HITLER THE SOLDIER

Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 6

HITLER THE SOLDIER

“DOES NOT WANT WAR.”

GERMAN JOURNALIST’S DECLARATION.

(Per United Press Association.)

Wellington, August 19.

“Germany does not want another war. At the present time Hitler is the only leader of a nation who was a common soldier. He went through the Great War as a private, was gas-blinded and wounded several times and therefore knows what war means and the effects of war,” said Herr A. E. J. WollschLaeger, a German journalist, who arrived to-day by the Marama from Sydney. He is returning to Germany after visiting many countries writing for a powerful newspaper syndicate on politics and economics.

Herr Wollsch-Laeger referred to the hardships suffered by the German peo-le during the Great War and paid a tribute to the Anzacs on the Western Front. He described the many stories concerning Germany to-day as quite unfounded. Hitler was working along the right lines and had saved the country and Europe from a Communist uprising. The campaign against the Jews was directed at hundreds of thousands of foreign Jews who had usurped business and professional positions at the expense of true Germans.