TO CARVE UP BRITAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 9, 11 January 1946, Page 5

TO CARVE UP BRITAIN

WHAT NAZIS PLANNED

BAIT TO JAPANESE EVIDENCE AT WAR TRIaLS Recd. J .30 p.m. Nuremberg, J an. 9. “The British Empire and land possession Uiivugnout the woriu w.ll probaoiy be divided in three ways by Germany, Italy and Japan’ alter Lie Keich has carried out its intention of destroying the British Empire entirety.”

This was a declaration made by the Nazi Foreign Minister, Ribbentrop, which the Japanese Ambassador m BerLn transmitted to Tokio and the Allies intercepted one week before the Pearl Harbour attack. Sir Maxwell Fyfe introduced this secret message in a testament against Ribbentrop at. the Nuremberg trials to-day. 'ihe Japanese Ambassador, in his mess-age, quoted Ribbentrop as saying* “Britain may be allowed to retain only lhe Un‘led Kingdom. Germany iffiends wiping out British influence in the Nesi East, Africa, Gioraltar and the whole of the Mediranean area before attacking Britain by invasion. Germany in Airica will be satisfied roughly with those parts which formerly were her colonies. Italy will be given a great share ot the African colonies.”

The Japanese Ambassador's message to Tokio quoted von Ribbentrop as saying: ’Should Japan became engaged in war agt rnst the United States, Germany would, of g curse, immediately join that war. Thue is absolutely no possibility of Germany entering into a separate peace with tae United States The Fuh.e' is determined on that print.” Sil Maxwen Fyfe submitted the mi.iutes of a meeting held on June 6, 4944, at Hitler's headquarters at which the application oi lynch law to Allied airmen shot down over Germany was agreed upu.. *Tke minutes stated: “x.ynch law will have to be the rule after methods which are regardafole do terror actions, such as low-level attacks on civilians, the shooting of German air crews after they have baled out. and attacks on military hospitals and hospital trains clearly marked With the Red Cross.”

A letter from the German Foreign Office files was also submitted. It stated: “The Foreign Office is basically in agreement with the proposed lynch law measures, but it must be established that the German authorities are not directly responsible, because ‘the death occurred before any German official became concerned with tiie case”

A document was submitted dealing with preparations for an international anti-J ewish congress to be held at Cracow in 1944. Delegates from Nazi countries and from occupied France, Holland and Norway were expected to

attend. The document added that promises had been received from Switzerland, Spain, Portgua’ and Britons and Americans, among others, visuajised as willing to speak. Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C., member of tne British prosecuting team, presented the cases against Keitel and Jodi. He said their cases were being taken together because they ran on parallel

Mr. Roberts read an extract from Jodi’s diary on March 13, 1940, saying “The Fuhrer dyes not. give the order yet for the Weser operation (the invasion of Norway and Denmark). He is still looking for an excuse.” Mr. Roberts commented that this entry showed up in a lurid light he code of honour of the German i «iitary leaders.

A report Io Hitler from Terboven disclosed that Keitel approved the execution of Norwegian patriots. A Gorman high command report on June 12, 1944, stated that a British seaman captured after a two-man torpedo attack on the Tirpitz in Trondheim fiord was executed. A number of British Commandos also were executed after a sabotage attack in Norway.

Mr. Roberts described the executions as the cold-blooded murder of brave men. He said the evidence against Keitel and Jodi was overwhelming and convictions were demanded by the civilised world. A Godesberg message states that British field security police have arrested General Nicholaus von Bulow, the third and probably last surviving witness of Hitler’s private will. Intelligence officers are interrogating von Bulow, who has been living alone under an assumed name within a stone’s throw of the guards’ divisional headquarters. An informer is believed to have betrayed him.