POWER OF HITLER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2670, 15 September 1937, Page 8

POWER OF HITLER

RESPECT IN GERMANY OPPOSITION FROM BOLSHEVISTS ANHALT OFFICER’S VIEWS. The popularity of Hitler with the German people and their wholehearted belief in his sincerity and ability was stressed to a Taranaki Herald reporter by Herr Warncke, chief officer of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Anhalt, which was recently in port at New Plymouth.

Herr Warncke said that were it not for the rise to power of Hitler, Germany would be in the same position to-day as Spain was—torn by strife and civil war inspired by Bolshevist forces. The Germans did not want a war of any kind, but they were in a very strong position to resist Bolshevism, which was the most destructive force in the world to-day. It was because the Jews were such ardent pupils of Bolshevism that they were so unpopular in the Nazi regime, he stated, and said that much of the reports of Jewish persecution was exaggeration. As long as the Jews minded their own business and kept out of politics they were left entirely alone. It was only when they tried to become politically influential that they were expelled from the country.

He was convinced that the world a generation hence would regard Hitler as the saviour of the world for his stand against Bolshevism. ■ He was already held in this regard in Germany. There the people realised his worth and genuinely idolised him. Hitler was held in the same respect as the Kaiser had been. Would the people have given a common soldier such power unless they were convinced of his ability and genuineness ? he asked.

The speaker said that in Germany to-day the workers were very satisfied and there were no disputes over Wages and no strikes. He contrasted this with labour disputes and strikes in other parts of the world and ascribed the latter trouble to Bolshevistic influences.

Germany, he said, wanted to be friendly with every other Power, for apart from anything else they realised the white nations must stand together. The only thing preventing this was the Bolshevist influence in these other countries.