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NAZI TYRANNY

PLIGHT OF CZECHS SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION REVIEW BY MR. R. M. ALGIE The conviction that the Germans would have no compunction in carrying out their reported threat to exterminate 300,000 citizens of Belgrade was expressed by Mr. R. M. Algie yesterday, when addressing the Auckland Creditmen's Club on the subject of the Oppression of Czeclio-Slovakia." "We made the great mistake," he said, "of judging the Germans by our own "moral standards. They do not hold human life as worth anything, and have already put to death tens of thousands." The bitterness of the German tyranny over the historic people of Czechoslovakia, whom they had sworn to protect, was proved by Mr. Algie from a wide array of facts. Systematically Hitler and his associates set to work to destroy the political, juridical and economic organisation of this wellmanaged and prosperous State. Free Parliamentary institutions were destroyed at once; radio, film and press were subjected to a rigorous censorship; and a brutal attempt was made to crush entirely the intellectual and cultural life of the Czech nation. The 12 Czech universities and-high technical schools had been closed indefinitely, their teaching staffs dispersed, their libraries and laboratories plundered, and their thousands of students cast jobless into a world unable to receive them. The Germans set out deliberately to destroy the §pirit of the youth of the country, and to remove all the objects of art and culture that enshrined the soul of a great people. They subjected them to every kind of petty annoyance, and they cruelly did to death many of their outstanding leaders. Now their lamp of democracy burned only in the hearts of an oppressed people. I

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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 13

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NAZI TYRANNY New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 13

NAZI TYRANNY New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24133, 27 November 1941, Page 13

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