GERMANY'S NEW FUHRER?
Richter, O. H.
Germany's New Fuhrer? By O. H. Richter ERMANY MUST have orfly I -» one Party, ruled by one ™ Man. All lost German territory must be restored. War damage and compensation to...
...When tho occupation press censorship is dropped and Strasser returns to Germany (he intends to do so soon) it hopes to take a much more active part in German public life...
...Our main task would be to work against the collaboration of the today's German Quisling Parties with the Western Powers of Occupation...
...The League has its newspaper, "The News of the German Revival" (which circulates freely in the Anglo-American zone...
...These Powers, he asserts, want nothing other than a permanent division of Germany...
...Otto Rtrasser, 51, former friend and collaborator of Adolf Hitler...
...In Canada during the war, he tried to create his own "Free German Movement," but found no takers...
...The model for such a State in Franco Spain...
...I WANT to start a national Opposition," says Strasser today...
...All German politicians who cooperate with the Occupation will one day be tried and sentenced for treason...
...Strasser then started his own party, the "national revolutionary Black Front," as a Nazi left wing...
...Its aim appears to be the revival of the medieval notion of German society...
...Solidarism" is intended to be national and Christian, federal and in favor of decentralization...
...Pure egoism," says Strasser, "must be the sole aim of Germany...
...Meanwhile, in 1934, his brother, Gregor Strasser, was one of the victims of Hitler's "blood purge...
...Even if five or six million Germans must die in a third world war, the Russians, Americans, Poles and French will lose a far greater number of dead...
...This policy must be served up in simple, up-to-date and clear slogans...
...He became general manager of its publishing shop "Kampf," and played an important part in the nazification of Northern Germany...
...Duplicated, the letters reach thousands of people daily in all parts of Germany...
...Today there are several thousands of them...
...Every tactical expedient to achieve this end will be justified...
...That—next to the training of reliable party members—is our most important task...
...There is in principle no difference between the West arid the East in their treatment of thfe.1Fatherland...
...Then it would set up a "corporative, federalistie Reich," presided over by Strasser...
...fk>\v many will there be tomorrow...
...War damage and compensation to Sudetenlanders and other "displaced Germans" must be paid in full...
...Solidarism," which is supposed to be equally antagonistic to Communism and Capitalism, is Strasser's rallying call...
...The Black Front was banned in 1930, and Strasser fled...
...The "robbery" of the tei rhyry in the East has its direct parallel with that committed by France and Benelux in the West...
...In Bizonia, however, the Frankfurt headquarters of the movement claims, not only is their circulation allowed, but no special license is required for Strasser's publications and pamphlets...
...It was partly financed out of secret State funds by Abetz, the notorious police secretary of the Prussian Home Office...
...Behind it stands balding Dr...
...You are reading part of the program of a new German political movement called "The League for German Revival...
...You are not having a nightmare...
...If the East and the West reject our demands," says Strasser, "we shall rejoice at the spectacle of their internecine quarrels, of their weakening themselves by cutting each other's throats...
...A year ago Strasser started with 35 followers...
...OTTO STRASSER joined the Nazi Party in 1925...
...THE LEAGUE for German Revival" aims at abolishing the parliamentary regime after winning power in democratic elections...
...Still in Canada, Strasser bombards his growing list of followers with regular letters...
...Strasser's letters are forbidden in the French zone of Occupation...
...The new Fuehrer would not mind, however, if each of the German States had its own head as well...
...He also warns his followers against "collaboration" with the Western European Union...
...This will accordingly strengthen Germany...
...In 1930, Strasser split with the Fuehrer: Hitler "was not radical enough...
...We shall speak Russian in the East, English in the West, but deep in our hearts we shall remain Germans...
Vol. 32 • March 1949 • No. 13
