STOP AT NOTHING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 11, 13 January 1940, Page 8

STOP AT NOTHING.

HITLER'S OBJECTS. A GIGANTIC ATTACK. UNBELIEVABLY BLOODY AND GRIM. A study of the working of Adolf Hitler's mind in the pre-war days when ho was planning Germany's campaign of aggression lias been provided by' Dr. Herman Rauschning, former Nazi President of Danzig. In 1111 article written for a London journal ho recalls a gathering at Hitler's home when the Fuehrer talked with sonic of his followers. Wo sat, writes Dr. Eausehning, on the rather narrow verandah of Wftehenfeld House in the Obcrsalzberg. Hitler's magnificent Alsatian sheepdog lay at his feet. It was a magical August morning. Albert Forster was there, and Rudolf Hess and others. We spoke of the result of t>lio war, and the tragical turn of all Gorman victories. "Wo shall not capitulate—no, never," Hitler exclaimed. "We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us—a world in flames.? "Those Fools of 1914." A young leader of the S.A. broke the silence by saying that it was the superior armament of our enemies that had brought about the unhappy conclusion of the last war. "Who says I'm going to start a war like those fools in 1014 ?" cried Hitler. . "Arc not all our efforts bent to preventing this? Most people have 110 imagination." His face twisted into an expression of contempt. "What is the object of war, Forster? To make the enemy capitulate. If he does, I have the prospect of wiping him out. Why should I demoralise him by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways? "The enemy people must be demoralised and ready to capitulate, driven into moral passivity, before military action can even be thought of. ]

"Mental confusion, contradiction oi ccling, indecisiveness, panic: these arc mr weapons. Do you know the docrine of the coup d'etat? Study it Then you will know our task. The Moment to Strike. "I shall never start a war without the icrtainty that a demoralised cnemj Aill succumb to the first stroke of i single gigantic att<iek." Hitler's eyes Look 011 a fixed stare, and he beiran t< sliout. "When the enemy is demoraliset from within, when he stands on tin brink of revolution, when social unresi threatens—that is the right moment. "A single blow must, destroy him Serial attacks, stupendous in tlieii mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage i-ssassination from within,- the murdei )f leading men, overwhelming attack! m all , weak points in the enemy') lefence, sudden attacks, all in the sam< second, without regard for reserves 01 losses: that is the war of the future i gigantic all-destroying blow. "Perhaps we shall introduce bactork it the height of the war, at the momem .vhen the powers of resistance of th< memy are beginning to fail. "I do not consider consequences. ! lo not play at war. I shall not allov myself, to be ordered ab6ut by 'com nanderS-in-chief.' I shall taakc war. ! shall determine the correct moment fo: iftfcack. "There is only one most favonrabli tioroent. I shall await' it—with iroi lctermination, I slip,ll not miss. it. ! jliall bend all 111 f energies towar< wringing it about. That is my mission [f 1 succeed in that then I havi ;ho right to send youth to its death. ! •iliall have saved us many lives thei is could be saved." Hitler again. His next word: Mime like a peroration. "I shall shrink from nothing.) N< ?o-citlled internaUpmil law, no agree nents will prevent me from making us< )f any advantage that.offers. ' "The next war will be unbelievably jlooily and grim. lint the most inliumai ,var, one which makes no distinctioi jetweeu military and civilian com xitants, will at the same time be tin kindest, because it will be the shortest. 1