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Eward Banse
What does Nazi Germany think of France? Why did Hitler "invade Belgium and Holland?
Below, Professor Eward Banse re- veals the secrets of German' thought
to you.
He is one of the Nazi heirachy in Germany, and wrote, in 1933, what was to become the text book of the German military machine. A copy of the book was received in London and, despite strenuous efforts on the part of the Nazis, was translated into English.
Professor Banse's indiscretions per- mit us to know, in even more astonish- ing detail than does "Mein Kampf”, the reasons that have made Germany the most hated and most feared country. the world has ever known.
The words below are the words of Germany, as placed on paper by the author of its modern military text-book.
Now
TOW read what he has to
say about his country's neighbours in the west, and remember that this is the opinion of all Nazis and of many Germans who are not Nazis,
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We Germans readily admit tirat the present boundary line is 48 uncommonly advantageous one for France, but no one must take it amiss if we modestly indicate our
spirationa_for_the_future,
From our point of view the best frontier would run from the Jura along the ride to the west of the upper Moselle and the upper Meuse and then, bending westwards and keeping south of the chalks and tertiary regions, to the valley of the Somme and sy to the sea-or at the very least along the chalk ridge of Artois.
This frontler has, of course, the disadvantage that it takes in a French population, but that could be got over by mak- ing a present of these sons and daughter of France to their under-populated motherland.
most
On the other hand, it possesses great advantages. It would destroy the fortress-like character of the Paris basin. deprive the French игту
of the strategicnily important scarps, and ensure that the opening engagements in war after next shall take place In a region which has fewer natural defences and from which Paris can be reached more quickly.
Le
Besides that, the Channel ports of Boulogne and Calais, which are eusential for bokling the pistol to England's head as well as most of the coal and iron (Lillo. Briey), will be in our hands. Incidental- ly, a considerable portion of the was farinerly -country involved
German speaking and the rest of it is full of vld Gerinan (Frankish) place names.
The Maginot
Line
THE whole northern and eastern frontier of France has been en- the ormously strengthened, since War; in particular a new defen- alve selieme, started in 1920, ls fo by 1834. The It impregnable by make
nain feature of the scheme is the estabiliment of permanent forti- fled areas, each occupied by two divisions, Such areas are:-
1.-in the region of the western
to the Alps, from Nice
upper and the Durance valleys of the
up Are, which commands, the proaches from the Italian river Dora Riparia; and the head of the valley of the Isere, which secures those from the Dora Balten:
2. obviously, the opening be- tween the Jurn and the Vosges ut Belfort.
3. two in Lorraine; one to the north west of Hagenau and Worth; the other in front of Metz, both connected by an area- all prepared for flooding in the Saar basin to the south of Saargenund.
Besides these permanent fortified areas, which are located at the natural weak points in the fron- tier, numerous strongly fortified posts have been planned, if not already constructed-one at the fort of the Vosges; a couple in front of Saarburg and south cast of Metz which are also escheloned behind two fortified areas; a couple wweat of Metz and south of Longwy
and a completely detached one in the region of the upper Schelde,
French which has the plain of
eft; this Flanders directly on il lett; plain can be flooded by arrange ment from somewhere west of
Douai to the sca
near
Calais. There Is yet a third means of de-
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME: THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS" SPLENDID CHARGE.
SECRETS
of the
NAZI WAR
MACHINE
lunities to establish their country's much discussed "security."
Paris sits like a spider in the middle of an admirably planned and spun web of steel. In the world war it gave brilliant proof of its efficiency, especially handling traffic behind the main curve of the front and between the British and French sectkins of the IInc.
Paris Is
Key To France
in
Without Paris, with all its troops and railway sintions, on ils left could Banit, the French numy hardly have won the race to the sea in September 1914,
the
One of the most important tasks for the establishment of peace on
the weakening, noy carth extermination, as far as that is of the Germanic element
possible,
wars,
in France.
conducted Ruthlessly which will reduce the numbers of this French warrior caste; trans- portation of detachments of them to an eastern Germany of the future, where they would soon became Germanised; cross-breed- Ing of those that remain with southernera and negroes, which matter the French. mill- tary authorities have themselves progressive shown
WAY; means to the decline and foll of France.
Hence we approach the problem of our future relations with France not merely from a political and military but also from an ethnologi- cal point of view.
vict
All the wrongs that the France did to the western Germany In her wars of extermination and rapine must be paid back in kind.
The bloody de-northernising of France must be one of the main liems of Germany's defence pro- gramme, for only in this way can blood- eternally restless thirsty neighbours be shorn of of their spiritual and physical powers,
our
some
ex-
A frontier such as the one ui- ready described, within which the French language might be tirpated in half a century, would, of course, be h-great-help in this topic.
French Strength
Was Surprise
In
the War the French soldier- fence which the French are nl-1-refer-primarily to the northern remly getting ready in peace time Frenchman--proved himself a
road barricades.
The biggest are altuated:in' the Jura; behind the ridge of the Vosges; in front of the. Meuse from Verdun to somewhere north of Mezieres.
midale
railway France
It must not be forgotten that a well-planned, troup of similar de fences in the oast of Belgium fams a useful extension of the French line towards the north. When one also conskiers that the system of north eastern and Belgium has been developed to such a pitch that it can rush an of millions into defenceless along.., thirteen railways work work ing in conjunction with motor roads, in a few days, one is bound to admit that the French illiary authorities have inade a splendid and admlenble' use of their oppor
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army
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main
Aghter with skilful
plenty of endurance, even if not quite the Englishman's stubbornness in de- fence
He knew how to conduct him- self in the open, and quickly seized any little advantage that came his way.
And the rapidity with which he pulled himself together.after the
tho delcat of NUMARQUE
first month of the War and resolutely turned round in full retreat. to. face us at the decisive battle of the Marne on September 0, 1914, came as a surprise on the whole Im to us. he artillery on The
than the infantry... pressed-uj less.. In general, it was not so much the individual soldier on the spirit pervading the whole army that alatained the honour of France in the world war.
That spirit was entirely northern
of
Petain,
in character, and emanated from that dominant upper class generals and deputies-embodied in men like Joffre, Nivelle, Forh and
all dicmenceau- and, above who, with a ruthless and able energy, never took their eyes of their twofold object, which was to maintain France's greatness and cost Their
preponderance, own what t
might.. Nothing could divert these men aim; they were pre- front
their pared to strike absolutely intag if
only that was achieved. This ruling class of republican France compels one's admiration, world for It has no equal in the sheer energy; all the more reason Then, why it must be destroyed.
Never in
even the past, not under Napoleon, have the destinles uided by such of France been resolute, such brutally ruthless hands as they are today.
"Italy Left
Us In Lurch”
any-
France would have had her war
on two fronts also, had not Italy
left us in the lurch.
removed hostile pressure
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railway system behind them, nority for "security" le cunningly
the Germans succeeded in out- Hanking the enemy; both length
their ened
lines in a series of frontal encounters as far as Flan
where our advance failed, ders,
wing to the use of imperfectly trained, if gallant, new levies and the flooding of the country by the Belgians. By October 18. 1014, the whole western front was ess ublished.
All in all, the Franco-Anglo- Belgian army camo olf better in the race to the sea than the Ger 1002.
After-the-battle-of-the Marne on essential September 12-13, the thing was, for the Germans, to extend their ine along the valley of the Samme as far as thie Chan- nel;: for the enemy, to
bend the Ger man line as fur back from the sea as possible at Naron.
In this the enemy were so far
that they sttccessful
saved the 1 safe Channel ports, secured Manoeuvring ground for the com- ing British army between Dunkirk and Amiens, of the same time re- laining a very numerous populu- tlon, the richest in Germanic blood. for France, and giving the German the of trenches the most disad
shape imaginable by vantageous the salient at Noyon.
All that the Germans could set against that was, the occupation of the coal mining and industrial aren of northern France; the rich mines fact of merc of
Briey; and the
of French ter- possessing mph which was not
triumph 'ritory, sumcient, as the course of the War proved, elther to Intimidate the enery or attract the neutrals.
Passing over France's share in the confiscation of the German colonies (the Cameroons und Togo- land), also her disgraceful and towards bloodthirsty
behaviour German civilians in her colonies, and having already discussed else where her military activities in the Dardanelles, Macedonia, and northern Italy, we will proceed to a few final observations on the fundamental-nature-of German relations.
Franco-
Since her palitcal consolida- tion in the middle of the 18th century, France has
beca tie arch-enemy of our people and All existence as a nation. this time she has been the con- tinual aggressor, her goal being
Rhine frontler.
our
from the French Alps, and
enabled Army at
least on
This
den
fluent.
since then For the fact that there has existed no state which we have Included all Germans
to thank France and her for passion ingrained
the Con- her to use the troops assigned to
all the decisive
Thoughts and All the on the their defence
free on
num-
actions of the French nation urg northern front, where their
subordinated to that one great end, bers, in conjunction with the sud- of the German
and its whole intellectual achleve- weakening
of two withdrawal line by the
ment is but a means to the attain- of the Rhine and the dis- army corps, tipped the seale at the
German the of memberment France was battle of the Marne.
whole thus able to put her
hole people.
of equal in- Both natoris are the north-eastern Into strength
the tellectual rank, both are highly addition to which
took British expeditionary force
glited with creative genius; but in all matters of politics the French the left flank.
are superior to the Germans, ewing to their national solidarity, their more pronounced corporate sense, their greater devotion to the n tional ambitions, and their superlor willingness to go along with the ruling class in this direction. Alsace And
front, in
he luck which the
French tilgher command had at the Marne was more than it deserved; for its plan of campaign was a notably poorer one than the German, and its execution left so much to be desired that it degenerated into a beadlong retreat.
The execution of the German plan was not first rate either. but it only came to grief througli one of the maddesi, purely' per- soni mistakes in the whole of millary history.
Lorraine
to-morrow
Hence France le a much more dangerous, because more resolute This mistake, and this
action than many, s. to France. And
Germany resciled France from destruction
the extraordinary things is that the and presented the French army
world
nothing unlas with its "victory" of the Marne, a
whole
nation a single Hardly in which it had
so Uitle victory in
hote. belick itself that it only followed would, worry is head if Franco
the declared
whole it up tardily and did not begin to
tili Rhine to be her eastern frontier feel that it had won a victory ill September 12.
(did a single nation do so when was raging Even the most essential thing the Blackt pestilence namely, to outflank the exposed on the Rhine), but there are right wing of the Germans, who plenty of them to get on their
hind
the Jegs Verdun, and retired
moment Germany German ber to fetch wanls Rheims-Noyon line anew-was not
brethren in Alsace and Lorraine done; all the French accomplished
back into the Reich! was to push back the German line northwards from Noyon.
on
the
To be sure, even this turned out the well for them, for it gave German line, which became per- manently established here, an ex- tremely unhealthy wallent and kept it from the Channel ports, which were of capital importance for the landing of English troops.
Race To
The Coast
In the race to the coast neither" the French, in spite of the better
With such restless, ambitious, resolute and brutal nation as the French, obviously there can be no Question
of peaceful, neighbourly relations--so much should be clear from history of the last four hun- dred years,
11. In a question of eat or be But for the peace of the eaten.
disguised
aggression plus, per- haps, the fear that springs from a had conscience, seeing how long France has been allowed to work our border ber wicked will on
with
almost complete Im- lands punity.
As short a while ago as i919 the French military authorities, prompted by the ambitions I have described, demanded the annexa- tion of the whole left bank of the Ithine, which was only prevented with great difficulty by the English and Arnerleans.
What France would really like to see is a small Gerinny wedged in between the thine and the Oder and split up into numerous Independent small states.
All movements calculated to dis- integrate Germany, whether inside or outside Its borders, are sure of French support.
France Invented separatism on The Rhine and lents every sort of id, financial and otherwise, to the the German, Marxists of whatever shade of opinion; the planted Poland
Czecho-Slovakia on frontier and armed them, and it was she who pre- vented the union between us and Austria, for the intimidation of whom
our
and eastern
she also supported the south- ern Slays. Wherever we turn in Europe France stands in the way, ready to humiliate and damage us. But these dragon's teeth which France has own will one day surely produce their terrible crop
Belgium In
on
German Eyes
winw
the
Belgium is one of those miser able states who have been created outer hem of Germ AN the
of national territory, in deflance all the facts of nationality, under French, and in this case perhaps also English, influence, with
of making the numbers of abjeet of the German race less formidable by splitting them up politically and thus weakening them as a whole. The territory of Belgium was de- tached from Holland In 1830
July revolution:
in 1839 it was declared an inde-
the by
powers pendent entity and given "perpetual" neutrality, which having performed its anti- German function-was abolished at Versailles In 1910, Belgium been having in the meantime openly incorporated as an import- member of the league of Germany's enemles.
ant
Belgian
"Atrocities"
The region between Liege and Mons, right on the Paris-Berlin railway line, is the region whose miring and manufacturing POPE- lation, Inclied by Catholte priests and Latin nationalisis, inflicted so much damage by their guerilla methods on our troops marching the through the atrocities of sharp-boolers of Dinant Lieze are notorious enough. -
Obviously a population of this sort, with Francophile ruling class and Indifferent masses, looked between on the outbreak of war and
Germany France
chießy through French eyer; and the mo- was violated ment their neutrally
and
by Germany, they took the French side, some with passionate ardour, others through sheer stupidity.
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Wednesday, MAY 15, 1940.
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Brussels and Paris, which slips in between the south eastern tip of Holland and the Venn mountains, was blocked by Llege.
this unex- fortress
The assault delivered on exceedingly
und strong pectedly well-defended from the directions of Aix-la-
(Anchen), Eupen and Malmedy was not entirely succes5- ful, the last fort only falling ten days later; still, the advance of our right Bank had really only Just begun, and Belglia, in so far as we needed it to get to France. now lay open before us.
Overrunning
Of Belgium
The overrunning of Belgium.by
our troops (the First, Second,
Third and Fourth armies) had the following results: (1) the advance nt the Third. Fourth and Fifth French armies across the southern frontier of Belgium; and (2) the withdrawal of the Belgium army from Liege to the furtress or Antwerp, which thus became a centre nt hostile activity in the
of our right wing as it hur rear ried south westwards. Antwerp therefore had to be invested by a small-force specially detalled for the purpose and was captured, though also a very strong fortress. in only 12 days; unfortunately the Anglo-Belgian army was able to get away towards the west and establish Itself behind the Yser and the dykes of Nieuport which the Belgians pierced,where formed the exceedingly important left wing of the future permanent front.
In the further course of the War the Flanders front was so ob- stinately defended by Belgian and English troops that we succeeded in pushing it in.
never
From Nieuport on the sea vin Ypres and Arinentleres to Lens and the foot of the chalk hills of Artols the line ran through the Flanders plain, where the high level of the ground water made the construction of trenches ̈ ex- Ptionally difficult and that of practically Impossible and in rainy weather produced a great quagmire where every man, and beast and vehicle sank in mud-choked rifles only loo often falled to
to function,
outs
"Quite apart from bullets, Flan- ders was the soldier's hell
To-day Belgiumi has become purely a French dependency; in-
"As we have seen le deed, from the military, point of
had no independent
the
for in proth the German and the French, plans of campaign: Germans looked upon it as the way through for their right wing. the
or at least French regarded it, its southern portion, as the place where the German
man right wing wox to be annihilated
Apart from that, Belglum played.
an Important part in the politics of the War, Innsmuch as the Eng Ush government knew of the In- tended Gorman violation of Bel- glan neutrality. In case of a war at least as far back as 2011, and welcomed it; because it the only thing that would reconcile English public
opinion with Germany and reuse the feel. Ings of the world.
Was
to a war
To the passage of the Germans (who Incidentally offered to re- after store | Belzlan hotirality the war) Belgium was able to
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world it is undoubtedly far botopnose the fortresses of Licke ter thani-lão final - victory should a real with spesso loving-nasion ......, tika,,the,, Genew, not will*, restless and perpetually covetous v one like the French
All French talks about the tiesica.
and Antwerp, which were mirably constructed and protect ed by a ring of forts, as well as: her army, which, look up; its posillon near Louvain.
The best route from Germany to
view it is simply a part of France. Therewith Liego his become a jumping off ground into Germany instead of a barricade against her, and the function of Antwerp is no longer to threaten our right flank. but perhaps to provide a take oft Into Holland.
the
The only arrangement Klimt would satisfy us is that pre should either have Ficmblu Bel- alam, which is obviously the right thing · on 'grounds of na- tionality or allernatively, whole of Belgium, considered as the hinterland of north eastern France, the possession of which Le also necessary to our security.
The latter alternative is, pre- ferable, because the linguistic frontier, which runs from Calais Costwords
and vla
St. Omer Roubaix to Liege, gives a bad line for milliary purposes.
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Flan- Our army can only hold dors along the line of its natural, of southern frontier, the hilla. Artolor-better-sull:In the valley of the Somme, ak thair, foot;, from which the natural extension to the Argonne and tie upper ̈Molises follow as matter of cours
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