PATTERN OF NAZI CONQUEST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 2

PATTERN OF NAZI CONQUEST

. j Germany could have won Europe -| in 1939 and v it r d it into a con - I tinental empire with the consent of 1 j the overwhelming mass of its peoples ;| of all nationalities had Germany 3 j been capable of two things: conquered ng England in that year and re- ; i training from the immediate ex E , | ploitation of the conquered peoples. . !And i". might even have been possibleel without the first ingredient, for the f ordinary common people of Europe r were ripe for unification into one e j political system in the summer of 0 1939 as they have not been ripe for - ! unity since the days of Charlemagne. r It could have been done if Germany had not proved essentially German "j in its moment of triumph and the Germany army had not b.‘en only the s weapon of Nazi economic and nae ! tional imperialism. But in its moment of historic op- - portunity Germany did prove Gera man and the German army did prove d to be only an agency by which Nazism was trying to bend the other filiations of Europe into a scheme of domination which had for its objective the subordination of “lesser breeds” to the material comfort of the I German Volk. The opportunity was lost. — (Joseph C. Harsch, Berlin correspondent of the "Christian Science | Monitor,” Now in U.S.A.)