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HOW YOUNG NAZI
LEADERS ARE TRAINED
How are the future administrators | ents marry, their wedding ceremony of Nazi Germany trained and how do is carried out in, the "Cult Hall," be- they acquire the technique of propa- fore a statue representing a naked ganda? A visit to Burg Vogelsang in athlete and designed to represent the the Eifel district west of the Rhine regeneration of Germany. goes a good way towards answering those questions.
Burg Vogelsang is the premier train- ing college of Nazi leadership. Its premises, designed specially for the purpose, resemble a battlemented cas- tle. They command a fine view over the waters of the Urftsee Lake with its succession of giant dams of great strategic importance to Germany's frontier region.
There are three leadership colleges of this kind, each mustering an at- tendance of about a thousand young Nazis. The other two colleges are at Crossinsee in Mecklenburg and at Sonthofen in the mountainous Allgau region of Upper Bavaria. The most promising students at Burg Vogelsang are selected, on completion of their course, to serve as instructors at the other two schools, All who attend these colleges receive their education free of charge. They are chosen most- ly from the Adolf Hitler schools to which the most "reliable" and promis- ing candidates from the Hitler Youth organisation are sent. A certain num- ber of older men from the movement who show aptitude but need polish also attend these colleges, which re- present the last rung in the ladder of political education for Nazi Germany's future elite.
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A large parade ground cut out in the form of a plateau on the hillside below the castle gives ample space for recreation, football and physical train- ing. The waters of Lake Urftsee below.
Students provide a bathing place. are required to "demonstrate their . character" by taking a header twenty feet into the water below on the word of command, irrespective of whether they can. dive or not. Other oppor- tunities for "character training" are afforded in practice at parachuting.
Burg Vogelsang's purpose is to show the Nazi elite how to impress the un- thinking populace, isolated from world opinion. It is a University of Mass Suggestion. All instruction is given on mass lines. Here the future rulers of Germany learn mass spirit of the mind by listening daily in massed for-
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mation to addresses on how to con- vince and beguile audiences. Practi- cal experience goes hand in hand with Students of cadet theorectical instruction.
These colleges are built like castles in order, as their name "Ordensbur- gen" suggests, to emphasise their
character quasi-military schools bearing out the mediaeval tradition of the "Teutonic Knights." It was the monastic order of Teutonic Knights who maintained order. over a wide area of what is now Prussia in early barbaric days. Hitler has romantic predilection in favour of modern equivalent of such "orders," plighted to fidelity to himself.
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Burg Vogelsang are sent all over Ger- many to deliver lectures, learning to adapt their tone to the varying men- tality of their audiences.
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THE POISON LIBRARY A particular feature of Burg Vo- gelsang is the "Polson Library," called because it contains a variety of of literature representing schools
the Nazis consider thought which Inimical to their regime. In a lecture demonstrating how such thought might best be undermined, one of the instructors coupled the names of Jesus Christ, Karl Marx and Jean Jacques Rousseau as Germany's Public Enemies Numbers 1, 2 and 3.
It might be thought that with the opposition suppression of all overt
would not present public speaking great difficulties to Nazi propagandists. But they have come to the conclusion afraid to that since audiences. are voice their real objections, speakers must even on occasion simulate the tone of their hidden opponents and critics so as, if possible, to overcome their arguments.
This emulation of his opponents in their most formidable aspect reveals a tactical instinct to imitate and un- dermine. Hitler is a sworn enemy of Free Masonry and of monastic orders pledged to religious faith, because he fears any competition with his own organisations. Hence at Burg Vogel sang students learn to vilify their op- ponents by all possible means. That is part of their training as "political warriors for National Socialism."
This future elite of the Nazi party is schooled in unquestioning acceptan- ce of the ideas propounded by Hitler's cul- special "supervisor of German ture," Alfred Rosenberg. They pay lip-service to the ideal of placing the interests of the community before self, but such shrewd young aspirants to power are not slow to draw their own which from a doctrine conclusions preaches "survival of the fittest" and "the devil take the hindmost." When the products of Nazi education become due for military service, German Army officers have been heard to complain bitterly of their arrogance, irrespon- sibility and disregard for accuracy. NO. WOMEN AT BURG VOGELSANG No student under 21 years of 'is to eligible for Burg Vogelsang, none of these three leadership colle- ges are women admitted. Wives of students are allowed, to meet them at the week-ends at hotels in the|blishing a subversive document.-Reu- neighbourhood. When, however, stud- ter.
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At Burg Vogelsang speakers are un- learning the hectoring tone so familiar order with on Nazi platforms in honeyed accents to try and counter the creeping tide of public discontent in Germany.
N. Z. COMMUNIST LEADER IMPRISONED
Wellington, To-day. The President of the New Zealand Communist Party has been sentenced to nine months hard labour for pu-
By George McManus
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