HITLER’S WORD

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 4, 24 May 1940, Page 2

HITLER’S WORD

EVIDENTLY there are many people in civilised countries who still find it possible to believe that Hitler means what he says. They were again shocked and surprised when they heard that the gangster’s promise “not to make war on women and children,” was broken only just last week. Once and for all, let us get it quite clear: For Hitler,. a treaty, a guarantee, a promise, written or verbal, is a trap, devised to lull his prospective victims into a sense of security. Hermann Rauschning, who knew Hitler well, writes thus about the word of his purjured Hun: “Hitler told me what was his view of the value of treaties. He was ready, he said, to sign anything. . . . Every pact sworn to was broken or became out of date sooner or later. Anyone who was so fussy that he had to consult his conscience about whether he could keep to a pact was a fool. He (Hitler) could conclude any treaty in good faith, and yet be ready to break it in cold blood the next day, if that was in the interest of the future of Germany.’ Those who think that Hitler will be good up to a point are deceiving themselves. The gangster who fails to win his gamble swiftly will fight out with every known form of violence, cruelty and treachery. .a 7.'. 1 , - . ■ 7 -' We must be under no delusions about the nature and brutality of totalitarian war.