GERMANS ABROAD

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1939, Page 8

GERMANS ABROAD

BASIS OF NAZIS’ CLAIMS. About the middle of 1937 the Nazi Government published a list of “Germans living abroad”—in other words, German minorities. The figures in it do not agree with the minority figures supplied by the various countries concerned, for the reason that the Nazis have a habit of claiming larger groups than actually exist. The important point, however, is that the Nazis base their “bleeding frontiers” policy on these figures, and here they are: — Austria 6,500,000 Czechoslovakia . . 3.500,000 Switzerland .. .. 2,950,000 France with AlsaceLorraine .. . . 1,700,000 Poland with Silesia and Pomerania .. . , 1,150,000 Roumania . . . . 800,000 Jugoslavia .. . . 700,000 Hungary 600,000 Danzig 400,000 Luxemburg .. .. 290,000 Italy with South Tyrol 250,000 Belgium with EupenMalmedy . . .. 125,000 Lithuania with Memel 120,000 Latvia. 70,000' Denmark with North Schleswig .. . . 60,000 Total 19.215,000 But that is not the end. In addition to the European total the Nazis make the following world-wide claims: — North America . , 6.500,000 Central America. . . 3,300,000 South America .. 1.170,000 Africa 108,000 Asia. 25,000 Australia '. 90,000 Total 11,193,000 If the imagination could be stretched far enough to picture Hitler restoring all these people to the Fatherland, it would be found that he could populate Western Poland with approximately 20.000,000 Germans—after ousting the 15,000,000 or so Poles and Jews who are there to-day.