THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1952.
Listen, gentlemen, strike
No damage can match the terrible disease of doubt
on
¡OR 36 hours after the famous July 20 plot Hitler's life I found myself in supreme command of all the German armies of the interior and in the satellite countries of the Reich. I
ed to action instead of to palavering might have succeeded.
And the mere attempt caused such chaos that it may be taken as a model for the "confusion agents" of a World War III.
. He
The first I heard of the, conspiracy was when my troop-train out of Berlin was a lieutenant-colonel. I halted at a station. An officer ran down was 33. And I had in those the platform. 1.vo days terrifying bawling my name, glimpse of how the most "Highest orders," efficient war machine in the panted.
a
was
INSTALMENT 3 of
he
THE TOUGHEST MAN
As Told To CHARLES FOLEY
"You are wanted
world can be completely at once in Berlin. An attack seized-up by a single jolt..
has been made on the Fuchrer's life!"
Torrifying then, but fub
ALIVE
at the brain
That bomb plot made Hitler a physical wreck so i took over control myself for the 36 hours.
till Himmler came to relieve me
Otto Roy
polliicians living in the past, Hestation, ignorance, compro- misu are fatal. I had to fight all three.
Glyen time to plan, absolutely nothing is impossible. With 115 it was always improvisation; that is why we sometimes fa- ed,
There was
The plat made 1er a phys went secretly at least understand the
of promise for the future, Buck in Berlin the chair- when such
He opportunities borne warriors were throw- will be made and skilfully ing a' panie parly, exploited against an enemy,
At Walton SS headquarters Take the crisis as it stood. they distributed pistols to all Clerks Our troops were fighting hands, Six frightened desperately on all fronts, tried to stop me at the door.
threw them into the cellors and
The Allies had broken locked them up after depriving through in Normandy. In them-much
to their relief-of the East 30 German divi- their dangerous toys. slons had suddenly capitu- lated.
Thirty divisions.
Centre of plot
I
More N
TONE of the staff officers knew than the total effective
what was happening or who forces facing Russia in had risen against whom. But all
gesticulated Europe today.
wildly with
re- volvors when I questioned them. They were sending armoured units out against Millary In- telligence HQ.
The conspiracy
WE soldiers struggled on.
consequences of ponie.
cal and moral wreck. From then en he trusted nobody. Next time War I saw him he had aged terribly:
of he had to clutch his left hand with his right to stop it trembi- in
IL seemed that the Ministry was at the centre the plot. I raced to the build ing, Remer-the general who is now said to fancy himself as an- other German fuehrer-had al-
the surrounded
War ready Ministry with his troops.
Hysterically he berated his field-marshals before the entire General Staff.
Operation Vichy, to Marshal
Picin's capital, In a week
Out when Group C-to vanish for ever in the Russian vold. Group D missed Scherhorn, but three weeks later they rejōlaed us with vital information,
Meanwhile we dropped doctors and supplies of all kinds to our lost army. Scherhorn began to bulld a landing strip from whleft we could take off 20 ́at]]
lime.
two nad laid an invisible heavy
change
noose around the elly.
I was ready to kidnap and transport the entire French Government to Paris. The order did not come..
It seems laughable now, but n31 the German Intelligence whether Petali was working for Germany or against her.
Wie destruction of confidence As 1 arrived at midnight in the enemy camp will be services simply could not decide General Fromm, commander-In- major war aim of the future. chlof, got into his car. "I am Thôt is striking of the going home now," he said. We No germ warfare can compare
with the terrible discase saw him no more.
doubt,
Inside the War Ministry 1 General Beck_had just found
Three staff committed suicide. officers had been shot by Aring squad. Nobody knew what to do
next.
such a
Think how Heaven knows what would
vacuum We know of nothing else have happened if I had not could
be filed by a hostile Power that knew fis business, to do. But for a handful of stopped this.
Ceneral
Student,
er of our airborne troops. I
A
for high stuff officers around I went round tooking
command- Hitler there was an alter- native. They conspired to
tracked him to his villa. kill him with a suitcase pretty teene-Student was peace- bomb.
fully reading while his wife worked at her embroidery. He had not heard the news.
The plot was fumbled trust staff bunglera for that. Yet the fact that Hitler was wounded shows how easily a few men train
roT
N
Marshal Goering telephoned from the Fuchrer's HQ: "For heaven's sake avold any incident that might plunge us indo civil war."
Moral wreck
brain.
Improvisation
BUT
of
Then the Russians launched attacks ort them. A cf plan. Wo told Scherhorn to go northward 160 miles to a lake area where we might use ice for runways.
The lost army
UR 2,000 had been cut off in June 1944. It was November when the northword march There was the commando raid began. All the way we dropped on the Iraq pumping stat ons warm clothes and more equip- Elx captured Flying Fortresses ment to beat off the constant
Sevlet attacks. we were 10 use for transport British were destroyed in bamber rald. No more could be found.
DUT to make sure the arteries
also must be cut. Next time, If ever I had nightmares I deadly forms of surprise will should prefer not to recall our capture last and most spectacular effort. paralyse, great cities,
I do so now "because it is factory centres strangle the pipelines of supply pointer the future, by methods the enemy will not suspect until he is gasping for
is irc.
THERE was nothing left but to take over myself until a "afe" general could be ap pointed. So for 36 hours I was free to move reserve armies and equipment all
Hitler's Europe, The fighting fronts had
Is all. to be kept going.
over
from the
Four groups
Д
Scherhorn's
progress
agonisingly slow-ten, five miles a day.
WAS seven
Now it was February 1945.
By then I was myself trying to hold the Russian onslaught in command of a division.
Petrol supplies for the supply flights ran down, Every night I listened helpless to Scherhom's | appeals: "Help 115. Do not forget us."
Page
bier
All these wonderful projects SOMEWHERE in Russia, In the
aur clearing spare
Vast forcats north of Minsk, depend on
The lost army reached the for men with the vision to look. 2,000 German troops were cut
could not beyond mass arrales and mass off hundreds of miles behind frozen lakes. We
new con- the Soviet lines. It by some fetch them. We could not help bombardments to a coption of war where initiativa means they could be got out it them. Now. they were dying of
would provo to our reeling hunger. armies in the East that no fight
We heard the last dim call schemes. Is ever hopeless,
and
from Scherhorn on May 6. He.. Again, 20 men attempted the did not know that Germany impossible. We formed four and surrendered two days be- groups, each of two German fore. I am glad to recall that, soldiers and three Baltic volun- before it was too late, we teers who spoke Hussian. dropped him the Knight's Cross.
At last I was relieved-by 95 Some of my finest Reichsfuchrer Hirenler himself. were slified. by generals
HOW THE RUSSIANS FALSIFY HISTORY
the only does U.S.S.R. keep the facts
By DENNIS BARDENS
All were disguised in Soviet uniforms false
papers,
clipped to the skull,
rations in their packs.
hair
History
this will. record
a triumph. These
as Russian tragedy
men fought and survived, for a
Group A dropped 350 miles whole year. They lasted out
Dia Inside enemy territory to find the war.
Service.)
the lost army, which was led
What will the future hold by a Colonel Scherhorn. They when full divisions will be radioed "Bad landing. We are sustained and lavishly supplied under fire." did not hear by air in areas far behind the "to the pitch of malevolence. He from them
again.
tide of battle? was "the lackey of the Anglo-
Group B
went over. Fout Amerleau imperialists." An nights of silence. Then the (World Copyright—London Expres article in Obrana Ladu describes call-sign with the secret signal him as "the arch-enemy of which told us they were talking Czech - Soviet friendship." freely and not at the point of Petrov, in Voprasy Istorii, says Soviet revolvers. Glorious news, that Benes was "bitterly hostile They had reached Scherhorn. to the Soviet Union rund "cri minally loyal to his fellow bout- Ecois in the West."
of history from her own people; she is compel- ling her satellites to re- shuffle their historics to con- sentence for two, and 15 and 12 expansion, under new manage. years' imprisonment for the ment, seem like a crusade of form to Communist theories.
others were a gruesome pub peace, and to dub as "enemies, licity stunt intended to dissuade "bourgeois," "capitalists" and A curious item of news other Poles from listening to so on, all who resist Soviet slipped out of Poland, via Western broadcasts.
aggression.
Was it "hostile" for an exiled This policy has Warsaw Radio in Novem- There was more to it than
now been President, in the midst of war ber, 1951. It was reported that, however. Professor Schoen- Imposed upon Russia's satelllles. and all its risks, to travel 1,000
have
been that four young men had brenner's "history" is a perver. Pollsh historians
negotiate a treaty? And why been charged in
Warsaw slon of the facts in line with instructed to rewrite their hitales from London to Moscow to and a delegation from the should Benes loyalty to his Communist ideology: Important
Soviet with having committed
Academy of
Western alles be "criminal"? A detalls in Polish history, are
SECT# zit number of armed robberies. omitted, faked accounts added,
Government reted they must reach! At the Polish Bases "emligre" Two were pupils
and of
everything misic Historians' Congress in
1951 ure interesting bcause they
how hich Soviet speakers sald bluntly show secondary technical school to make the Russian
Communists of Poland a country which aged 20, one was a 19- the Soviet Union stabbed in the that Polish scholars must re- think. For why should "emigre" year-old student of Warsaw back when her Nazi ally, Ger- shuffle historical facts to fit be a team of abuse, as it always
is in Communist jargon? University and the other a many, Invaded in 1939 seem Stalin's theories.
#1
20-year-old clerk. They were accused, inter alla, of hav- ing held up at the gun- point! Professor Janina Schoenbrenner, co-author
like a natural historical develop- ment.
even told them the can offences Petrev's constart
the
Patriots who resisted Russian invasion come in for special abuse even the late President Benes of Czechoslovakia, who The Communists profess to be 19 still venerated in his anti-Fasciat, though they os-
and
the
untit whose reputa- slated country,
Germans To these youths, therefore,
the tion
Communists
Russia herself was attacked, Professor Schoenbrenner's book striving hard to
arc. Ho' As Czechoslovakia was in the of the newly-published WAS 00 odious act of treason. tried "History of Poland," and Their action was ill-advised and
conscientioustroy
to be grip of the urope, what was to form a of demanding from her a brought tragedy upon them, friendly with Russia on tarins of
government on free soil, from which to continue the fight for liberation? All this, however,
of the Rusalan atte
attempt
loved.
mutual respect, and in
the
"contribution" of 50,000 but it was an act of pairiotism middle of the wor, in 1943, un- zlotys for writing the book. half of the Poland they dertook the long and dangerous
journey to Moscow to conclude Professor Scheenbrenner, of Treaty of Friendship. course, is only one of a large not distinguished company
and
a
professor? What had their des Hushed and censored by the Foreign Minister, he repcated at
State
more natural
is pretend that the world war,
to
In which she was involved re- luctantly, belatedly and entirely In her own self-defence, woS
efforts.
preserve
the
The case, superflolally, makes of renegade scholars or bogus little sense to anyone outside the academicians hired by the Com- Benes saw that, after the war, won by her unaided "Iron Curtain." For example, municts to falsify latory. his country must get along with But Petrov lets the cat out of If the youths were ordinary Faking text-books has long been its powerful neighbours if the the bag when he says, apropos gangsters, why did they select a standard practice in Soviet neighboury would permit it. In the Moscow negotiations:
All reading matter is his report to Masaryk, his mand for money to do with her
"He (Benes) sought to bourgcola DI- history book? How writing. o
and since culture and the time: "In the whole course did it come about that three of education
there was der, He wished to retain harnessed to of the negotiations are
will the four accused were studenter Communiam their Job is to not one instance when the the emigre Government And if the youths demanded a eliminate anything, that might Soviet representatives did not the addition of a few Com-
contributions," on was alleged, reflect discredit
But the decl- upon the emphasise at the appropriate munist lenders. for what was this contribution fussians.
moment that Czechoslovak home tive successes of the Red Army Intended?.
Thus the Soviet Union is affairs did ook interest them in forced him to agree to the There was no complaint of portrayed as having acquired a any way and that they would formation of nationat commit
teca, a new form of democratic physicut violente, though the sixth of the world's landed sur- never interfere.". youths,
trusted his Rusdan State organization." according to the face by "defending the weak evidence, were armed with a against the strong. One elemen hasts, wio could afford to be
The admission that the prov gun. And a lot of subsidiary tory school text-book formetly free with their promises, baving
of the. nu kitention of honouring them, senco
Red Army In cvidcbee: dragged in to bolster In use in Russia stated that nt In the wake of the Red Army, Czechoslovakia was a factor a charge serious enough in it the siege of Sebastopol, In the › which brokoj in from Rußtienu, which "forced" the President
robbery, be
War, Russian soldiers wh
He plundering and raping the to agree to meatures of which daily by
The Slovaks on their way, come the he disapproved is also an ad- Huuled to facia 4037
edition was
Secret Police. The key posts of mission that tho Ruscions
dis they fought heroleally the Ministry, of the Interior, of honoured their piomléc of 1913 Pedagogy, compulsory Propaganda. Use Army and not to Interfere in Czeclio- be in the hal; of listening to reading for all school teachers, Education, wore seized by the slovakia's internal affairs. Bo
trayúd, the
der of the Com
munista est
lest uncensored
should step in from the outside rend world: the youths were said to
paration and the poice: '
Benes
the British Broadcasting Cor- a partisan who died before a Communists, eveni, in 1940, even in thels attempts to fako
of German firing squad in the first under thinly-veiled threals of history, the Communista somo
edition dies singing the "Inter- force..
PARA MALimes revadi the roul fatto, As
Artieriços
In Bhurk the viciqué sontonces nationale in the recundi The A campaign to blacktem. Hones the Crochan say, "Travila Vilezi's gazzed on these boya- tio death purpose is to make-Tuariat name has now been whipped up Truth will prevail.
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