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Feeling In Germany Rising Against The
Gestapo
FROM A VARIETY of sources in Nazi Germany
FUEHRER
OF SOUTH
and in neighbouring countries like Hungary AMERICA
Slovakia and the "Protectorate" of the former Czech
Republic, reports are arriving of a growing new ARRESTED
feeling against the Gestapo among the Germans.
Hitherto, the Gestapo aroused the hatred most- Aires correspondent of According to the Buenos
ly of the peoples subjected by the Germans, such as the "New York Times" the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Jews. But lately the yesterday, Arnule Fuhr- feeling is spreading among the Germans themselves mann, so-called Fuehrer Himmler is now the most hated of all public men rested on Sunday night at of South America, was ar- in Germany and the Gestapo is looked upon with Concordia, a border point great disfavour.
on the Uruguay River.
The arrest was made at the request of the Buenos Aires police, the correspondent adds.
It is expected the Argentine
gees
It is needless to add that the! German workers are not as high-
It appears that one of the chief branches of industry. The same reasons for this is the resentment paper writes that production has felt because members of the Ges-been increased from 15 to 59% Lapo are exempt from military without deterioration of quality, Government will order the de- service. With the army casualty at the Gustloff Works, another portation of Fuhrmann as it has lists mounting daily, the average Nazi model factory.
ordered the deportation of Karl German man and woman
Arnold, who is accused of being a
Nazi that the Gestapo
prominent
secret police men are safe and sound and having a pretty
agent.
During the recent investiga- good time at that, while their ownly pleased with the new speed-up} tion of Nazi activities by the sons,, husbands and brothers are system as the Nazi leaders ap-
committee of the Uruguayan exposed to fearful. casualties at
Congress, a document outlining. the Front. Considering that the
pear to be. A whispering cam-
plans for the military seizure Gestapo now employs nearly alpaign is going around the German!
of Uruguay as a German colony million-and-a-half men, there factories now, exhorting the
was found in Fuhrmann's pós- is no wonder that hatred is be-workers to resist and sabotage the
gession. coming widespread.
new system, which will speed
'To counteract this tendency, them to death. Himmler and his agents have re-¦ cently
started to arrest many Germans, in addition to Jews,
Czechs and Slovaks.
In the con-
Semi-Starvation In Occupied Countries
*
Fuhrmann admitted the plan was in his hand-writing but con- tended it was only a joke.
"Weak Mentality”
The "New York Times" corres- pondent adds that although the German Minister in Uruguay # statement disowning
One result of the Nazi system issued
centration camp at Oranienburg 12,000 new, prisoners have lately of removing all food-stuffs from Fuhrmann as an Argentine citi- been added, most of them Ger-
mans.
in com-
This manifestation, which occupied territories and trans-zen of weak mentality who should aven_the Nazi victories and porting them to Germany is al-pondence seized by the Uruguayan [not be taken seriously, corres- jubilations have not succeeded in ready seen in occupied Holland police showed he was one of the SAGESER CAKE obscuring, is probably the most and Belgium. The populations in most powerful Nazi. leaders
significant of the internal life in both of these countries are already Uruguay and in constant Nazi Germany at the present mo-in a state of half-starvation. There munication with Nazi leaders, in ment.
is no bread, no butter, eggs, or Germany. Reuter. meat, for even the cattle has been In the meantime, opposition to slaughtered and the meat sent to the Gestapo in Bohemia and Germany. Daily, new soup kit- Moravia is continuing. Since the chens are being
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famous incident
opened to feed last the population, for without this year, (where a number of Gestapo aid, the people would be literally. agents were killed) several more starving. have been murdered at different be faced with the spectacle of a Soon the world may places.
famine in the Low Countries.
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GERMAN
AIRMEN
LIKE SHEEP
The case of the student Smudek is most typical and was
Hitler's Stock High UNDER DATE OF JUNE 11 A reported in all the Nazł news- papers after it had become im the German Army, the
Following the recent victories of BOY
FORMER CATHEDRAL SCHOOL WRITES FROM "SOME- possible to keep the matter dark myth, which had hitherto
Hitler w HERE IN SCOTLAND" any longer. If appears that in somewhat weakened,
been WHERE HE IS AN AIR GUNNER the city of Domaslitz, a-Gestapo coming into
Is again N-THE-R;A‚F fashion, man was found dying. He stated)
Goering, that his assallant was a local gathering recently, pointed
speaking to 2 German Press
"I have just been promoted to student namer Smudek. Despite that Hitler was not only an in-gend food. I've been doing a fair
out sergeant.
Comfortable billets and
a reward of 2,000 Kroner, the student could not be found. genious statesmarr but the greatest amount of flying but have not been general and strategist of all time. in action as yet, and when I do In May, two other Gestapo men the Western Frents were due en-good cause and in times we have The successes on the Eastern and don't worry about me. It's for a were found murdered. In this case,urely to him. He understood the to face realities. My heart reward of 100,000 Kroner was psychology of his soldiers, because is in this job. We are superior to offered to anyone who could give he himself was a plain soldier, and them in 'planes and personnel and information about the murder. So he knew what was expected of a four boys have individuality about far, however, no one has been soldier. apprehended.
General Staff meetings them and can think and act for were no longer necessary,
themselves, and still work together Nazi Factory Speed-Up mind very quickly and give on and once their leader is gone they the Fuehrer could make up his whereas the Jerries are like sheep
ders to the minutest detail.
tail and run. The Just turn Germany is making a tremen-Nazi Press is even more obsequi-Worry about me--it is much dous effort to increase her war ous in its praise of the Fuehrer. worse for you than it is for me material and industrial output. At Probably at no other time was
as
a recent meeting in the Engine Hitler so eulogised, almost deifled. Halls of Krupp's Munition Fac- tories, Rudolf Hesse, the Deputy] Fuehrer, announced
the begin- ning of the Fouth Efficiency Cam- paign of German enterprises. The underlying idea of the campaign. Is to speed up munition produc- tiveness and to secure higher piece rates in the factories.
The model factory "Nimax" in Neuminster reports that produc-| tion has increased by 71% com- pared with 1939, with the same number of workers. Wages have been raised only by 30%.
Books By Czechs Destroyed
Don't
so keep smiling and chins up." "Just a bit about the Shanghai boys in the R.A.F. Chester: Master poor fellow, is reported 'missing' while Vernon "Stanion has put in some great work and has been awarded the Distinguished Flying
The height of brutal Nazi ab- Cross. surdity has now been reached in As for myself I am keeping very the so-called "Protectorate of fit and have never felt batter, so the former Czech Republic with don't worry!"
a new order just issued, by the, "Protector," Herr. Von Neurath.
The order calls for the removal from all public and private libra- ries in Czechoslovakia of all books
WAR GUILT
by famous Czech writers, among TRIAL
The "French Supreme
A new regulation which became them the brothers. Joseph and effective on June 1, in the Ger- Karel Capek and a number of man building industry. provides other modern Czech writers; akko that the employer pays Labour books by the founder of the Czech Front rates only to workers of Republic, Professor Masaryk, and Court" at Riom. which is "normal" efficiency. Those un by the former President of Czecho-to "decide the war guilt” will resume sessions to-
able to achieve the "normal" stan-slovakia, M. Bones. dard will be puld less, and fixed
rates of wages have ceased to bo In addition to the removal of day. the minimum wage. The employer the above-mentioned works, the
has
the right to declare the "Protector" has also ordered to be The Public Prosecutor will pre- achievement of his best worker as destroyed the books of Czech-sent a formal complaint and de-. the normal standard and to pay Jewish writers: Kafka, Max Brod, mand: the opening of secret In- the rest who do not come up to and others, both modern and clas-vestigations and; hearings. that standard accordingly.
Isic authors. It is interesting that It is not yet.known whether the the works of Lenin, Stalin and names of the defendants will be The "Angriff," organ of the Ger- Gorki have not been ordered to revealed, man Labour Front, announces be removed, but Karl Marx and A Vichy announcement says that that the Nazis are arout to in Ferdinand Lassale have to share Marshal Potain, will brandenst,to- «traduco- the samo -system in all' the fate of other Jewish authors.
day-Reuter,