Thousands of Liberal Germans Wait for Moment to Strike at Hitler
SHUSTER, GEORGE N.
Thousands of Liberal Germans Wait for Moment to Strike at Hitler Nazis May Start Mass Terrorism In Desperate Victory Gamble By GEORGE N. SHUSTER ll/BEN. the Drottingholm 3teamed into port...
...A majority of the German people, faithless, cynical, had consciously rejected democracy as a way of life by going fascist or communist...
...The reasons for this success are many, but among them are certainly the qualities of the German army...
...reader—if not the U.S...
...It was not quite the conflict Hitler * had envisaged, but up until the time of the Battle of Britain it went astonishingly well...
...Let us not forget the great names of Saint-Quentin, Waterloo, Sedan...
...Protestations of love for the U.S...
...Levy after levy of Jews and Poles, Slovenes and Serbs, have dug their own graves and have then ."been mowed down with machine-gun fire or stabbed to death with Tiayonets, Hitler's theory is that the terror which such acts engender is cAlculated to frighten off his enemies...
...The grandiose scheme to colonize Lodlf California, Salvador Abascal's pet project, has fissmfc leaving a handful of the faithful in rags and starvHV in that barren region, and this has done little to enhsii* the movement in the eyes of Mexicans...
...Latin -American colonies in the large northern cities are not forgotten...
...Ironic, too, considering the noting and killing which Sinarchist goons have led...
...Thousands of Liberal Germans Wait for Moment to Strike at Hitler Nazis May Start Mass Terrorism In Desperate Victory Gamble By GEORGE N. SHUSTER ll/BEN...
...California is divided by the Sinarchistas into two regions, north and south, each with its jefe regional (regional chief or gauleiter...
...He began working then for the Associated Press way bade in 1921...
...But somehow P> money continues to come in, the propaganda in CalifWjl and Texas continues to stir trouble, and the SinarqiassJkJ have not begun to fold their tents...
...Organizers and peakers are sent across the border to stir up interest...
...Every effort to reach them from the outside is immediately and insistently counteracted by the Propaganda Ministry within...
...Since Catholicism admits of no racist theories but opens its doors to all men, this last point blow up the story, which clericc-fascists have been spreading, that Sinarquismo is merely a religious and spiritual movement of devout Mexicans...
...The Russians have sometimes been able to do . just that...
...Even as late as the summer of 1939, Germans and foreigners alike believed that Hitler would not dare to declare war, because war was too horrible to contemplate...
...The Fuehrer stated not only,that be had made up his mind a year previous to fight, but also that the object was to win Lebeneraum to the East and that therefore the Blackshirts had orders to exterminate the Polish people...
...The chief result of the North African operation has been the passing of Hitler's offensive perspective...
...The problem is not only a military one (and as such I would leave it to the military experts...
...There are units in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Fresno...
...On the one hand they were subjected to constant threats of ejection or worse...
...ana a third one: to show with concrete day-to-day facts that the Allied control will be more humane and morally and politically superior to Hitler's government...
...Of course this address in reality only gave dreadful point and focus to what had previously been written into Mein Kampf, and what had been made plain as day by orders to build up the army and the navy, to erect defenses against air raids, and to transform Industry into an implement of total war...
...An EXpurgated Program lkTOT long after Pearl Harbor, the National Sinarchist Union issued a pamphlet summarizing its program...
...In short, one big union for aD the workers, dictated to by a benevolent State...
...government—in an effort to wipe out the impression of anti-U.S...
...Lochner and Oechsner have much to tell us about all this...
...Nor would I question the many merits of the portly volume produced by Oechsner and his friends of the United Press...
...Furthermore, it is only through Greece that the Allies can reach Serbia and from there occupy the Dalmation shore of the Adriatic, probably not well defended, and move upon Istria...
...Yet, there is still hope...
...On the other hand, they were frequently wooed with bribes and flattery, in the hope that one or the other at least might be "won over to the Nazi yiew of life...
...Somewhere along the line, there are cuts at "the leaders who live at the expense of the worker they corrupt and deceive...
...For it is clear that he is no longer able to undertake large-scale efforts against Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow: he cannot afford the waste of men and material involved...
...If America has realized in time what manner of sword was being lowered over its bead, the credit is in large measure due to the men who helped to prove once more that the pen is mightier than the sword...
...THIS IS THE ENEMY...
...and you may be pretty sure that anybody with a story to tall tried to pump it into the ears of this bespectacled, shrewd and genial reporter...
...Supply lines would be tremendously long and the rear would not be secured, as it would be based in an "enemy" country...
...It is a supreme necessity in view of our peace aims, which, as a whole, must coincide with ear war aims...
...neighbors...
...That there are hundreds of thousands of people in Germany who understand what has happened and are waiting -for the time to strike is a fact which Mr...
...Marne in the West, of Paris, Marengo, Rivoli, Piave and Vittorio Veneto in the South, Austerlitz, Lemberg in the East, to mention the first names that come to mind...
...the Drottingholm 3teamed into port during June of this year, it" landed veteran American newspapermen who had seen pretty "nearly everything that was going-on in Germany since •the rise of-Hitler...
...I have put down both these books with renewed pride in the integrity and dignity of American newspapermen...
...Guatemala, too, has been infected although government opposition has forced the Sinarquistas underground...
...And this is not to carry out vengeance or summary acts of justice but in order to let the sentiment of democratic victory sink deeply into the people's consciousness...
...Officered by men who were as hard and fit as the privates and sergeants they commanded, Hitler's war machine had learned the science of ballistics...
...The worst of alltempta+fcns was, however, to succumb to the disgust one felt and to^jpafk out on the job...
...From this point of view it would seem natural for the Allies to attempt, at the earliest possible moment, when Tunisia is in ther hands, the occupation of the islands of Pantelleria, Sicily, Crete, Rhodes and the Dodecanese...
...They had to carry on under circumstances which any other age than ours would have dubbed too fantastic to be true...
...But there is a load of material in it, and some excellent common sense...
...They are bitter enough to feel that the prosperity of the Southwest can be theirs when a victorious Sinarchist revolution tears it from our grasp...
...But we repudiate it when it is accompanied by the injustices and privileges with which it was invested by economic liberalism...
...To capital also is promised "true labor unions made up of workmen without leaders . . . which shall at* promote class war, nor be the ready instruments ef political passions...
...Sinarchism, wherever Mexicans may be found, seeks to unite them and add them to its ranks, but forbids the admission of foreigners...
...it is only there that the National Sinarchist Union has appeared to organize them according to the laws of that Republb...
...and to sense popular loathing.of the graft, selfishness and brutality which characterized the Nazi regime...
...Since there are no important groups of M"~"J*«*>« abroad, except in the southern part of the U.S...
...Lochner prints a document which he considers authentic (and so, for my part, do I), outlining Hitler's remarks at a private conference with his generals on August 22 of that...
...The occupation of Germany can appear to be a polities] aim...
...I say "for the time being" because Hitler, like every besieged force, must try to break the ring and to resume the offensive...
...In any case, the Allies will surely be forced to go out and seek the enemy at the same time in France and in Poland, these being the two fronts nearest to Germany itself...
...And what of the trend of events inside Germany itself...
...Sinarquismo's Sudetenland is our own Southwest—New Mexico, Texas, California—and no member of the movement is permitted to forget that part of these territories were once Mexican...
...to divine the terrors of life in concentration camps, or under the vigilant eyes of grim Gestapo officials...
...One cannot expect to find him drawing wisdom or insight into the German character from patient studies of individual victims of the dictatorial process, and so getting ready to write books having the permanent koignancy and value of Hauaer's Time Was or Rauschning-'s Voice of Destruction...
...but it is also a political problem at the same time...
...We affirm the right of public property in the manner that it is conferred upon man by Natural Law...
...Indeed, Louis Lochner had been a sort of Berlin institution...
...Russia cannot be "blitzed" any longer...
...Allies, ^* quite apart from their intention of retaining the initiative and of keeping up the offensive character of the North African campaign...
...There is still another reason favoring the occupation of Germany, that of the maintenance of order...
...A democratic' propaganda must overcome these handicaps...
...WHAT ABOUT GERMANP...
...In Nicaragua, the editor of an influential Managuan daily has been converted to Sinarquismo's doctrine'.and: uses his newspaper to publish fervent propaganda...
...but the Italian people are, till now, not prepared, either psychologically or politically, to unite with the Anglo-Americans or...
...Oechsner's book in particular reads like a modern Dante's Inferno on this topic...
...But beyond that, Hitler has lost interest in any undertaking of that kind...
...It mast offer a positive goal and solution to the questions asked by the German people...
...The present war will mark the end of the capitalist and liberal regime...
...New York has its secret meetings along the waterfront and'in Harlem at which agents of the Falange, as well as Sinarchist organizers, are present...
...We repudiate the division of 'leftists' and 'rightists...
...propaganda and the growing evidence of Sinarquismo's ties with Axis subversion...
...Sinarquismo—Post War Threat to U.S — Claims Southwest as Mexico's "Sudetenland" By Ralph de Toledano Beyond Mexico's Border *T*HE khaki shirts of Sinarquismo have not limited * themselves to propaganda, riot, and subversion in Mexico alone...
...It is reinforced by the recent reports of American correspondents who have covered Germany...
...The rallying cry, "Our leader is chosen by Godl" has been carried into Central America with success...
...Through the Pollyanna spirit of this "Summary," however, a picture of the true program emerges...
...In many of these towns, large mass meetings are held, all duly reported in El Sinarquista, official newspaper of the movement...
...The besieging forces, starting from Murmansk, extend to the Caucasus, and through Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Egypt reach the newly occupied lands, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, thence along the Atlantic waters through the Channel and the North Sea, thus closing the circle...
...And it may very well come to pass that his last desperate effort will be a threat to , exterminate the populations of occupied countries...
...And this appears to me far more urgent and interesting with respect to the program of ending Europe's siege...
...Then, aided by the Dorados, *• Partido de Salvacion Nacioaal, Accion Nacional, • Falange, and several angry generals, Sinarquismo coasf « present the U.S...
...First of all: the full control of the Mediterranean Sea, to speed up communications and transfer of troops and equipment...
...The decisive victory this time will again be won in Northern France or Flanders or in Poland...
...The German people are warned by their masters that if they lose this time, they will be dismembered and destroyed...
...Let us try to analyze them...
...close this decumept, but as they were being written, the Sinarchist press aad its propagandists in the field were proclaiming tfcfj America's hour of doom had struck and that Japan sm avenging the crimes which we had visited upon M«xl^ m m m Members Decrease DECENT events in Africa and in the Pacific have MB* Sinarquismo's prestige and caused a falling off J* membership...
...but it is, too...
...Like all fascist movements it has moved beyond the borders of the country of origin, seeking recruits among nationals in other lands...
...eyes payi service to anti-Nazi sentiment...
...Indeed, it is only through Greece, Bulgaria and Rumania that the Allies can reach Russia and attempt the reunion of the two fronts, thereby shortening the line of siege by at least three thousand miles...
...These occassions are labeled German defeats...
...New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...Siege of Hitler's Europe—Allies Seen Preparing Balkan Thrust from Africa Base By Don Luigi Stuzo THE ring of siege around Europe will be closed with * the Allied occupation (at present under way) of the whole of Mediterranean and Atlantic North Africa...
...Sinarchism is not a political party...
...It got there first with the most guns...
...Sinarchism," says the pamphlet, "seeks the restoration in Mexico of the Christian Social Order destroyed by anarchy...
...r • THE final goal of the Allies must be the military occu-* pation of a defeated Germany, and this cannot be achieved except through France and the Low Countries hi the West and through Poland in the East...
...Capitalists are promised protection fries the "voracity of demagogues" and from "political machinations...
...Their book is well written, and offers, above all, a portrait of Hitler which for stark realism and objectivity has no rival save, perhaps, the classic memoir of that once strangly deluded French ambassador, M. Francois-Poncet...
...But they were able to sample the hundred and one privations imposed on every man, Woman and child...
...George N. Shuster were written by men in "the last trains out of Berlin...
...The mistake must not be repeated of letting the German people beliese that Germany was not overcome on the field of battle bet only "politically betrayed," as in the years following 1918...
...I believe that the Italian people, with the exception of the Fascists, would be happy to break away from their Axis partner...
...If the picture of democracy that is held out to them is merely the same picture they rejected ten years ago, there is little stimulus for change...
...That t}ie Nazis have executed at least a million people as hostages or simply as folk of lesser breed is so gTewsome a footnote to history . that one just can't grasp it...
...Lochner in particular underscores...
...That .lesson our newspapermen din into our ears...
...A NOTHER very great advantage deriving to the Allies from any such operation would be that, moving into Greece, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia (perhaps even Rumania from Transsylvania) they would meet friendly peoples, among the most battered victims of the Axis, who will with all their hearts come to the support of the Allies, helping to create new military and political forces...
...By Louis P. Lochner...
...The war will be decided in the, plains of Europe which historically have always witnessed the final battles: the Low Countries and Northern France, Northern Italy, the plains of Austria and Hungary or those of Poland...
...The hour of the counter-revolution has sounded in the world...
...Labor is promised control of the factories and a thaw in the profits...
...Its main enemy, howevef, is Communism which, by some strange alchemy, always turns out to be liberalism, bourgeois democracy, and the "rapacious capitalists which the revolution has produced...
...CMb thus can a beginning be made toward the modifiestiuiMt the Nazi-bred conception of dominating force and of rai-ing race...
...Too, the overthrow of the Czar in February, 1917, had robbed the German warlords of their main appeal to the German working class of a "defensive war against tyranny...
...Given this starting point, an invasion of Italy, owing to the length of time and the means it would absorb, would slow down any operation through the Balkans...
...Freedom of education is featured prominently in tat Sinarchist brochure, but no mention is made of Sinae* quismo's educational agitation—to take education out of the corrupt hands of Government, to free it by returning it to the Church...
...it is certain, however, that Russia, with the exception of the Caucasus, has become for Hitler (not for Russia itself) a secondary theater of operations...
...Their camouflage was dishonest but it worked...
...The first point which Lochner and Oechsner have to make is that, the Nasi crowd planned this war with loving care...
...This man, filled to the brim with cabalistic manias, given to seeking out occult influences, and obsessed with the symbolism of sex, is nevertheless'a student of military campaigns, a master of the art of bending others to his wishes, and a bold revolutionary thinker in the realm of culture and religion...
...It can create some unrest* but the Germans are too busy elsewhere to exploit a. Given a post-war political and economic crisis in Mexiaat the Sinarchists could be dynamite...
...I have left out the fields of Northern Italy, always so bloody, as the decisive field because, should the Allies occupy Italy and move into Lombasdy and Venetia without having first reduced France, a frontal battle there would be too dangerous...
...But the principal democratic disaster was inability to understand Hitler himself...
...It was published in English and obviously slanted at the U.S...
...He might think of invading Turkey or Spain...
...Thus Italy would be encircled and forced to think only of her domestic defense...
...Germany must be militarily occupied through the lenglk and breadth of her territory for at least six months...
...The centers of Sinarchist activity in Texas are McAllen, Edenburgh, Laredo, and El Paso...
...But Mr...
...If successful, he could get the oil which he lacks, he could close the Persian Gulf route to Russia and could face both toward the Near East and India...
...These groups, throughout the country, were told before Pearl Harbor that "in America the Sinarchist movement is destined to bring about re-Christianization...
...with fascism at its borders...
...The books discussed here by Dr...
...His book suffers from being little more than, a series of feature articles, loosely strung together and sometimes repetitious...
...They are ready to believe the old stories of Yanqui cupidity, of "el coloso del Norte," who is preparing to betray the Latin and Indian peoples in the guise of hemisphere solidarity...
...a part of the military program relating to Europe's siege...
...What do these books tell us...
...The German people today have gone through ten years of total propaganda...
...For this reason Hitler will defend Italy and the Balkans to the last now that he has been forced to give up his African plans...
...The only point, after Tunisia, at which he can force an outlet is the Caucasus...
...Boston: Little , Brown and Company...
...Men forgot that although Germany was in some respects woefully weak and divided, it was not relatively so if one compared it with other European states...
...These Mexicans are organized in cells or units of active members who "activize" the less politically inclined sympathizers...
...But too often we forget that the conditions of present psychological warfare in little way resemble the conditions of 1917-1918...
...is the cea-tention that "they present passive resistance to arbitrary impositions (by the Government) contrary to their ideals:" The expurgated Sinarchist program for U.S...
...The newspaperman is neither an historian nor a rasual observer...
...The revolutions^ situation they have been attempting to stir would >> , dropped in their laps...
...Well, there is much one will not find...
...raids was felt in a series of German cities...
...This would be a military operation of the first order: to occupy the oil fields of Rumania and to force the enemy either to withdraw from the Caucasus or to fight there on two fronts...
...CONSIDER now the immediate objectives of the...
...Foodstuffs and munition reserves could then be moved into the Balkans, thereby enormously easing the problem of supply...
...However difficult the Balkan battles, they will net be the decisive ones...
...The next month will tell us what winter line will be selected by Hitler and what efforts can be undertaken by Russia to regain the lost ground...
...INEVITABLY the war came...
...I believe that they would rather tolerate Nazi occupation (even fighting against their will) and be able to blame their defeat on Fascism and Germany than yield without fighting...
...Sinarchists, according to their rule, attend all their meetings entireig unarmed...
...Past mistakes, present incomprehension, national resentment, individual pride, all are stirring the hearts of the Italians...
...What are the objectives of the besieger, and of the besieged...
...If Hitler's own people are his victims, it is not difficult to , image a little of the torture endured in countries which involun-.tarily "cooperate" with the New Order...
...These peons believe they have no stake in this "rich man's war," that Japan is avenging Chamizal and the Alamo and the shelling of Vera Cruz...
...Today, thousands of Mexicans living within the U. S. have been taught the Sinarchist salute (right arm across breast touching the left shoulder) and have pledged their lives to the New Christian Order which Salvador Abascal, the real leader, has promised...
...The correspondents left before the weight of mass R.A.F...
...By Frederick Oechsner...
...Here is a strange point to mention in a sunv mary of principles for a religious movement professing "democratic" ideals...
...but he must realize that the outcome of both enterprises is doubtful, and might be ruinous...
...Ignorant, ill-paid, the butt of ' prejudice and Anglo-Saxon "superiority," these peasants have little reason for loving their U.S...
...And the trouble was that neither Germans nor foreigners thought that these orders could be 'carried out by a, government with the limited resources available to the Third Reich...
...He attends the functions, the dinner, the debates and the battles...
...The occupation of Italy ought not to be listed as an immediate objective...
...On the other hand, Hitler needs urgently to strengthen his positions in Poland and in France, in the Scandinavian countries and along the Alps, in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, for he is afraid {and with reason) that the first objective of the besieger will be that of shortening, as much as possible, the line of siege, before committing himself to the final and decisive battles...
...It is not hard to proselytize among the poor, underprivileged Mexican workers who have moved across the border into the United States...
...I could be mistaken in this forecast but in any case it should be taken into account...
...In terms of the war, Sinarquismo has ceased to be W menace it might have been...
...Should the occupation of Italy be attempted...
...Does this mean a return to Spanish dominion or the exhumation of the Habsburg "Emperor" who ruled by the grace of Napoleon III and died by courtesy of a Mexican revolutionary firing...
...year...
...People filed him away in every cubby hole except his own...
...This is of great importance because military initiative, for the time being at least, is left in the hands of the other side...
...Then m strong German Socialist Party was growing more and more anti-war...
...He is perforse rompelled to spend his time in places where news comes hot from the griddle...
...The German Phoenix 1TUIANY people anxiously speculate on 1V1 tne question of a possible German collapse behind the lines...
...Oechsner paints the picture as it really is, in chapters that will retain great historical value...
...worse still, with the French...
...These groups have connected with the Dorados, the Gold Shirts of the ill-fated Cedillo putsch, who began to show signs of life after the outbreak of the war...
...For they know that we shall win only when we can hurl more dynamite at Hitler than he can throw back...
...They started planning right after 1918, and they got an opportunity to put their ideas into practice because they successfully disguised what they were about...
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