UNDER NAZI HEELS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4422, 7 May 1941, Page 6

UNDER NAZI HEELS

EVIDENCE FROM GERMAN SOURCES. ILLUMINATING EXAMPLES. (Official Service.) Nazi blandishments no longer cloak the violence of Hitler’s plan to enslave the world. The “ new order ” in its true character is revealed in the German press and in statements by Nazi leaders. “ National Socialist ideas of race and respect for other nations make Germany particularly well fitted for the task of colonial administration.” —Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 29th December, 1940. “ There are no different kinds of honour: there is but one honour—the honour of being a German in the Germany of Adolf Hitler. Our strength derives from our blood. The German nation has forsworn all thought of class; it knows no distinctions. There is but one distinction alone: that between Germans and criminals.”—Dr Ley, addressing the Judges of the Labour Front, Der Angriff, 22nd May, 1938- “ In an article explaining the application of the German penal laws to the occupied Polish territories, Dr Neubauer stated that in general the basis of the National-Socialist penal code is that the weaker serves the

stronger and that one people lead all other peoples dwelling in one geographical and geo-political space-unit.”— Litzmannstaedter Zeitung, 27th November, 1940. •

“ The position of the Poles or of the negroes in the colonies must be considered, under criminal'law, from the point’ of view of the supremacy of the German people.”—Reichminister Frank,' at a congress of the Academy of German Law, Munich, 22nd November, 1940.

“ The negro is, so to speak, a slave by nature, and the whole colonial way of life in East Africa is based on this exclusively subservient role of his.”— Muenchner Nachrichten, 28th November, 1940, summarising ideas expressed by Gerhard Nobel in his book of essays, “ Fire and Water.”

THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION.

“ The Axis Powers actually control the territory they wish to organise, and therefore can make a concrete beginning with their new order.”—Frankfurter Zeitung, 26th November, 1940. “ A German soldier killed a Norwegian sailor with his bayonet at Moide when the sailor made remarks against him when he was with a Norwegian girl in the town park. The German soldier was no t punished. Three thousand people, many of whom had come from afar, attended the funeral.”—Nationen, Oslo, 17th December, 1940. “ A Dutchman threw a beer glass at a German soldier in a cafe, seriously injuring him. He was sentenced

■to three years’ imprisonment. Three young Dutchmen, under the impulse of enmity to the German forces, took the caps of German officers from a restaurant cloakroom and tore them to pieces. They were sentenced to 17 months’ imprisonment. The German court stated: ‘ Certainly a mild sentence for this great insult.’ ” Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden,- Amsterdam, 21st December, 1940.

“ A bargee from Rotterdam said to a hawker of the official N.S.B. (Ger-man-backed Dutch Nazis) newspaper: ‘I won’t buy papers from the betrayers of my country.’ He was sentenced' to two months’ imprisonment and placed on probation for two years.”—Nieuwe Rotterdamsehe Courant, 13th December, 1940.

“ When two German soldiers emerged from a butcher’s shop in Oslo carrying a parcel of pork they were attacked by women who Were queueing up, unable to get anything. Niue women were arrested.” —Goeteborgs Handels-och-Sjoefarts-Tidning, 27th December, 1940.