GERMANY AND REDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 11

GERMANY AND REDS

THE COMMONS DEBATE NAZI COMMENT RESERVED STRUGGLE AGAINST MENACE By Telegraph—Press Associofion—Copyright BERLIN. April 17 Tho Nazi press shows great reserve in regard to the debate in the British House of Commons on Germany as the .Chancellor, Hcrr Hitler, has always i stressed the necessity of friendship with Britain and Italy. , Authoritative Nazi comment is to tho j effect that Britain, especially in view of tho present conflict with Moscow, should bo thankful instead of indignant : at Germany's struggle against the Com- , munist menace. WANTON TERROR ACTS OF BARBARITY PANIC-STRICKEN PEOPLE LONDON, April 11 The civilised mind cannot accommodate the ever-growing accumulation of horrors associated with the " brown terror " in Germany, writes the Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A search-below the apparently tranquil surfaces of cities and villages alike discloses frightful acts of barbarity, which defeat all modern analogies. Armed gangsters, supported by an. armed Government, oppose the defeated Republicans and t.he helpless Jews. Zola and Dostoievsky would need huge volumes in which to describe the wanton, systematised terror. Wurtemburg and Aachen seem free from the cruder barbarities of Berlin, which represents the average for Germany. Silesia and Brunswick are the worst treated. Dozens of beatings at Cassel have left victims bleeding, lacerated and dazed—almost out-of-mind wrecks. They conform to a general plan applied throughout Germany, and perpetrated in cold blood in " Brown House " torture "chambers. These are but a fraction of the total. Panic and the fear of reprisals forbid all but the boldest from speaking, even privately, about the hell they have undergone. The personal statements of the courageous, doctors' certificates, and also photographs establish a fraction of the truth about Cassel, which is a fraction of the . truth about Germany. An eminent Conservative associated with the Nationalists estimates that the number of beatings is 20,000. The Nazi Youth Movement has occupied the headquarters of the National Federation of Youth, after securing domination of that organisation, with control of 2000 hikers' hostels.