Ex-Officers Oppose Use Of Germans In West Defence
(N.Z.P.A.— Reuter—Copyright.) (10 a.m.) LONDON, April 2 The former German officer, MajorGeneral Otto Remer—the man who foiled the 1944 bomb plot against Hit-ler-today condemned Mr. Churchill's proposal for Western Germans to join in a combined defence system. “Wo Germans consider ourselves too valuable to be used as cannon fodder.” he said.
General Remer. who was promoted for disclosing information on the bomb Dlot. is a leading member of the violently nationalistic Socialist State Party-
General Remer was not alone in dismissal ; Mr. Churchill’s proposal Criticisms from other former officers included: Lieutenant Herbert Ritter, now chairman of the Right Socialist German Workers' Party in Hamburg "It is dangerous for the Germans to talk of remilitarisation.’’
Herr Rudolf Buse. leader of the West German Old Soldiers' Association said: “Our skins are 100 dear to sell for anyone but our own people.” The only good word came from Herr Karl Schlumboom, chairman -of the Rightist German Conservative Party. “Mr. Chm chili’s plan for a united Europe with Germany facing the East can be successful only if Germany is armed.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23219, 3 April 1950, Page 7
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