THE NEW GERMANY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 7

THE NEW GERMANY

to mr rme* or the Sir—Much has appeared in the newspapers about Germany, Hitler, and ihe Naiis. Whether in editorial or in letters m the correspondence j columns, the tone is always either j downright denunciatory or lightly j ccoffins- Events which would pass; ;. ea diiv enough in our own country i 'o held i:p to ridicule and infamy j when they occur in Germany. Re- j cent!"'' a psraaraph stated that some j English Fascists held one of their { gibers down while others beat and j kicked him and broke hi- teeth. This, i '.vhether true or not. excited no comment: but had it been alleged to have ! occurred across the Channel, it would I have beer, cited as another instance of | German "{rightfulness." I Was the persecution 01" the Jews j realh' so terrible as the cable news j •would have us believe? Or is Germany being blamed as a whole? Are 60000.000 people being blamed for the | headstrong and precipitate acts of a j few irresponsible.-; who were carried awa v by 'their enthusiasm? It seems to rr.e that a few isolated instances of brutality have been exaggerated until thev colour the entire German question. This sort of thine; happened during the war. when we were told that the Germans cut off the hands c>f Belgian children. I made enquiries about this, but could find no grounds for the statement. In fact, the inhabitants of Bruges, which was occupied for the greater part of the war, told me the Germans denied themselves niilk so that the Belgian children might have what there was. We were not told about this particular brand of '•(rightfulness." Passing through Bavaria, the early ttronehold of the Nazis, and southern Germany during the height of the Jewish persecution. I saw nothing unusual. Everything was peaceful and orderly. The people were the sotil of kindness. I spent a night at the Nazi headquarters in Lorrach. and a finer lot of chaps I never wish to meet. The hemes of* the peasants in the Black Forest are models of cleanliness and the homely atmosphere is all pervading. Some of them read the English papers, and it puzzles them why the English world will not leave them alone, or at least try to understand them. Asain and again I was asked: ••But why do they "say these things about us?"

I! is not until the scales of bias and bigotry have beer; shod and tlie German is met. not a? a German but a? a man. that anyone can hope to come to a true estimate. Instead of sneering denouncing. and Generally showing our lack of intelligent sympathy and undersfandinc. vre should be watching this German movement with I'ie mo.-', intense interest. It is something s'unend'Ui?. and it is fine. The German youth are rallying around their :eaa'cr and crying out against the unfairness of the lingering blot which vas cast on them by the domineering Prussian. The;.' are battling gamely to liti their country from the morass

into which it was cast, the morass of and misery. And they'll do it. All honour to them and to Herr Hitler, who has brought about the mc?t bloodless revolution of all time and has surpassed even Bismarck by linking up the different states into an united' Germany under one leader. His intellect, energy, and .cenius are leading not only Germany but the ■v-'nole" white world: only most of us are bi'4 enough to admit it.— . YOUrS ' C:C ' r JUGEXD. I March in. \