NOT ALL NAZIS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12728, 28 April 1939, Page 6

NOT ALL NAZIS

GERMANS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA Events are moving fast in SouthWest Africa in the direction of dividing the naturalised Germans into two distinct groups —those who look towards Germany for political inspiration and those who accept their British citizenship and the Union nationality as a beacon to guide their political activities. The Deutscher Bund, which claims to represent all the naturalised Germans,, just now faces the reality that its claim is not justified. Another party, also comprising • flatm’alised Germans, has taken the field. This new party, called the Deutsche Partei, is openly opposing the Deutscher Bund. - The new party contends that the Deutscher Bund 'is subservient to Nazi Interests and that its policy has only resulted in strife and bitterness between Germans and South Africans in the territory. The new party is out to end this, and hopes to be able to co-operate extensively with the South Africans in the political, economic and social field. It remains to be seen whether sufficiently large numbers of naturalised Germans will come out into the open to support it.