HITLER REGIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 8

HITLER REGIME.

"THE ONLY WAY OUT." i (To the Editor.) That a victorious Hohenzollern Germany would have imposed peace terms quite as harsh as those of Versailles is beside the question; Nazi-ism is not the- spiritual heir of Kaiser Wilhelm's regime. Again, it is worthy of note that if it had not been for the, Marxist revolution of 1917 a much fairer peace than that of Versailles might quite conceivably have been accorded to Germany. "AntiFascist" goes on to speak of the" "genuine grievances" of the German people, but just how these grievances should in his opinion have been expressed he does not make quite clear. My argument is that an outburst of national resentment was rendered inevitable by the apathy of British and French politicians, and, further, that the only form this national revolt against Versailles could take was that of the Nazi movement. The Nationalists were bitter against the treaty but their extreme conservatism prevented them from gaining- the «mp?ort of the masses. The Republican parties, f.-om the People's party of Streaemann to the moderate Marxists or Social Democrats, had all been involved in the policy of submission to the Versailles slavery. The Communists were also out. of the question: they professed to hate the treaty, but to them its overthrow was to be part of the world proletarian revolution. In other words, wait until the sweet by-and-by when the Soviet Union should be strono- enough not merely to protect itself but also to give a helping hand to Communists elsewhere! The German Communist party was extremely pedantic and entirely subservient to Moscow and the good sense of the German worker rebelled against the unreality of its propaganda and its subjection to foreign influences. At the same time, hie social aspirations were outraged by the bureaucratic inactivity of the Social Democrats, who regarded themselves as the "physicians of an ailing capitalism." National Socialism was therefore the only way out. As for "Anti-Fascist's" allegations, it should be noted that the workers of the Saar were in closer touch with Germany than we are, that they heard all the atrocity tales that have reached us, and no doubt more into the bargain, and. finally, that 91 per cent of the Saarlanders deckled for union with Hitler's Germany, a pretty fair indication of the amount of faith they put in them. That wages are low is, on the other hand, true: rightly or wrongly, Hitler believes that it is desirable to ration out the work available among- as many as possible. It seems to be also true that THysstn helped to finance the Nazi party, but this merely meant that he despaired of the future of the Republic and preferred to see the Nazis in power rather than the Communists. An interesting Nazi countercharge to this is that the Bolsheviks were financed by such Jewish houses as Kuhn, Loeb and Company. PRO-NAZI.