"GERMAN COLONIES"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 5

"GERMAN COLONIES"

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' NAZI ENCYCLOPAEDIA

All: former German colonial territories, although lost in the World War and now administered under League of Nations mandates, by Allied nations, are still considered "German colonies" by present-day Germany. This is revealed in the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia, the latest edition of which is the first to appear sirice the Nazi regime came into power four years ago, states the "New York Times.' 1 The "New Brockhaus" ■will be printed in four volumes, the first one, Ato E, having just been published. , In it, under the chapter "Deutschland," a detailed outline and descrip-tion'-of the Nazi, administration is given. A special section is dedicated to the former overseas possessions of the Reich, listing each of the territories as "German colony under mandate." The introductory paragraph says: "The possession of raw material sources abroad is essential to supplement our economic system." MAP OF "RACES" PRINTED. There also appears a map of Central Europe in colour, classifying each nation" according to its racial origin, peoples listed under "Germanic races" are: < Germans, ; Netherlanders and Flemings, Englishmen, Frisians, Danes, and -Swedes. . ' . . '. There 'is also a new. issue of the •'Language Brockhaus," with a new = section .on "How' to. Germanise . the foreign • language word." Another German encyclopaedia, Meyer's Lexicon, popularly known in Germany as the Big and the Small Meyer, is likewise to make a new appearance. Its publisher, the Bibliographic Institute of Leipzig, announces that the new edition will represent a work "renewed in all parts for the benefit of the national Socialist Germany and permeated with the spirit of the new time." .... A remarkable change is presented by the internationally renowned Buchmann, a collection of famous quotations. Its new "popular edition," edited by Dr. Valerian Tornius, has been reduced to 315 pages and its contents have been. co-ordinated according to Nazi principles. Originally, almost every famous name the world over was represented in the volume, covering 2000 years in history, literature, and sciences. The present work contains a chapter on "Sayings that have gained popujarity in the Third Reich." The expression, "The Third Reich," is listed under "Historic Quotations," and is attributed to a writer, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, whose main work bore that title. He died in 1923. Dietrich Eckart, who died in 1923, is credited with "Germany, Awaken!" the slogan of Nazism. QUOTATIONS FROM HITLER. From Hitler's book "Mem Kampf" only four quotations are printed, but quotations from his speeches fill an entire page. Of other Nazi chieftains, Dr. Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister, and Dr. Robert Ley, Labour Front leader, are quoted. Alfred Rosenberg,. Nazi philosophical chief, gets credit for the expression ''blood and soil." His book, "The Myth of the Twentieth Century," which, for its anti-Christian attitude, was banned by the Vatican, is designated as a classic. Knaur's Conversational Lexicon dedicates an entire column in its new edition to Adolf Hitler, one-quarter of a column to Mussolini, and three lines to Stalin. National Socialism and its ideology is explained on two full pages in special print. Communism receives half a column, but is referred to only in phases where it was defeated by Nazism. Professor Albert Einstein is listed as "Jewish physicist, deprived of his German citizenship because, of-his antagonistic attitude towards Germany."