GERMAN-U.S. PRESS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21756, 4 July 1945, Page 4

GERMAN-U.S. PRESS

ALLIED POLICY ATTACKED ATROCITIES MINIMISED WASHINGTON, June 13. Since Germany’s surrender certain German-language newspapers here have opened up with blasts at Allied unity, pi'otesting against a harsh peace and playing down the atrocities. The New York Neue Volkszeitung appealed to all German-speaking Americans to rally to the support of Germany. It declared .(.hat the danger was now no longer that Germany might grow too strong, but that she might sink too low.

The paper described the present occupation of Germany as chaos which, if not remedied, it said, would soon destroy the Allied goal to “democratise” Germany. It also printed a leading article protesting against the showing of films of tho atrocity camps, stating that when the 13-year-old Americans applauded the capture and killing of Germans it was “degradation to our civilisation.” One of the main lines of criticism is Russia, and the paper speculated on the possibility of a split among tho Allies, playing up recent Russian diplomatic moves. The Milwaukee Deutsche Zeitung suggests that Hitler was not killed, but taken to Moscow to instruct “Moody Joe” in liquidating his political adversaries. The Detroiter Abendpost. Chicago's Abendpost, and other papers write in similar vein. The Neue Volkszeitung speculates on the likelihood of an Anglo-American war against Russia. Britain, France and other of the United Nations are frequently denounced, but less violently than Russia.

From May 10 to May IG, the week in which the German atrocities were publicised by the American papers, the Cleveland Wachtcr and Anzeigcr did not mention them, nor did (lie None Vollcszeitimg. Denunciation of Mussolini’s killers was common.