HITLER’S GRAND STRATEGY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24801, 15 February 1946, Page 5

HITLER’S GRAND STRATEGY

THROUGH RUSSIA AND AFRICA NUREMBERG EVIDENCE NUREMBERG, Feb. 13. Hitler planned to seize Gibraltar with the aid of Spain some time in 1941. This was disclosed in a captured German Naval Staff document dated August. 1941, outlining Hitler’s proposed list of conquests, which She Russian prosecutor (Mr Zorya) to-day submitted to the war crimes tribunal. Hitler expected to dispose of Russia in lightning thrusts. He then planned to pass down through Turkey, whether she agreed or not, and develop twin drives to Persia and Egypt through Syria and Palestine. The German forces in North Africa would at the same time be strengthened for an all-out effort about the middle of September to smash the Australian garrison holding out in Tobruk and then drive into Egypt from the west. Commenting on the document, Mr Zorya said that it would have been car-

lied out if the Red Army had not stopped the Fascist aggressors. Then, pointing an accusing finger at the prisoners, Mr Zorya declared: “The Red Army not only withstood and arrested , a Fascist aggression, but, together Tvnh the Allied armies, brought Hitlers Germany to a complete catas“■°Phe and the Fascist war criminals to the dock.”

. Soviet prosecutor, Mr x'OKrovsky. introduced a report by Mr ■Molotov on German treatment of Red Prisoners. It said: “Some Red soldiers had their arms and eet nailed to stakes and five-pointed v„, rs . c V t on their stomachs with red?a°Jv knives - oth ers were tied to two oks, and their bodies drawn apart, the cold weather began, the Hitrubers not only stripped the oiothes from dead Soviet soldivested wounded men of naked .? lothes> ieaving them stark