WHERE IS HITLER ?

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1944, Page 5

WHERE IS HITLER ?

HIMMLER AS SUBSTITUTE (Rec. 10.25 a.m.fLONDON, Nov. 6. ' Another big Nazi occasion has passed without a word oi sign from Hitler, and with the Gestapo Chief, Himmler, taking the limelight. Hitler’s activities were mentioned from Berlin to-day for the first time since September 19 The German News Agency reported that Hitiei on October 26 personally received Colonel-General von Blaskowitz Commander of the southern section of the Western Front. Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the incornoration into the Reich of that pan of Poland which the Germans call'Warteland, and as the Fuehrer's deputy, Himmler was given a reception previously accorded only to Hitler himself. Regimented ranks of Nazism cheered him to the echo when he declared: We Germans will reconquer all the territories we have lost in the east and sooner or later you will again advance and re-take the territory the Reich needs. Germany has passed her crisis. The past four months will be regarded in the history of the war as the most decisive test of whether the German people were worthy to win this long war. This test has been successfully passed.' The Warsaw rising has been-crushed, the Bolshevik putsch in Slovakia is drawing to an end, and in Hungary a change ol Government has brought the Nationalists' forces to.the lead. The demand of the hour is to fight so that it must gradually dawn on our enemies that, to continue the onslaught against Germany is bound to mean national suicide for themselves.” The Germans are perplexed that Hitler should have permitted Himmler, who has been apeing him in manner and speech, to go on the air to call German manhood into the Volkssturm. They are noticing that Himmler and Goebbels have controlled everything since the bomb 'plot. GERMAN HOME GUARD. LONDON, November 6. A “Daily Telegraph” correspondent at Stockholm says that, according to a German underground ’ report, Himmler has arrested Scheppmann, to whom Hitler entrusted the training of the Volks Sturm, and Scheppmann is now in the hands of the Gestapo for complicity in the attempt to assassinate Hitler on June 1.

The German radio, however, announced on October 26 that Scheppmann was suffering from a nervous breakdown. It added “he needs a change of air.” But at that very time according to the underground report, Scheppmann was almost dying under torture, to which Himmler’s agents were subjecting him.