Patea & Waverley Press. WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY, 3, HOW HITLER RULES

Patea Mail, 3 January 1940, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press. WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY, 3, HOW HITLER RULES

HOW Hiller the pityless, unscrupulous and tyrannical dictator manages to held continued sway over me German people is revealed by G. Ward Trice in a recent issue of tlie Daily Mail. Hitler, to give him credit, is a master of detail and believes in having at his hack a thorough and complete system of organisation. Without it he knows full well that he could not early on and his days would bo numbered. At the head of this organisation is a mild-mannered, mild looking individual of the name of Himmler, who started -life as a tutor in Bavaria, and later joined the Nazi Party. He had a passion for liliug documents, and with wonderful ingenuity and pains compiled a complete record of the Nazi Party. These records, which have since run into millions arc kept in steel cabinets in the Brown House at Munich, and it was his success ■. with this work that first brought Herr Himmler under the Fuehrer’s notice. Today, as head of the secret police, flinimjer has the following forces under him, I. The S.S., or Black- Guards, 390,000 strong. Those are the pick of the youngest men of the party. They live at home tuid turn out when wanted. Most of them have now been called up for military service, 2. The Verfugungstruppe of the 8.5,, believed to number also 200,000. It is a seven years’ service civilian army, equipped and trained like soldiers, for the maintenance of internal order. If trouble breaks out in Germany, these troops, distributed among all the largo towns, will have the task of dealing with it. Some regiments arc with the army in Poland, On active service they wear ficld-grcy, 3. The Adolf Hitler Leibstandartc, .10,000 strong. They are the Fuehrer’s bodyguard, the most carefully picked soldiers in the world, physically, morally, politically, ancestrally, even aesthetically, for a man. is refused if he has not a "good German appearance.” Their commander is Colonel Sepp DielriiCh, a short, silent, sternfaced man, who was once a porter

at Munich railway station, and afterwards a sergeant-major in the Great War. 4. The ordinary uniformed police and gendarmerie, under General Dalucge, a •rod-faced, jovial type of soldier. 5. The Gestapo—the plain-clothes political G.i.D. of Germany, under lieinliard Mcydrieh, a tall, handsome, fair-haired, blue eyed young man, who has Avon many prizes as an athlete and a horse man. There is also a special party police called the Uschaia, partly attached to Himmler, but also under Rudolf Hess, the Fuehrer’s deputy and party chief. Its head is Major Buch, avlio conducted the court martial that condemned to death Captain Rochm and the other victims of the party purge of June 30, 1934, With such an organisation ready to act here, there and everywhere in Germany at a moment ’s notice, Hitler manages to hold sway. With its spies everywhere the organisation knoAvs at once if a person is hostile to the Hitler regime and the result is that the victim, after a mock trial is either sent to a concentration camp or quietly put out of the Avay. Like the Ogpu the Gestapo sticks at nothing to get its victims. The faking of evidence is easy for police of unlimited poAvcr. Witnesses Avho cannot be threatened arc appealed to in the potent name of the Fuehrer. It is hard to find out Avhat goes on in the cells beneath the "secret police headquarters in the. Prinz-Albreehctstrasse, Berlin, or at the Gestapo prison of Columbia House. People Avho arc fortunate enough to bo released, instead of going to a concentration camp, arc too terrified to talk. It can thus be seen lioav Hitler manages to retain his hold on the German people, and how difficult is the task of those Avho Avonld have him removed.