BITTER BONDAGE

Evening Star, Issue 23725, 5 November 1940, Page 8

BITTER BONDAGE

GERMANY’S “ NEW ORDER " RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, November 3. A forecast of the German “ new European order ” as it affects nonGermans is sometimes given in speeches of the less important party officials. While the Nazi leaders are endeavouring by vague phrases to lull the apprehensions of peoples whom they hope to dominate, other members of the party, who, after all, are officials who carry out the policy, let it be seen what a German-controlled Continent really entails. Thus the propaganda leader, Herr Maul, expressing his views on the proper relations which should exist between the Germans and the Poles, said, according to a report in the ‘ Litzmanu Straedter Zeitnng ’ on October 28, while addressing a large Hitler Youth gathering in Park Lodge: “ We must have proper relations with other peoples. Here, first, are the Poles. They have become too insolent, not because they are courageous, but because the Germans are so decent that they interpret decency as silliness. Therefore, we must restore order and be masters of this land and masters of these streets. Are we getting these considerations and nobody else? Here we must maintain a special attitude. A German in this country is never a private man; every German striding through this country is one of Adolf Hitler’s messengers, and must behave accordingly.” PERMANENT SERVITUDE, Hitler’s new European order was the subject of a speech to-day by the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, Mr Dingle Foot, who pointed out that the concentration camp and the Gestapo would accompany Nazis wherever they went, and they would suppress freedom as it had already been suppressed in Germany itself. But the latest developments, said Air Foot, went beyond even that. In occupied countries Nazi methods aim at reducing whole nations to conditions of permanent servitude and bitter bondage, which was comparable only to the lot of the Israelites when they were captive in Egypt. They had one advantage dver the new slave race of Germany, for at least the Israelites had plenty to eat. “ These things are no passing phenomena,” he continued. “ The German leaders have made it clear that never again, if they have their way, will other peoples of Europe be permitted the same standard of life or even the same quantity of clothes or food as the dominant German race.” SUPERIORITY COMPLEX, Mr Foot pointed out that Dr Ley himself declared a short time ago: “ A lower race needs less clothes, Jess food, and less culture than a higher race.” Hitler was turning the methods ,by which he occupies countries to an exact science, and although'in each country the method was different, the effect was the same. In Denmark, Mr Foot pointed out, an enormous credit balance had been built up in favour of the Danes, which resulted in great supplies leaving Denmark and nothing coming back. French shopkeepers were compelled to accept a greatly overvalued mark, while in Belgium great numbers of cattle were slaughtered and sent to Germany. These things were also not intended to be temporary, said Mr Foot, and he cited the declaration of Dr Funk that the, new economic order must ensure Germany maximum consumption and the biggest possible standard of living. These advantages, Air Foot pointed out, were to accrue only to Germany. The “ New Order,” he said, meant systematic exploitation for the great majority of Europeans, and he concluded : “ It follows that in this war we are fighting to resist not only a monstrous evil and tyranny, but also deliberate and perpetual impoverishment of millions of men.”