NAZI TERROR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1942, Page 4

NAZI TERROR

TIGHTENED IN EUROPE

MASS EXECUTIONS. , / RESPONSIBILITY FOR SABOTAGE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 25. As the undercurrents of hostility gather volume in the occupied countries of Europe, so the grip of the Nazi terror tightens. In Austria families where sons or fathers have deserted from the German army are being deliberately broken up. according to information reaching London. Wives have been sent to work in German towns exposed to British air raids. Boys under military age are forced into labour squadrons in Germany or Poland. Girls are sent to farm work in Silesia. From Innsbruck alone forty such cases have been reported.

In Poland sabotage continues, despite all the German attempts to suppress it. Mass executions have taken place which the Germans carry out as part of the policy of allocating collective responsibility where sabotage occurs.

The cold reality behind the new order is shown in different fashion in Czechoslovakia, where the Germans have ceased to refer to the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It is now called "the former Czech space.” Significant, too, is the fact that henceforth German will be the language spoken at Cabinet meetings in Prague. The lengths to which the Germans will go to secure manpower are illustrated in the introduction of a new law in Norway whereby young men may join the German armed forces or the Norwegian volunteer legion against Russia without the consent of their parents. This law waS announced by Vichy radio. HITLER’S PURGE POWER FOR FANATICAL FOLLOWERS. HIMMLER AND HEYDRICH. LONDON, January 26. Hitler's purge is not being confined to the army, says the "Daily Telegraph's” Stockholm correspondent. It is reliably stated that the Gestapo chief, Himmler, is taking over the Minister of the Interior from Frick, and that Heydrich is taking Himmler’s position, thus concentrating the supreme administrative power in Germany and the occupied territory in the hands of Hitlev’s two most fanatical followers. It is reported that von Papen is being transferred to Prague as German governor of Bohemia and Moravia, as a result of his unsuccessful diplomacy in Turkey. There is no hint of Frick’s new post.