HITLER'S RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 8

HITLER'S RECORD.

REVOLUTION PRAISED. FREEDOM FROM EXCESSES. A UNITED NATION. (By the Former German CROWX PRINCE WILHEIAL) In dealing with all that has been happening in Germany siiW.: the-national awakening, a large section of the foreign Press has adopted an attitude that brings back to my mind the worst days of war-time agitation. As in those days, it does not hesitate to misrepresent the facts, print stories that are pure inventions and even publish deliberate falsehoods. Although one might possibly find such an attitude of the world Press during the war explicable and understandable on grounds that it was an effective means for inflicting psychological and moral damage upon the opponent, one is surely right in supposing that to-day, 15 years after the war ended, there is no further call for it. It was with satisfaction that one noted a change for the better had taken place in the 14 post-war years in a major part of the Press of the outside world. Yet, of a sudden, this has ceased to be the- case, and a big section of the world Press has simply discarded all its sense for fairness for the sake of a" anti-German campaign on the lines, of war-time propaganda. The reason _ foi this has been provided by the victoi ious advent to power of the NationalSocialist movement at the beginning of the present year. Forces of Destruction.

Those very forces which, through the systematic agitation carried 011 throughout the war, undermined the powers of national resistance, which were responsible for the dictation of the ruthless Peace of Versailles, which bled the nation white by resorting to misguided economic notions, to corruption, a iage for profit-making and partisanship ot the worst kind, and which finally sought to destroy all foundations of loyalty, honour, piety and liberty, have now been suddenly robbed >of _ their potency and done away with entirely. If this goal has been pursued with an energy that knows neither fear 1101 favouritism, and with the most relentless logic, it merely serves to to that profound moral sense and feeling of responsibility with which the leading man has been able to imbue a United Germany. How otherwise could an improvement in the unbearable condition!-, in Germany have been brought about? llaybe misunderstandings have occurred, and maybe there have been certain isolated cases of excesses, which nobody would for a moment try to excuse, but these are unavoidable in the course of a movement of such a profound and incisive character as that through which Germany is now passing. It would be falsifying the picture to draw general conclusions from these quite isolated instances. 011 the contrary, I am iirnily convinced that world hi.*ory can show'no example of a revolution so e'evoid of all those excesses that usually accompany revolutions, so devoid of bloodshed and any violation of the laws of the land, so assured of its aim, so final in its purpose and so rapid-in its culmination, comparable in any way to that which took place in Germany last January and whose achievements can to-day be regarded as completely assured. This fact cannot bo banisliad by disparaging reports in foreign newspapers, nor by that system of "atrocity tales" which are all too well known from tlio days of the world war.

Moral Justification. If ever a revolution found its moral justification in the kind of means it employed, it is the German revolution of 1D33. The two men whose names will go down in history as having been responsible for this development, President von Hindenberg and Chancellor Hitler, have earned the gratitude of the German people for all time. The overwhelming majority of the German people knows that, and is following their leadership, solid and prepared to make any sacrifice. It is my conviction that, apart from a small minority of those who will never learn, the whole nation feels at one with this movement, which is to-day uarching on irresistibly and victoriously towards its goal. And what is more, I believe the time is not far off when, beyond the frontiers of Germany, throughout the whole civilised world, the praiseworthy work which Adolf Hitler has done for civilisation and for European culture by freeing Germany from Communism will be understood and acknowledged.