UNDER NAZI HEELS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 2 May 1941, Page 4

UNDER NAZI HEELS

EVIDENCE FROM GERMAN SOURCKS.

.Nazi blandishments no longer cloak tlio violence of Hitler's plan to enslave the world. The New Order in its true character is revealed in the German Press and in statements by Nazi leaders.

"National Socialist ideas of race and respect for other nations make Germain' particularly well-fitted for the task of colonial administration." — (Deutsche Allgeincine Zcitung, 29-12-40.) "There are no different kinds of honour, there is but one honour, the honour of being a German in the Germany of Adolf Hitler. Our strength derives from our blood. The German nation has forsworn all thought of class; it knows no distinctions. There is but one distinction alone; that between Germans and criminals."." — (I>r Lev addressing the Judges of the Labour'Front. Her Angriff, 22-7 J-38.) "In an article explaining the application of the German penal laws to the occupied Polish territories. Dr Neubauer stated that in general the basis of the National-Socialist penal code is that the weaker serves the stronger and that one r.eoplc leads all other peoples dwelling in one geographical and geo-political space-unit.— (Litzmannstaedter Zeitung, 27-11-40.) "The position of the Poles or of the negroes in the colonic.* must be considered, under criminal law, from the point of view of the supremacy of the German people."'- (Reichsminister Frank, at a congress of the Academy of German Law. Munich. 22-11-40.)

"The negro is, so to speak, a slave by nature, and the whole colonial v way of life in .East Africa is based on this exclusively subservient role of his."— (Muenchncr Neueste Nachrichten, 28-11-40. summarising ideas expressed by Gerhard Nobel in his book of essays "Fire and .Water.")

PRACTICAL A IMPLICATION. "The Axis Powers actually control the territory they wish to organic, and thereiore can make a concrete beginning with their new order." — id raniaalter Zeitung, 20-11-40.) "A German soldier killed a Norwegian sailor wiin his bayonet •at Molde when the sailor made remarks against him when he was with -a Norwegian girl 111 tne town park. the German soldier was not punished. Three thousand people, many of whom had come from avur, attended the luxieral."'—(Nationen. Oslo, 17-12-40.) "A Dutchman threw a beer-glass at a German soldier in a caie. seriously injuring him. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, three young Dutchmen, under the- impulse of enmity to the German forces, took the caps' of German officers from a restaurant cloakroom and tore them to pieces. Thev were sentenced to 17 months' imprisonment. The German Court stated: 'Certainly a mild sentence lor this great insult'."— (Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden, Amsterdam, 21-12-40.) "A bargee Irom Rotterdam said to a hawker of the official N.CS.B. (Ger-man-backed Dutch Nazis) newspaper: '1 won't buy papers from the Ix'trayers of my country.' He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and placed on probation for two years."—(Nieuue Rotterdamsche Coura'nt, 13-12-40.)

"When two German soldiers emerged from a butcher's shop in Oslo carrying a parcel of pork, they were attacked by women wiio were oueueing up. unable to get anything. Nine women were arrested."—(Goeteborgs Handcls-och-Sjoefarts-Tidning. 27-12-10.)