NAZI YOUTH

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1944, Page 5

NAZI YOUTH

"We Must Re-educate Them Or Fight Germany Again" CHILDREN BECOME FANATICS NEW YORK, Jan. 13. "Unless the United Nations destroy ■ the Nazi educational philosophy that trains children to be young fanatics, we will have to fight Germany again," said the British Ambassador to the United States, Viscount Halifax, in a speech at Cincinnati. „ , , "The Nazis nave spoiled and seduced a whole generation of German youth in the past 10 years, by education directed with the single purpose of producing the most efficient fighting machine that human ingenuity could produce. "The Nazis have bred a generation of voung fanatics, physically fit, but with their minds closed to all ideas outside their false and narrow pniloS °"lt y 'is idle to suppose that defeat itself will effect a miraculous, lasting conversion, or that the danger can be met by frontier adjustments, military occupations, or economic controls. We must destroy the evils at their roots. "Possibly the hardest part of our task will not be the elimination of what is false but the introduction of what is true."