GERMAN TERRITORY

Grey River Argus, 10 May 1945, Page 5

GERMAN TERRITORY

Portions Demanded BY NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES. (Received May 9, 11.40 p.m.). SAN FRANCISCO. May 8. As a result of the German surrender, some of the European delegations to U.N.C.1.0. .have announced territorial claims against the Reich, although this matte.--- is not one for the U.N.C.1.0., says an Associated Press correspondent. The Netherlands is claiming the Frisian province. The Belgians claim a small strip along the Belgian-German border. (Rec. 11.40), LONDON, May. 9. The present Warsaw Government wants East Prussia. They have raised the question of extending Poland’s western frontier to the Oder River, including Stettin. France demands all of Germany west of the Rhine. It is believed that Southern Schleswig and Northern Frisia may be awarded to Denmark as a move to internationalise the Kiel Canal. Many Allied sources believe Germany will lose Heligoland, and Memelland doubtless will be returned, to Lithuania. . South Africa has served notice that she desires the West Africa mandate terminated, and the area to be incorporated in the Union. JOINT OCCUPATION OF BERLIN (Received 11.40 p.m. May 9) SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 The French " delegation to the U.N.C.1.0. has announced there is now a joint Four Power occupation of Berlin. It awaits only the delivery by the Russians of travel orders and instructions to British, American, and French forces. At present the plans are reported to provide for Russia to administer the central and eastern sections, France the northern section, and the British and Americans the -south-eastern and western sections.

Hitler’s Mountain Home HOST OF LOOTED TREASURES VAST WINE AND FOOD STOCKS. (Rec. 8.30) LONDON, May 9. Hitler’s mountain home still contains priceless art and liteiaiy treasures looted from European nations says a “Times” correspondent at Berchtesgaden. Innumerable rooms of the great underground labyrinth, cut into rock, hold thousands of tons of food and a vast stock of the best wines from all parts ot Europe. The whole place was captured without a fight. One huge air raid shelter fortress looked capable Of resisting a siege for years. An interesting feature of Hitler’s library was a collection of gramophone records containing records of all Hitler’s speeches. In addition there are the finest musical works by the world’s greatest orchestras. There is rubble underfoot which makes it unlikely that, much of the collection is intact. Amid dust and mud there* lie thousands of yards of cinema films, showing Hitler in conference or in execution of his opponent.. There are hundreds of passages underground, with kitchens, pantries, storerooms, bedrooms and livingrooms stretching for miles. The whole is air-conditioned, electrically lit, and inter-connected by telephone. The American Third Infantry Division has handed it over to the French Second Armoured Division. . There are enough food, blankets, clothes and medical supplies to solve the feeding problem for thousands of slave labourers. There was a viewroom, with a great window looking towards the Austrian Alps, across a valley. It was demolished by the bombing.

HITLER ALIVE DR SCHACHT’S OPINION (Rec. 11.10) LONDON, May 9. Doctor Schacht, former German Finance Minister and Reichsbank President, said that he believed that Hitler was ■ still alive. Dr Schacht was captured yesterday on the northern Italian border. Dr Schacht told a British United Press correspondent that he had never been a Nazi. He added: “Hitler never took my advice. He never understood money, or the power of money. He was sane in some things, but not in others. Pie is a genius, but an evil and diabolical genius.” • LONDON, May 6. Major Erwin Giesing, the doctor who examined Hitler after the bomb attempt last July, and regularly since to February 15, believes it was most unlikely that Hitler died from a cerebral haemorrhage, as Himmler suggested, says “The Times” correspondent in Bavaria. Giesing said: “Fie was sound in the heart and lungs, and above average in health for a 58-year-old. His condition could not have deteriorated in -ten weeks as to make a cerebral haemorrhage possible.” , , . . Giesing’s account of the bomb incident shows that the course of history might have been different if July 20, 1944 had not been a hot day at Hitler’s headquarters, causing the windows to be wide open so that the blast, from the bomb dissipated. Giesing probably is the only man who could positively identity .Hitler’s body. He has X-ray photographs of Hitler’s teeth and ears, and knows the exact position of the scars caused by the bomb. When Giesing was summoned to examine Hitler and 21 members of the General Staff injured in the bomb incident he noticed Hitler was unable to hear the higher harmonics of violins in the overture to Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” His impaired hearingmade it difficult to control his voice and he spoke loudly. Giesing found ■that Hitler’s ear-drums had been perforated by the explosion, which tore his trousers to shreds and caused superficial injuries to his hands and legs. When Giesing last saw Hitler he noticed the Fuehrer had lost some weight and was pale. Flitler said the war was going badly and added that if the worst happened, he would fall leading his troops in battle. Giesing asked whether he should evacuate from Dusseldorf. Hitler assured him they were safe there, because the w r est wall was invulnerable. Giesing commented: “To Flitler everything was possible. That was his and Germany’s undoing.”