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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 November 1945, Page 5

Jodi described the Atlantic Wall as the greatest construction ever known It contained more than 2600 7.5 cm. guns, excluding anti-aircratt guns and artillery from divisions stationed there. There were also 2350 medium and heavy anti-personnel weapons, again excluding divisional equipment. Permanent positions were manned by 1,370,000 men. A total of 4.183,030 Germans were then fighting on the eastern front.

Jodi’s address showed that the Germans in 1943 over-estimated Allied strength, while the Allies under-esti-mated German strength. German intelligence reported that there were 54 divisions with various brigades in Britain, whereas there were actually about half that number. The Germans had 46 divisions manning the Western front, whereas the British intelligence estimate was 24 to 30 divisions.

Jodi listened without expression when Mr Aderman, after reading ex- i tracts from Jodi’s speech, said: “This i document identified Jodi fully with . the Nazis. It shows he is no mere sold- j Mr Aderman said the German plans for aggressive war started soon after: the first World War. Despite their modest origin and the rather fantas- ■ tic nature of the Nazi Party and the j fact that its rise to world power could have been interrupted at a number of I points, there was no break in the con-1 tinuity of its planning. Each step in its international defiance was bolder | and more significant than the last. ; DEPOSITS OF FOREIGNERS Mr Aderman quoted an unsigned memorandum from Schacht to Hitler dated May 3rd, 1935, stating: “The fact that our rearmament had to be camouflaged completely until May, 1935 (when Hitler denounced the Versailles Treaty), necessitated using the printing press in order to provide currency.” Schacht pointed out that the Reichsbank had invested the major part of foreigners’ deposits in armaments "so our armaments have been financed partly from the assets of our political opponents.’ Mr Aderman, quoting a report sent to Hess, said Germany by 1932 had secretly prepared a military organisation of civil airline pilots which later became the Luftwaffe. A letter to Rosenberg dated October, 1932, outlined plans for training military air crews through sports and commercial flying and providing for the payment of 50 marks hourly as flight-time pay for those surreptitiously training for war. A secret speech by Hitler revealed that Germany during six years before the war spent 90 billion marks in building up the Wehrmacht. STAR WITNESS VANISHES London, Nov. 26. Dr von Schuschnigg, a former Austrian Chancellor, the star witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trial, has vanished, says the “Daily Mail” correspondent at Nuremberg. It is said he has gone to Rohe to join his family and intends to stay there. A Vienna lawyer. Dr Gustav Seinbauer. who was deputed to examine Schuschnigg for the defence, said: “When I asked if Schuschnigg were available for questioning I found he had gone, though he apparently had been doing nothing for three weeks before my arrival. If he does not return voluntarily I shall have to ask the Court to bring his back.” The incident is being quoted as an instance of a series of events making the work of the defence lawyers more difficult. It is stated they were supplied with the prosecution’s documents at to-day’s hearing only after publication in the press. Five copies were supplied for more than 20 defence counsel. Lord Justice Lawrence, Pre_ I sident of the Court said: “Since some 250 copies were made available to the press it is not asking too much to provide one copy for each of the defence lawyers.” IBETZ ON f HITLER Paris, Nov. 26. Otto Abetz, former Nazi Ambassador to Vichy France, who is soon to be tried as a war criminal, expressed an opinion of Hitler during questioning to-day. He said: “I believe Hitler was a mixture of Joan of Arc and Charlie Chaplin.”