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Subjugation
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They have been independent out- bursts of the will to conquest. The active policies of Germany and Japan have no primary connection. Indeed, the Japanese invasion of! China at first aroused profound Inlagivings in Germany, just as Ger- many's growing menace and the Pact of Non-Aggression with Russia have apparently swung Italy into neutrality and Japan into hostility.
That Germany intended to throw down the gauntlet regarding Danzig and the Polish Corridor, with or without the Russian guarantee of non-Interference, now seems obvious,, Hitler's scheme of expansion allow- ed for no undue delay. The very large and heavily equipped forces which were instantly deployed into Poland from four directions afford sufficient evidence of the premedita- tion of the stroke; and the ruthless- neas of the methods employed to] cow the resistance of the Polen shows the intention to make the campaign swiftly triumphant,
Much has been made of the fact that in less than three weeks the Nazi forces have succeeded in put- ting the Poles to flight. But what actually is the position? There la authority for believing that the Germans flung seventy divisiona A (approximately 750,000 front line
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troops) across the frontiers. This force has been covered by an over- whelmingly superior German air. force and German mechanised units. Poland, in deference to world opinion, was not even fully mobilia. ed when tho invasion commenced. Her encirclement has been really, complete with the Russian invasion along her entire eastern frontier.
Under these circumstances, the marvel has been that 32,000,000 Poles have been able to keep them- selves steeled for the show-down with 80,000,000 Germana. Austria. and Czecho-Slovakia were countries equally determined to resist aggres- sion-beth fell without firing a shot. The defeat of Poland which (despite resistance which will un- doubtedly continue until Germany and Russia can garrison the entire country) must be regarded as prac-↑ tically accomplished, has not been dishonourable to the 'conquered forces led by Marshal Smigly-Rydz. In many respects there is a simi lority to the resistance led by King Albert of the Belgians to German aggression in 1914—u' resistance doomed from the beginning. Po- Jand, like Belgium, will spend long | and anguished months under the heel of blustering conquerors, but
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only If Nazllam esn prevail over Democracy in the conflict that is really just starting.
A B C TO POLAND
Q: How large la Polind?
A: The six largest State In Europe, with an area of 151,000 square miles. It is almost half as large again as England,
Q: Who are its neighbours?
A lies between Germany and Russia, and is 050 miles wide. On the north are the Baltic States and Ute sea. On the south Hun- gary, Slovakin, and Rumania. It is the cross-roads of Europe.
Q: Is it mountainous or dat? A: Except for the Carpathian Mountains in the south, the country Is a great plain, with broad farme lands, huge forests and many. Takes.
Q: What in the population?
A: Some 35,000,000, of which
70 per cent. ore Poles, 10 per cent are Jews, and 750,000 are Germani (about 2 per cent.).
Q: What sort of people are the Poles?
A Idealism, tolerance, and in- dividuality are marked Polish characteristics. They have a strong sense of dignity.
Mentally, the Pole is alert, but given to theorising. In tende he is not much interested. Poles have made most commercial progress a 7 bridge-builders and railway en- sincers:
Socially, they are hospitable but reserved. Like the Scots,
Q: Name Fume Polen who have become famous.
A: Copernicus, the astronomer, and Marie Curie in science; Chopin and Paderewski in music; King Jan Sebieski, Koseluszko, and P.1- sudski as soldiers; Matejko, the painter, Sienkiewicz, the novelist, and Modjeska, the actress.
Q: How many Poles are there nutside Poland?
A: About 1,500,000 in Ger- many, 4,500,000 in America, 1,000,- 000 in Russin, 500,000 in France, and 200,000 in Lithuania.
Q: Has Polond a coastline? A: Yes, that's the real cause of olf the trouble. The Poles cal. this eighty-five miles of rockbo const their Window on the World. Q: What do the Germans say to this?
A: That the statermen of Ver- sailles gave Poland a coastline by carving a slice out of German territory. This is
"Polisn the Corridor."
4:
coastline?
WHAT use did the Poles make of their
A: They built the largest port on the Baltic, Gdynia, with a turn- over exceeding that of Danzig. Copenhagen, Stockholm, and even Bremen. It cleared 9,000,000 tons of freight in 1938.
Q: As the Poles already have a port, why did they object to Germany having Danzig?
A: Because from Danzig you could shell Gdynia out of existence overnight,
Q: What is Poland's military strength?
A: The standing army of 400,- 000, was expanded to 1,000,000 un the outbreak of war. There ve 9,000,000 trained reserves and "possible `total "force" of "6,000,000, The army is modern and mecha, is- cd.
Q: What was Paland's streng in the air?
A: Estimated at 3,000 aircraft, mostly ghters.
Q: What sort of soldiers do the Poles make?
A: Very good. During the war they distinguished themselves by their courage. And they DTC Bercely patriotic.
DID Britain do much
Q: Di m
A: We bought £9,500,000 of goods from them, mostly bacon, eggs, butter and soft wood. They took £5,400,000 of goods from us, mostly machinery, herrings, cotton yarn, and airplanes.
Q: What were their chief in- dustrica?
A: Poland is mostly agricu}- tural, but was building up metal, chemical and textile industries. She has rich deposits of coal, ait, iron, zinc and lend.
Q: Who is the President?
A: Moscicki.
Q: Who is Colonel Beck?
A: Foreign Minister,
Q: Who is Marshal Smigly- Rydz?
A: Chief of the Army. Q: Outline Polish history.
A: Poland emerged as a Eura- pean Power about 1000 A.D. Reached her peak of prosperity in the sixteenth century.
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For
"Our steady progress is so clear to every man that it hardly needs. colnment." One of the statements quated in "Nazi Nuggets,"
which was thought worthy of illustration.
Well, they
said it
themselves..
following extracts are Half a League
taken from a book just TIRED feel are port of the Nazi published called "Nazi Nuggets,' saga of sacrifice.-Adolf Hitler, edited by Clara Leiser (Gollancz,
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Mama, that man's here again
now,
im-
They are verbatim, from speeches ALL parties that want to join the and articles by Nazi icatlets, and the Reich must join sources are quoted. Comment is un-mediately-Adolf Hitler, September necessary, but in certain instances the 26, 1938. subtitles added by the book's compiler lend additional point to the un-} conscious humour of the authorities Danger-Brains at work quoted.
Ask us another
TOR upon whom did we inflict a single injury in these four years, or from whom have we taken his possessions?-Adolf Hitler, Nurem- berg, September 8, 1938,
INTELLECTUAL activity is a dan-
ger to the building of character.- Dr. Gochbeis, in his novel "Michael."
'ESUS was Aryan on both parents' sides. Pamphlet, Die Herkunft
Jetti.
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WHEN I hear the word "Kultur" CAPITAL punishment will be slip back the sarety-catch of
henceforth inflicted by hanging or my revolver.Hans Johst." shooting, and in Prussia by the axe, which is as a matter of fact the surest kind of execution, as it has never
Riven rise to any ind of complaints THE idea of the National Socialism whatever, Frankfurter Zeitung, August 4, 1933.
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ȚATIONAL Socialism welcomes everything that tends to main- tain the race on n healthy Aryan standard.
Is an accomplishment that ranks with...the Ninth Symphony of Beet- hoven-Dr. Rosenberg.
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CHRIST cannot possibly have been
a Jew. I don't have to prove
It is quite immaterial that scientifically. It is a fact-Dr. whether children arc legitimate Goebbles,
illegitimate.-Deutsche Tertii! Arbeiter (Trade journal).
or
But the Kaiser had a much better
moustache
My friends.
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I TRUST that no mother will ever have cause to weep in consequénice, of any action of mine.-Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg, September 8, 1938.
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Socialist-Slogan
THE Fuchrer belongs to those who T
fuil the will of God and, realise the life of Christ in this life in an extraordinary degree. Dr. D. Cafus issued by the Nazi Health Bureau, Fabricus, German theologian, in a book called "Positive Christianity in May, 1936. *
the Third Reich,"
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We Heard You the First Time
TF, after a period in a concentration camp, anyone falls to appreciate the privileges of citizenship in the Third Reich, he had better leave the country, Julius Streicher, December 21, 1935.
MONDAY: Mashed potato
and
Tuesre a nice joint
fried onions. This makes a very good meal if prepared with a spot of milk and fat, and much love and care. The two latter condiments are free of charge and can be made to enter every dish. Moreover everyone in imagination can in addition.
milk soup with bacon and a marvellous imaginary sausage. Thus half a week is
amply provided for. For the other days TF higher interests demand the dis- clever housewife will manage equally appearance of the Wiener Schnitzel well. A beaming child's face u few then what I say is let the Wiener flowers or a pine branch are beautiful Schnitzel go to the devil-Nazi Com-table decorations-NS Frauenivart, niissioner
(Time, owclal women's paper, August, 1934.
Pretty Heartlan
Jose). Buerckel November, 7, 1938).
Don't Write, Telegraph.
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Mustaken idea,
MOD has manifested Himself not in H [ITLER is lonely. So is God. Hiller is like God-Dr. Frank, Jesus Christ, but in Adolf Hitler. Reich Minister for Justice. -Dr. Engelke, "German Christian" ("Manchester Guardian," July 15, 1938).
Okay by us, Buddy
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HITLER is a new, a greater, and
a more powerful Jesus Christ- Alola Spaniel, Nazi leader in the Sear.
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W Socialism trickle into other A Church Minister Kerri.
DOLF is the real Holy Ghost nations like poison. Nor do we want to force it on to other nations, We selfishly want to keep it for our- rgives-Rudolph. Heas, August 30,
1937. hundred years be- fore and after Eliza- bethan England Poland was the largest country in Europe, taking in Lithuania and large tracts of Russia.
But it collapsed. The victories of King Jan Soblesk! did not stuve off anarchy.
Poland became the battleground of Europe,
Between 1772 and 1795 the coun- try was divided up between Rua- sia, Prussia and Austria, and
ecased to exist,
It was Pilsudski who made mo- dern Poland. He started to lay his plans in 1908.
During the great war Germany selaed Poland. On November 11, 1916, under Pilsudski's leadership, Poland regained her independence.
To the manna born,
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TO European nation has done more for peace than Germany. No nation has made greater sacrifice, — Hitler Nuremberg, September 12, 1933.
KNOW that manna does not drop AR is the simple affirmation of from heaven. In fact, I believe Wilfe. Suppress war and it would this is a typical Bolshevist Jewish be like trying to suppress the opera trick-Dr. Robert Ley, at Stuttgart, tions of nature. These are also ter August 30, 1938.
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rible. Every living thing is terrible. -Ibid.
HISTORY's greatest physician is THE "Aryanlam" of a one hundred
fuehrer, Julius Streicher, August 10, 2037.
per cent "Aryan" will not be affected by blood transfusion from Jewish donors Transfusions from a Jew do not destroy racial purity There's nothing like a broad educa- Prof Loesser, of the Nazi Race Dept., tion.
October. 21, 1935.
NONCENTRATION, campa are no
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WWE know where we begin, but
COMRADE HITLER
(and friends) said this of
Russia.
RAY the world's great states
"MAY
men ́never forget that Germany prevented the spread o Bolshevism."--General Goering election speech in Danzig, Apri 4, 1935.
"Germany Is the bulwark”, o the West against Bolshevism), and In combating it, will meet torre with terror and violence wit violence."—Hitler, Nov. 27, 1935) Soviet Government- "hysterical and criminal politic maniacs."--Goebbels, Dec. 1915
The
"So far as ever this Bolshevisi draws Germerty into its clutche we are the deadliest and mo fanatical enemies."-¿Hitler, Mr 21, 1935.
"We will sign non-aggressi pnets with all the world, provide only that we are treated fair) We will not sign mull-Inter pact of mutual assistance in Q no clrcumstanc
east,
for
would Germans fight for Bolsh vists. In such a fight our natl simply would not march. Rath than sign such a pact I shou hang myself."--Hitler, May 193
"I tremble at the thought what
our over-populated Co Unent would be bound to becoi should the chaos of a Bolshoy revolution succeed in imposing us a destructive Asiatic concept of life. I shall prevent Germ from entering this path to rul -litter, March 8, 1936, in speech beginning: "We have territorial claims in Europe."
"Soviet Russia wants no pe His indeed the Power which hostile to peace."-Ifitter, Ber March 1036.
"Nothing binds us closer National Sociallen than the r realisation we are in the mids I world which is kept in a of decomposition and spiritual by Jewish Bolsheviks Moscow."Hitler, Sept. 13, IS
roar
With one single country a we have detested to enter relationship. That State is Sc Russia-Hitler, Feb 20, 1938. "Germany is the next objective of Bolshevism,
is folly to be too intimate wh Power whose ideal might “best the deadly enemy of our full
Hitler, "Mein Kampf."
FUEHRER STALIN
(and friends) said this of Germany
courze,
"It is quite possib that there are maden in Ger many who dream ofiniexing the elephant, that tse Soviet Ukraine, to the gnamely, the 50-called Carpathia Jkraine. It there really aro se lunatic in Germany rest aruld that we shall and
enous strait-jackets for them in our outry."-Stalin, March 10, 1939,
Comintern take of increasing the Red Army as the surest in- strument for king Germany, "for we know at Hitler means war, and Hites overthrow by proletarian revoltion will destroy for ever Germar's imperial war-
Lared nest." Instruïons Comintern foren sections, April 1935.
to
"The Soviel Government re- Joices that his able to organise together in Micow those countries which have interest in work- Ing against Germany."Radio announcer, Moscow, March 15, 1935.
of
oggressor German"the to-morrow who already menaces the peaceof Europe. Journal de Moscou, fct. 12, 1935.
"The min aim of the Com- munist party is to bring about the union of all opposition forces and to overthrow the barbarous Nazi'
German
Communist, regime." Florin, Cominter Congress, Aug. 193.
"Clorly Germany is the enemy And Becurity. Herr of jeace Hill's is not a programme of peare, but of war, war both in the west and the east of Europe, Article in all Soulet newspapers, May 23, 1035.
I have permitted myself to speak with complete frank- ness
because the manier in which Herr Hitler allows himself to speak in public of the State I of the represent relieves me necessity of resorting to circumlo- cution. I have, all the more right to do so because the whole sense. of Herr Hitler's statements and proposals amounts to a comTM aign, against the peoples of the State 1 represent Litvinov, st. League Council · ! meeting, James's Palace, March 17:11936.
"There is no crime against the world and civilisation which the Fascist swastika, in inokpable of Radek, Feb., 11.1937-TA
disgrace. On the contrary the only God know where we will preparing."--Pravda, after trial of.
are an ornament to, Kultur. Here neglected individuals are educated to one day" end. Dr. Goebbles, Im real life with the firmest kindness. Spiegel von Freund und Feind.