EUROPEAN AFFAIRS

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1945, Page 5

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS

THE OCCUPATION < ' •< Allies in Berlin BOXER AS RE-EDUCATOR LONDON, June 25 The German Communist party nas re-emerged after a 12 years' underground struggle, seated an American oroadcaster from Moscow, who quoted tne Party's newspaper as saying: “The German Communist .Party opposed the introduction of the Soviet system. The realistic interests of the German people demand an anti-f ascist democratic Parliamentary Republic.” ’• - Nsxt Sunday the British, Canadian and American Control Commission columns will probraniy move from the posts on the West Elbe into Berlin.

From N.A.A.F.I. Headquarters at Bad Salzuflen, on Monday, a reconnaissance party left to join the otner army advance units going to tne German capital, where they will tablish service clubs.

Max Schmeling, former heavyweight boxing champion, of tne world, is about to become a big time puolisner ana re-eaucaior of youth m the ways of democracy in postwar Germany with blessings ana encouragement of tne Aniea occupying forces which recognise in him a genuine anti-Nazi wno helped American prisoners in German camps. The “New York Sun's” Hamburg 'Correspondent, in reporting tnis, says: “Schmeling told me that practically tall Hitlerian youth literature was worthless, and tnere was a big field for the re-education of the youth towards a democratic outlook. Schmeling said: “As a patriotic German, I naturally hoped Germany would win the war, but, nevertheless. I realised we had to lose it in order to get rid of Nazism.” * The authorities have exempted Schmeling from the curfew regulations and have given him a petrol allowance to help him develop the publishing house. Frau Emmy Goering is seeking a divorce, says the newspaper “Tiamngen ", She claims there was never a real marriage between her and Goering. The wedding took place at Hitler's express order. She admits she had sympathy for Hermann but never liked him. ' DANISH GESTAPO AGENT LONDON, June 26. Max Pelving, one of Denmark’s worst criminals has been found working at Supreme Allied Headquarters. He was the most prominent Dane in the Gestapo. Many patriots were tortured and executed because of him. Pelving vanished after the German capitulation. Danes thought he had escaped until a partisan visited a section of the Supreme Allied Headquarters at Flemsburg, where he was astonished to see Pelving working as a departmental head. Pelving had tricked British authorities with forged identity papers. GERMAN ROCKET WEAPONS. I -•— REVELATION BY SCIENTISTS. (Rec. 5.5). LONDON, J’une 26. The thoroughness with which the Germans went about developing rocket weapons, and the hopes that they pinned on them in their campaign for world domination, were furtheir emphasised by revelations of 450 scientists who are interned in Bavaria. These scientists have now told the full story of Peenemunde, which was the German rocket research station' on the Baltic. Experiments began there even before the war, and eventually more than twelve thousand persons were working on plans ranging from anti-aircraft rockets to a rocket which would reach America. More than fifty millions sterling was spent on the station and equipment. In the centre of a dense forest, a model village, equipped with its own railway! system, was built for scientists and technicians. At the station there was the largest wind tunnel in the world, capable of developing wind speeds of two thousand miles per hour. It was proved in the tunnel that stratosphere projectiles could fly faster than sound. Peenemunde kept the secret until 1942, when the R.A.F. noticed valour trails left by rockets. A big raid followed and killed 750 workers, and several leading scientists. The production of the V-2 rocket, however, was not affected, but other experiments were set back six months. 270,000 FARMS TO BE CONFISCATED IN HUNGARY LONDON, June 25 Dr Benes, as President of Czechoslovakia in a sweeping- decree, ordered the confiscation of all farms and corporations in Czechoslovakia oelonging to Germans and Hungarians, and “traitors and collaborators of any nationality.” It is estimated that 270,000 small farms owned by Germans will be .affected.