The Auckland Star WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942. GERMANY AND EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 237, 7 October 1942, Page 2

The Auckland Star WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1942. GERMANY AND EUROPE.

T rn ' ''*" n)• in | M'iiph■ have been favoured lately with speeches by Hitler, Ivihbcntrop, Goering .nnl Goebbels, and if they are dutiful Germans "icy should now know what In believe. They arc to believe, first, that ihe luissian campaign will mihii end, secondly, that the Wehrmacht will be able i o di a I wiili Britain; thirdly, that their Government intends, ■Mid has begun to " <>iK,tll i.Europe, including European Russia, for the advantage of Cnnmny. so that they need never fear defeat. There '• '>< >tlllll cr .-.urpri.-ing in this line of propaganda, Ever since their first

1 ""'ltii'st in Europe the Germans have been systematically plundering l ' ll ' "•"••'ipii-d ((Mini lies, and all their people have been able to observe. 1,1 f-l'aie. till' short-term benefits. Now their armies have < >ci ni>i. 11 <-m:rmoii.. territories in Russia, and it is being promised that these, too, win yield their natural riches for the benefit of Germany. benefit, are received, and their continuance assured, the 111■ 111 will lie able lo live in comfort, and invite their enemies to '' r 1 ' European possessions—if they can! It is an attractive pio.,peet, and the German leaders must think it a great pity that a few , t iibboru facts continue to obtrude and mar it.

. 1 "! 1,1(1 hat realisation of the German dream of a German'!i' 1 I'ui ope depends ultimately on the acquiescence of the peoples who , ue to be dominated. These show few signs of acquiescence and how could they? I, is all very well for Goering to say'that "whoever i >0 " ina ; v bc surc <*rmans will not"; but as his colleague Goebbels has been quick to apprehend, that assurance, so comforting to Germans will not comfort, the peoples of the occupied territories If German domination means starvation for them, they can have no reason Ihn '(Wn n K ' ln P ns tn , ensu . re a ( ' ern, an victory. The second fact is that (,e in any s enemies have long been fully aware of her ambition not merely to conquer Europe, but to'subdue it. and exploit it for the Mcat.ei glory of the Herrenfolk. That, is why thev went to war with Germany, and that is why they arc still at war with her, and, despite a Jong series ot disastrous reverses, more determined than ever before o frustrate her purposes. Moreover, since the Germans Invaded Russia fhe.v have a new and most powerful "nemv, the United States Their n^ C n° r ' lspos , inK nuickfy of Russia has long since been disappointed, n™L, n r VV v V T Pven lf thpy fk> pi'ivc the Russians of offensive powei, and are able themselves to turn west again, thev must, there meet, not Britain alone, but Britain and the United States. That cer'mpl.'cations. the German leaders attempted to belittle, i ji ,V T 1 know it cannot be disposed of by speeches. Just now there disappointment that Britain and tho I'nited States have not been able to bring their strength to bear against Germany; but. it will be brought 3 u i cer, f in, y of , if - rai : sr * a huge question mark after all German prophecies of what they will be able to do when and if thev succeed in crippling Russia. ' ' *