Warning Before Daybreak
Brandt, Albert A.
Warning Before Daybreak By Albert A. Brandt Only a Total Revolution Will Bring About Democracy in Germany ,| TKIJI-Y democratic Germany can only b« realffL iced'if fundamental social changes...
...Nazi power would be clipped hut not uprooted...
...Hitlers followers east* from all strata of society and so the revolt roust »* shared by all classes—a vertical revolt reaching fram top to bottom among German's citizens...
...They art still convinced that the solid German generals and the substantial financial leaders—the conservatives— em do the herculean job alone...
...They do not tee the disciplined German burghers in the role of violent revolutionaries, smashing power and privilege...
...Pretense is over...
...Ths other subjugated nations are represented in the thousands...
...After years of Nazi tyranny and war, the people are still conditioned by^ fefcr of the Party machine...
...Rsom the first, the Hitlerites have been an heterogeneous lot, bound together by their hates in a league •** discontent...
...The German revolution is today gathering force...
...Arrests cannot stop it...
...Only further l*ftary defeat on all fronts can change the picture...
...Al.HEKT Uranaj, new an American citizen, was Albert Barbanel in pre-Hitler Germany...
...A totalitarian ;j«mii i iTf can only com* to a totalitarian- end...
...This would not be the first time they have changed their minds about Communism, whose machinery of government is so •snflsr to their own...
...This may be seen in the maneuvres of the Nazi Party, defensive measures thst they find necesssry to cope with the Wehrmacht and the people...
...When the opposition springs from underground into open action, the industrial workers will be in the van of the revolution...
...Richard Armour...
...4,000,000 civilian workers...
...Persecution of th* peasants for withholding their produce has been speeded up...
...Half a million Russians and a* many Poles were working on the land in Germany...
...The VoelkUcher Heabachtrr has warned again and again that he is gunning for "every coward, every German weakling, every German who puts sn obstacle in Germany's path...
...Over a million are ^Russians, another million, Poles...
...or the present, the Nazi hierarchy is still all for **» to a finish and propaganda to whip the German r*ajl* along with it through fear of the consequences •< unconditional surrender...
...That is the difference between the National fcafcshst dictatorship and the monarchical tyranny of ltyj which was on its way out anyway...
...These battalions of forced labor add up to a huge army embittered by memories of their Hitlerravaged lands...
...TlIE Mayor, in a moment rash, Officially approves of hash And iriven his tacit blessing lo The varied, all-inclusive stew...
...He wrote extensively for various democratic German publications...
...As the women need not fear they will be sent to the front, they are more daring in their resistance...
...There ha* been a striking change in the relations between the Nazi* and the German Communists, Its real meaning is veiled...
...According to the Swedish newspaper Sorialdema kraten some 160 German civilians are executed daily...
...1 Shifting their methods to the ways of the most brutal dictatorship, they have found passive resistance one of their most effective weapons...
...But this is a fallacy...
...Democratic-minded workers have bravely penetrated that Front, Early in the war, when all Germany was flushed with Hitler's incredible success, the workers had the vision to say: "Wir tiegtn urn tot" (We sre killing oarselves with victories...
...When in 1M4 he warned the world that Germany wa* rearming for war he tu generally ridiculed a* an alarmist...
...Nazi statistics disclose that the 8,000,000 include...
...Freedom-loving Gersssss) in the Third Reich hope that the United Nations wil sot permit a palace revolution that would merely eliminate Hitler and his more conspicuous henchmen to make way for a "conservative" and "respectable" German government to do business with...
...and 1,500,000 employed in the building industry of the Todt organization...
...They believe that the uprising in the Reich will be little more than a "putsch" which they esn control while they mske the best possible bargain with th* Allies...
...At Isst, the grim reality The food we est upon a Monday Depends on what we didn't...
...Any form of political government is satisfactory to them as long as it does not disturb the basic economic setup, their control of the country's wealth and the loot from the subjugated nations...
...And it will sweep sway not only Nazism but it* core, their own Prussian militarism —if ths victors c«n take total revolution in defeated Germany...
...Those who believe that s basically different Germany ¦tost be crested if the blood of millions shall ijjt hsve Sewed in vain, hope that the German generals snd thai* friend* will not succeed in promoting any phoney awstthrow of the Hitler regime...
...This hostile army of foreign workers is known a* "the sixth column...
...Nations) Socialism has destroyed all organized social farces...
...The culinary jig in up...
...Only a total oaessation can' uproot total tyranny that reached its faB bloom under National Socialism...
...Warning Before Daybreak By Albert A. Brandt Only a Total Revolution Will Bring About Democracy in Germany ,| TKIJI-Y democratic Germany can only b« realffL iced'if fundamental social changes take place, 'if* Despite their dread of disorder in Europe, th* United Nations will hsve to allow the tide of labsllion if German* *» run its course until it sweeps •assy every vistage of Fascism...
...thousands are active In underground cells in key factories, pulling the wires that disrupt the Nszi wsr economy by malingering, by sit.town strikes and sabotage...
...They can put it to s novel use by proclaiming ths Third Reich a National Communist State •vernight...
...As military defeats continue, disaster *ul divide them and long-smouldering antagonism will Mass up...
...The housewife now no longer rsn Deceive her unsuspecting aisn...
...2**f nucleus is formed by those who have disliked **&mil Socialism before Hitler'* ascent to power, JSf «d not want the wsr and hope for Germany'* at much s* w* do...
...A substitute government of conservatives could not risk giving up the instrument* of terror used by the Nasi...
...The opposition in the Third Reich is often called "the other Germany...
...and half a million, French...
...Over their head*, no let* than over th* Nasi hierarchy, total rovolution will break...
...Th* Hitlerites may see their last chance in a EuroK*a Communist International, backed by the powerful, ready-made army, the Waffen S.S...
...Other estimates raise their total to 12,000,000...
...LEFTOVERS Mayor La fiitnrdia hue designated Mondays for gating leftover*.— News item...
...The veil is drawn from plate and cup...
...The slogan of the day has become: "There will not be another 19181" The Finish radio summed up the situation in a recent broadcast: "The National Socialist Party and the armed forces st th* disposal of th* Party are fighting tor their very existence...
...But the master minds of the master race have still another trump card to flash as • last desperate "saving miracle": the bogey of Bolshevism...
...For some time the Gestapo has set.been hounding the "Reds" in the Greater Reich...
...Now we see...
...He has found no Quisling among theii leaders...
...The phalanx of "supermen" will fall apart...
...He was formerly Professor of Philosophy st Newark University, a radio commentator, and has written for the Magazine Merit He contributed to .4n A..mult en.( initiation, a aymposisun on Nazi aggression...
...They . write manifestos and draw blueprints for a German revolution snd for a postwar Reich...
...Sunday...
...And the results are telling...
...The war strategists on the home front recognize the threat of millions of foreigners when revolt strikes, but the shortage of manpower is so acuta that more snd more of them mutt be imported daily...
...Many of their leaders and the rank and file have preferred death to dishonor...
...The Fuehrer has never won them over deepite all his blandishments...
...Heinrich Himinler'* job as public and private police chief in Nazidom grows more important every day to Hitler and his clique...
...The swift, bloodless revolution that swept away gsiserism cannot be repeated against Hitlerism...
...many more fill the concentration camps, prisons and torture chambers...
...They go through the motions of toiling for the Reich but in reality they strengthen ths underground and harass the Nazis by passive resistance and sabotage...
...Its officers played a sorry part in the betrayal of the Weimar Republic Nothing in the history of the Wehrmacht or ef the Junkers suggests that they can be friends of a—inrrscy...
...Paradoxically, the generals also held in line bv the Allies' terms which they reject for the honor of the army...
...Production in vital factories, as shown in official reports, have fallen 25 percent snd more in the past year...
...In the historic ruling class in Germany, they are confident that an upheaval in the Reich would only put them out of power temporarily...
...The Nazi Party is going to new extremes of ruthlessnees, indicating that unrest is now a real menace...
...While the Nazi leaders are haunted by the threat of revolution, their partners—the general*, th* armament kings and the big bankers—calmly play their own game...
...It goes on day and night under the eyes of the Gestapo and (he armed "Workers' Guards...
...This disunity is mirrored among the political exiles outside Germany...
...Arrest* among them for sabotage and treason have seen conspicuously few...
...Even conservative democrats could not long ru>e the German masses...
...All of them want to see their' programs prevail and many have personal ambitions...
...Unchanged themselves, they do not realize what National Socialism ha* done to the people...
...Those who will be the men of the hour tomorrow are probably known today only among the masses within Germany...
...It reports that one teuton for these recant death sentences throughout Germany is that ths prison* and the concentration camps are overcrowded...
...Yet there are many people in the Allied countries who believe that the Hitler system can be eliminated without the violence of s fullfledged revolution...
...He has built up a Labor Front—but no real representatives of labor sit in his inner councils...
...Purges are made against workers who sabotage production and are considered potential leader* of underground groups in the factories...
...Without the whole-hearted collaboration of the workers, so democracy can be envisaged in Germany...
...The real opposition to Hitler consists of those Gerwho are against every feature of HUlerUm...
...According to German reports, they number more than H.000,000, one thin, of all the workers In the German war machine...
...These snti-NszIs are help** >ad must wait for the regular army to take the ¦"¦tive in the.overthrow of Hitler while they work for Allied victory...
...It would retain minor Party officials, the police and the Gestapo...
...In his effort to quell incipient revolt by terror, Himmler has ordered . that death sentences are to be publicized all over the country by the German News Agency (DBN) instead of limiting the reports to the local pros...
...They do not realize that the people who have fought Nazism on the spot in the shadow of terror have changed snd will not welcome former lenders with open arms...
...4 * « SlDE by side with the German workers in the factories, and in the fields, are the foreigners who will be their natural Allies In the coming revolution in the Reich...
...They realize that St least part of the Wehrmacht had to start the revolt in the Reich, but they have their qualms about she German army in any revolutionary role...
...This slogan spread so widely that the German newspapers sternly rebuked those responsible for it and upbraided the citizens who were apathetic in the face of the Fuehrer's military triumphs...
...The kind of revolution <¦¦* will shake the defeated Reich, will decide whether tfu) and of this war will usher in world peace ,,T s***elv another twenty-year armistice...
...the world will'gee Nazis at one another's throats, tanning to cover—or joining the forces of revolution...
...Hundred* of important members of th* Nasi bureaucracy, suspected at possible "appeasers," have been arrested or have disappeared mysteriously...
...Th* prelude has already begun...
...The mass of once-organized workers is its center...
...In spite of intensive supervision, it is elusive snd highly destructive...
...Even if they were armed to the teeth—and Himmler has taken care that citizens have no weapons—they could not muster a striking force, for they are divided into splinter groups with different ideologies...
...XhE Nasi hierarchy will make the most of tenor to prevent and curb revolt...
...The chances for bedeviling the Nazis have grown through the extended use of women workers...
...However, the general* and their collaborators, who sponsored Hitler's total tyranny, will find that it ha* unleashed unprecedented consequence...
...2,500,000 prisoners of war...
Vol. 28 • March 1945 • No. 10
