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Show Friends of Democracy Publish Document About Hitler's Secret Police Kansas City, Mo., May 19 (Special) (Spe-cial) With the ringing challenge, "We can do plenty about the Nazi Gestapo in America," Friends of Democracy this week published a spine-chilling document docu-ment on the act.vities, here and abroad, of Hitler's secret police. This 32-page document, released re-leased for publication here sknul-'.aneousiy sknul-'.aneousiy with its release at New York, is the first detailed exposure expos-ure given Americans of the creeping creep-ing organization in the United States of the dread Gestapo, L. M. Birkhead, nat.onal director, said to newspapermen this week. Besides Be-sides citing chapter and verse of the Nazi Gestapo's infiltration into many walks of American life, the document of Friends of Democracy treats photographically photographic-ally and textually with the "Gestapo "Ges-tapo Scourge in Germany" and its terrorists acts in the "blitzed" countr.es of Europe. "Nazism and the Gestapo are hterchangeable terms," National Director Birkhead told newspaper men at national headquarters here. "Friends of Democracy is convinced that these revelations will unite Americans to fight Nazism wherever its viciousness appears, so that never again can Gestapo terrorism take root in .his land of freedom. "Wherever Hitler's gray-green legions goose-step tr.umphantiy in the conquered countries of Europe, the road to treachery has been prepared by the Gestapo. "Under the leadership of Hein-rich Hein-rich Himmler, the Gestapo has become the most destructive agency ag-ency in the world. Herr Himm-ier's Himm-ier's agents are the tentacles of the Nazi octopus reaching out and enslaving the world." The document, distributed nation-wide by Friends of Democracy, Democ-racy, contains candid-camera shots of Gestapo mass executions in Europe, and fascsimile reproductions repro-ductions of Gestapo commands to agents abroad, including those in "key" positions, "immediately menacing the security of this iand of lree people." The graphic exposure concludes with the militant mili-tant warning that "we Americans must offer all of our strength, all our resources, to the forces of freedom now fighting Nazism and the paraiyz ng terrors of Gestapo-,sm. Gestapo-,sm. This means all-out aid to Britain now." (Editor's Note: An editorial review re-view of the Friends of Democracy's Democ-racy's documentary pamphlet, "lne Gestapo" appears in The : Pyramid on page 2. |
