TRAINING AS TERRORISTS

Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 5

TRAINING AS TERRORISTS

FORTY THOUSAND YOUNG NAZIS LONDON, Feb. 28. Himmler will lead the Nazi terrorists in Germany after the war. says the Moscow newspaper ' Pravda.' Second in command will be Hitler's present deputy. Martin Bormann. The organisation will be staffed, bv speciallyselected Nazis. Forty thousand vouth<; are passing through special- " Adolf Hitler Schools " to equip them for the work. Some Nazis are going into prisons and concentration camps or are being placed on Gestapo black lists in an attempt to persuade the Allies th thev are anti-Nazis.

Correspondents in Allied-occupied parts, of Germany say that " teen " age boys, former members of the Hitler Youth organisation, have already formed " nuisance gangs." In files of thc_ Allied military Government staffs their deeds are classed at. " juvenile delinquency." They arc thieving, defacing notices, and drilling holes in the petrol tanks of Allied motor vehicles. At Stopst, a place near Aachen, 20 miles behind the Allied battle line, an explosion caused by boys sent flames 50ft into the air. Allied officials say the hoys' escapades have frightened derman civilians, but have done little damage.