Show I Today War Chastening of Reich Begins Total Extermination Unlikely By Dew Dewitt It t Mackenzie 1 Associated Press War Var Analyst I haVe before me a letter from froma a reader hotly advocating the total total to total to tal extermination of Germanys Germany's population as the only way to insure insure insure in in- sure peace That of course represents an extreme though not rare viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point and one which Im I'm sure my correspondent wouldn't back up upon upon I Ion on a showdown How However ver Ive I've yet yetto yetto yetto to encounter anybody who ventured ventured ventured ven ven- an opinion at all who didn't say he hoped the allied armies would fight their way through the reich so the German people would get overwhelming punishment Well that's an argument we needn't try to settle here Probably Probably Probably ably all agree that just but just but heavy retribution is necessary to prevent repetition of aggression and in this connection I call attention to the fact that the fatherland just now is entering a period of chastening chastening chastening chast chast- ening which will be hell Our column Wednesday pointed out that the next few weeks are going to be among the most crucial crucial crucial cru cru- cial of the war for Germany This is the period of the great retreat of Hitler's broken armies to his inner defenses defens defenses defenses-a s-a s a catastrophic reversal reversal reversal re re- re- re versal of the victorious blitzkrieg with which he opened the war I It Its It's the pe period lod which will iII give the he the Germans the worst punIShment they've endured in modern history They will be undergoing both the strain of their dictators dictator's awful regimentation for total war and the despair of defeats and retreats Thus both military and civilians are about to be put through a fierce test of morale Der fuehrer will be lucky if they dont don't crack up The defeats the Germans German are suffering now are far worse than anything they encountered in the thelast thelast last ast war Their casualties in the previous conflict were and already the present conflagration conflagration I gration has claimed an estimated Countless a and n d s may die in the next few weeks Talk about annihilating the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans The young men who would sire the future generations are being being being be be- ing sacrificed by Hitler at a fearful rate in a mad effort to delay the surrender which must come This is particularly true on the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian front where he Is using every reserve he can muster The Muscovites Muscovites Muscovites Mus Mus- remark grimly that the nazis are being bled white The fuehrer has drained the last drop from his reservoir of reserves At the outset of the war he maintained maintained maintained main main- in central Germany a p pool ol olof of maybe 1 line first-line effectives effectives effectives tives ready to be flung in any di direction di- di The latest log loer of nazi divisions on the Normandy Normandy- front shows that not a single unit has been drawn recently from Germany Ger Ger- many They come from Denmark Holland Galicia Poland and many parts of France but nary one from the reich The pool is gone Germany is learning in a big way that aggression doesn't pay Every hour from now on will be working for the allies driving home the lesson Will that be enough The consensus is that it itI I wont won't fill the bill |