NAZI PROGRAMME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 9

NAZI PROGRAMME.

IMPRIMATUR ON CAPTIVES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK., Sept. 22. The New York Times correspondent at Bydgoszcz'says that, while the German armies still guard the conquered territory to the eastward to prevent the outbreak of' hostility amoiig the population, supplementary armies are already relieving them for the front line and taking over the organisation of these regions for the service of Greater Germany. The supplementary forces consist mainly of police and labour service corps and Nazi Party groups, with innumerable civilians tor Governmental and economic duties.

They are working under the double motto of reconstruction and Gerinanisation, German names replacing. Polish. Commissioners control ships and businesses. German is both the official and the prevailing language, and all children, whether German or Polish, are attending German language schools, which the Germans claim are the best nationalisation agencies. The schools and German Youth organisations are expected to kill the Polish national consciousness within a generation. in justice to the Germans, states the New York Times correspondent from Bromberg, it must be said that the Poles improved little the former German territory they absorbed after the World War.

Pioneer regiments and labour services are rapidly completing emergency repairs to permit of the economic life of the country resuming its course. In contrast ivith the south of Poland the war damage in the former German territories is slight. The most serious handicap is the destruction of the bridges. ■" . '