"HITLER SPEAKS" BY DR. HERMANN
HERE IS CHapter two of Dr. Hermann Raus- Speaks," chning's remarkable book, “Hitler which every British citizen should read to know why he is at war to-day.
Whatever Hitler has written and his numerous speeches have been prepared for the masses. Here we find what Hitler really thinks.
II:-ONLY ONE RIVAL
IN THE AIR
"In the air we shall of course be not miss it. I shall bend all my ener- supreme." Hitler resumed, "The air gies towards bringing it about. That offers many possibilities. We shall is my mission. surpass all competitors.
"We have only one serious rival in this field: the English. The Slavs will never learn to fight in the air. It is a manly weapon, a Germanic
art of
battle.
"I shall build the largest air fleet in the world. We shall have the most daring pilots. Of course, we shall have a great army as well."
"Will you introduce universal con- scription again?" he was asked.
"Not only that, but a universal con- scription of labour to which Hinden- burg's auxiliary conscription will seem a petty half-measure. We need urmies, not only highly qualified special formations, but mass armies as well.
"If I succeed in that then I have the right to send youth to its death. I shall have saved as many lives then as could be saved.
"Gentlemen, let us not play at being heroes, but let us destroy the enemy, Generals, in spite of the lessons of the war, want to behave like chivalrou knights.
They think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights. I need revolutions. I have made the doctrines of revolution the basis of my policy."
Hitler paused again. His next words came like a peroration:
"I shall shrink from nothing. No so-called international law, no agree- ments will prevent me from making use of any advantage that offers. "But we shall not use them as in "The next war will be unbelievably 1914. The place of artillery prepara- bloody and grim. But the most in- tion for frontal attack by one infan-human war, one which makes no dis- try in trench warfare will in future | tinction between military and civilian be taken by revolutionary propaganda, combatants, will at the same time be to break down the enemy psychologi- | the kindest, because it will be the cally before the armies begin to furic-shortest. tion at all.
"The enemy people must be de- moralised and ready to capitulate, driven into moral passivity, before military action can even be thought of."
He went on with growing en- thusiasm: "How to achieve the moral break-down of the enemy before the war has started-that is the problemn that interests me.
"Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed. Anything that helps preserve the precious German blood is good.
"We shall not shrink from the plot- ting of revolutions. Remember Sir Roger Casement and the Irish in the last war. We shall have friends who will help us in all the enemy countries. We shall know how to obtain such friends.
"Mental confusion, contradiction of feeling, indecisiveness, panic: these are our weapons. Do you know the doc- trine of the coup d'etat? Study it. Then you will know our task.
"I shall never start a war without the certainty that a demoralised enemy will succumb to the first stroke of a single gigantic attack." Hitler's eyes took on a fixed stare, and he began to shout.
"When the enemy is demoralised from within, when he stands on the brink of revolution, when social un- rest threatens, that is the right mo- ment.
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"And together with the fullest use of our arms, we shall grind down our enemy with a war of nerves. We shall provoke a revolution in France as cer- tainly as we shall not have one in Germany.
"Take my word for it. The French will hail me as their deliverer. The little man of the middle class will ac- claim us as the bearers of a just so- cial order and eternal peace.
"None of these people any longer want war and greatness. But I wan war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy!" My motto is: "Destroy him by all and any means," I am the one who will wage the war.
"A single blow must destroy him, Aerial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination from within, the murder of leadnig men, overwhelming attacks on all weak points in the enemy's de- fence, sudden attacks, all in the same second, without regard for reserves or losses: that is the war of the future. A gigantic, all-destroying blow.
"I do not consider consequences; Il think only of this one thing."
THE MA88E8 WANT BRUTALITY
Shortly after the Reichstag fire, Hitler asked me for a report on the Danzig situation, for there were to be elections in Danzig as in the Reich, Gauleiter Forster accompanied me.
While waiting in the lobby of the Reich Chancellery we got into con- versation with some of the Nazi cele- brities who were also waiting there. Goering, Himmler, Frick and a num- ber of Gauleiter from the western pro- vinces were talking together.
Goering was giving details of the fire, the secret of which was still be- ing carefully guarded.
He described how "his boys" had entered the Reichstag building by a subterranean passage from the Pre- sident's Palace, and how they had only a few minutes at their disposal and were nearly discovered.
He regretted that the "whole shack" had not burned down. They had been so hurried that they could not "make a proper job of it.” Goering, who had taken the leading part in the conver- with the significant sation, closed words:
"I have no consolence. My consolence
Adolf Hitler."
We were summoned into Hitler's presence. The conversation was a brief one.
He paused as if to give us time to take in this terrific programme and some at least of its fearful implica- Hitler began to discuss the Reich- tiofis, His next words were spoken stag fire. He asked whether we had with impressive calmness:
seen it yet, and we replied that we "I do not play at war. I shall not al-had not. low myself to be ordered about by "Go and look at it," he said, "It i "Commanders-in-Chief." | shall make the beacon of a new era in the history war. I shall determine the correct mo- of the world,”
ment for attack. "There is only one Then he began to speak of the treat- most favourable moment. I shall awaitment of Communists and Socialists. It with iron determination. I shall "These people thought I would
WHY HE EATS NO
MEAT
Hitler recognised no predeces- sore-with one exception: Richard Wagner. Did I know, Hitler once asked me, “that Wagner had at- tributed much of the decay of our civilisation to meat eating?"
"I don't touch meat," he ex- plained, "largely because of what Wagner says on the subject, and says, I think, absolutely rightly. "So much of the decay of our civilluation has its origin in the abdomen."
RA USCHNING
handle them with kid gloves, that I would be satisfied with speeches," he scoffed.
"We are not in a position to dally with humane feelings, nor can I un- dertake tedious investigations into any one's good will or innocence. We mus shake off all sentimentality and b hard.
"Some day, when I order war, I shall not be in a position to hestitate because of the ten million young men I shall be sending to their death.
"There is only one legal right, the nation's right to live.
sured with the yard-stick of bourgeois fre squeamishness. This Reichstag gives me the opportunity to intervene. And I shall intervene."
He then explained further, that he must shock the middle class in order to rouse their fear of the designs of the Communists and their dread of his own severity. "The world can only be ruled with fear."
Hitler dismissed us. Is adjutant Bruckner had entered. Time was get- ing on.
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(To Be Continued)
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HEYWOOD
BROUN DEAD
the
New York, To-day. Mr. Heywood Broun,
well- known newspaper commentator and American News- president of the paper Guild, died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, at the age of 51.
Mr. Broun was taken to hospital a few days ago suffering from pneu- monia. His condition fluctuated over the week-end and took a turn for the worse early yesterday morning.
"I have no choice," he exclaimed,
must do things that cannot be mea--Reuter.
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