ROSENBERG

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4

ROSENBERG

FOUND IN HOSPITAL

NOTORIOUS NAZI OFFICIAL . LONDON, May 20. A British patrol has found Alfred Rosenberg, the chief philosopher of I the Nazi Party, in hospital in the ! Flensberg area with a sprained ankle, (says the Associated Press correspondent with the 2nd Army. Alfred Rosenberg is one of the first —and worst—of the Nazi inner circle of Hitler's closest associates. The son of a shoemaker of German descent, born in Reval (Tallinn) on the Baltic in 1893, he was at the time of the last war a subject of the Tsar, who fled to Moscow when in 1917 the German army occupied Riga. In Moscow as a student of engineering he came across "The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion," and, fleeing before the Russian Revolution back to Germany, brought them to Munich, where he mcl Hess and Hitler, who embodied most of the ideas in "Mem Kampf" from the "Protocols." Rosenberg became the chief ideologist of Nazism, emphasising the doctrine of the "Master Race," "Lebensraum,." with its corollary of destruction of Jews and Slavs to make room for the "Herrenvolk." He wrote a biography of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the renegade Englishman, who was the mentor of the last Kaiser Wilhelrn II in the- First World War. Rosenberg supplied Hitler with Chamberlain's ideas,* and introduced him to the aged "racial philosopher" at Bay!reuth in 1923. Rosenberg worked for an Anglo-German-Italian alliance, and in December, 1931, went to London to see Ramsay Mac Donald and Stanley

Baldwin. He was described as "one of the best-dressed Germans" and himself paid a tribute to the British as "a nation without nerves, setting an example to the world." His mission failed, but he went again two years later to explain Germany's "peaceable" policy, as Hitler's private enyoy. Says a biographer of Hitler: "The sight of this morose figure, the living embodiment of Nazi race hatred," was too much for the British. He found a hostile Press and soon departed. In later years he became "spiritual adviser" to the Nazi regime, and must be held respbnsible for most of the worst features of their policy and its expression in action.