| Show BEHIND THE WAR NEWS Writer Fears Allies Will Not Wipe Out Prussian Brass Hats By ALBERT rAN LEI The discrepancy in the statements statements statements state state- ments of P Prime r rim i m e c Minister Churchill and Gen Clay gives no assurances that except for fora a few scapegoats Hitler's generals generals generals gen gen- and admirals will be brought to justice and the Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin G H Q smashed once and for all Following the last war a novel was published in the reich called The Kaiser Goes the Generals Remain Regardless of the clamor of the American and British public history seems to be he repeating itself Po Powerful Power ver ver- ver ful interests appear to be shieldIng shieldIng shielding shield- shield Ing the German military hierarchy hierarchy hierarchy hier hier- archy although the late Pres Roosevelt solemnly promised that it would be dissolved Moscow radio commentators accuse the Anglo-Americans Anglo of allowing German officers to spread fascist propaganda But the Kremlin dickered with and andis andis andis is using the generals It cap cap- And as far back as Nov 7 1942 Stalin declared Our aim is not to destroy all armed force in Germany Among apologists for the Prussian clique are those who maintain that the brass hats are arc not so bad as the nazi big big- wigs True the gestapo and special guards operated the concentration concentration con con- camps for political prisoners But let it never be forgotten that the shot and burned its victims too There are arc sufficient bits of evidence to support this charge People were hunted down on the pretext that German soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers had been fired on declares declares declares de de- clares the official Black Book of Poland p. p 22 One of the houses was set ablaze after the Germans had thrown hand grenades grenades grenades gre gre- nades into it Many persons were inside Their bodies were left unburied until two days later These were civilians butchered at the command of officers The soviet war crimes commission commission commission com com- mission in Riga lists Russian prisoners of war killed Captured troops are under military military mili mm- tary control It took someone higher than a sergeant to order order order or or- der this massacre The French press service In New York has many photos of atrocities practiced by the wehr- wehr macht One snapshot tak taken n from a prisoner shows the hanging of several young men in Sarlat In the foreground are officers in German uniform Imagine a lieutenant in any army committing a crime of this nature without having been told to do so by superiors or being sure that they would sanction his act terrorism was inaugurated by the German general staff long before the nazis were born Many rany fine German-American German citizens of the United States came to this country because they detested the unrestrained militarism inthe in inthe inthe the fatherland Pettifoggers state that since H Hit Hitler i t l 1 e r transferred sovereign powers to Doenitz he and his staff must be considered heads of state and thus untouchable There is no certainty that der fuehrer abdicated in favor of the admiral The shift in power pow pow- er may have been a military putsch engineered by the mili mm- military tara tary-a tar tary a a second try after the original bomb plot failed This is the treatment administered administered administered admin admin- to a head of state by the Germans as sworn to last week by Paul Reynaud premier when France fell I was put In solitary confinement confinement confinement con con- for five months I never saw a ray of sunlight and was not allowed to read Count von Krosigk whom Doenitz made premier of the reich was permitted to use the radio with impunity to broadcast nazi propaganda Doenitz is the man who told his U-boat U crews Have no humanity humanity humanity hu hu- manity in your deeds Humanity Humanity Humanity Human Human- ity means weakness In keeping keeping keep keep- ing with this brutal advice submarines submarines sub sub- marines fired on helpless survivors survivors survivors sur sur- after merchant vessels were torpedoed Even under law this is a felony attested attested attested at at- tested to in the famous Llandovery Llandovery Llandovery Llan- Llan dovery Castle case casc in the tho last war ar U-boat U Officers Boldt and Dithmar indicted for sinkIng sinking sinking sink- sink Ing lifeboats were found guilty by the German supreme court There are some who invest the junkers with halos because they are aristocrats and the brown- brown shirts sprang from the gutter The officer corps teems with the nobility Eight l lout out 10 colonel colone generals have a von prefix to their names There are like designations designations designations for an overwhelming number number number num num- ber of Prussians from generals down to colonels Punishment of war criminals in 1920 broke down largely because because because be be- cause European royal families objected to having the crown prince Count Bismarck grandson grand grand- son of the Iron Chancellor and other aristocrats on Hindenburg's Hinden- Hinden burgs burg's staff dragged into court Protecting a social class may seem a sound argument today in continental palaces but it doesn't set well weIl in democratic America It is said that by bolstering bolstering bolstering bol bol- the Junkers Germany may be saved from anarchy What does it profit us to save Germany from anarchy if thereby thereby thereby there there- by we keep in power the militaristic militarIstic militaristic mili mili- class which has twice plunged the United States Into foreign wars wars and and may again |
