NAZI CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23599, 8 September 1938, Page 11

NAZI CONGRESS

THE NUREMBERG RALLY I LEADER’S PROCLAMATION SUDETENS NOT MENTIONED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) :■ NUREMBERG, Sept. 6. Herr Hitler, in a proclamation at the Nuremberg Congress read by the .Fuhrer’s “ radio double,” Adolf Wagner, in the presence of 20,001 i party delegates, dig not mention th(p Sudetens, which seemed to indicate that the keynote of the congress wijl be celebration of the year’s triumplfs. notably the annexation of Austriak! Herr Hitler declared: “ I have ihb intention of concluding new pacts. I step before you, not with a papt, but with seven new German provinces.” He went on to welcorpe the Austrian delegates, “who rlre for the first time amongst us.” ■ * The proclamation traced , |he growth of the Nazi Party, declining that the nation had been cleahised of parasites and had begun i the struggle against the greatest enefmy threatening to destroy German/y—----international Jewry Tremendous armed forces protected- the Reichi' by land, sea, and air The Nazis (had succeded in unfastening shackle after shackle of the peace treaties, which were intended to destroy Germany for all time. J Herr Hitler added: “ English newspaper reports that I have a burping desire to conclude a pact with several nations are false. We at present have only two economic worries—namelv, insufficient men trained for industry and insufficient men for agricultural work.”- j . The proclamation glorified "the courage and heroism of the cprplnon soldier and contrasted it witln the alleged cowardice of the leaders in the Great War. It declared th;(it the attempt to rebuild demanded the extermination ,'oif the old leaders. 7; I “The establishment of the' Nazi organisation in Ostmark (Austria) is complete,” continued Herr Hitler. “Unemployment will be conapletely overcome by the end of 1939.'United Germany will continue to cKng to the principle that she would?jrather suffer restrictions than agairi depend on foreign countries for supplies. The security of the nation must b<pl placed before everything. The id<pa that Germany can be blockaded jean be abandoned as a totally ineffectual weapon. We have been blessed with a good harvest and have Irpge reserves of grain, which -free*- us for years ahead from food anxieties. Germany is deeply gratified .'that another great world Power. ijs acting on her own experience, anjfl by its own decision is practising tfhe same anti-Jewish doctrine with admirable energy.” f HERR HENLEIN ARRIVES TALK WITH NAZI LEADER . NUREMBERG, f3ept. 6. Herr Henlein arrived secretly and saw Herr Hitler for a few.'minutes.

Each year the truly.',; gigantic scheme of the lay-out oif. the rallyground has gone forward another stage. The work goes p(n uninterruptedly winter and surJnmer, and figures just published givft some idea of the size of the under taking. A full-size section of tpe gigantic stadium which is to be ( bjuilt on the rally ground has beei. /ejected; this model itself holds 24,000 (people. It has five storeys, r/pd on the second storey is a brigfnfy red mark indicating the height ! of the big Olympic Stadium in Berlin, which seated 110,000 people; 1 The completed party rally stadjoim will seat 450,000 people. It wil/l toe 260 feet high, and the spectators) on the top rows will have a viejvp similar to that from a church steeple. There will be 150 express lifted each carrying 100 persons, for tar. mg the spectators to their seats, j 'Those at the top will be 300 feet friam the spectacle below. $

For the stadium 375,000 cubic metres of granite will (be used. Another 40,000 cubic metres of granite will be taken by the “congress hall ” now under construction on the rally ground. No than 175 railway-truck loads of i building material arrive daily foir it alone at Nuremberg. The railways could not cone with this, so tlfiat the Party Rally Building Corporation had to help by building US’! own railway track Barracks for blousing 450.000 visitors will have btj.cn erected by 1940, a small towu Up itself. Nuremberg is not: the only town where building on a ('gigantic scale is going on Berlin. (Munich, Hamburg, and many other. 1 smaller towns are centres of uncetosing building activities. It is one ipf the outstanding nhases of the filhird Reich that building for the futcure continues uninterruptedly, regarcßess of political tension around Gercftjany. of rumours and sneculations. ar»d of all the talk about a shortage ,of labour and material. 5