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"

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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1939

"HITLER SPEAKS”

By Dr. Rauschning

GET RICH QUICK BEHEST

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"Don't marry till I am in power," years of inhuman struggle. I have Hitler used to advice his lieutenants, asked them whether they would pre- the Gauleiter, the Reich leaders and fer me to let my S.A. men loose to others who looked upon their posts loot in the streets. I could still do as secure and permanent jobs, and ex- this, I said. I had no objections. And pressed a wish

it to live prosperous,

would

be more wholesome comfortable lives.

the people to endure "Occupy positions,"

really bloody revolu- was Hitler's

tion for some weeks. I had refrained slogan as soon as he came to power.

only out of consideration for them and To seize everything available in the way of jobs was the rule everywhere. I could easily make up for it! They their bourgeols love of comfort. But "We are no spoil-sports. Fires need fuel," was the whisper going round the corridors outside Hitler's offices. "Building up one's own position," was the motto of the first few months after the seizure of power.

very quickly ceased making their foolish reproaches!" Hitler laughed.

mud, only to be sent home with empty "Are we to pull their cart out of the hands? They would like that, wouldn't "I give my men

they? How can I hold the power un- every freedom,' Hitler said, in the course of a dinner-men? They ought to be glad we don't less I have every post occupied by my table conversation. "Do anything you shoot them, as they do in Russia!" like, but don't be caught at it!"

"

The teachings of Hitler had a prompt effect. The road to destruction was

It was Hitler himself who egged on his men quite intentionally to make the most of their opportunities. They paved, not with good, but with thor- needed no second bidding.

oughly evil intentions. There spread It was then that I heard the curious expres-only shortly before would have been through the party a cynicism which sion: "planned corruption."

The Fuehrer

inconceivable. There were two things himself, however, waived his claims to the Chancellor's everyone in the party, big or small, salary, thus setting a good example.loot and the enjoyment of unrestrain- strove for: apart from the collection of He could well afford to do so. Over-

night he had become the richest publi-ed licence, immunity for the past and sher in the world, worth millions, and the most widely read author-read un- der compulsion. He could afford to complain about Goering's excesses and extravagance. He complained de- monstratively, thereby reassuring opinion in certain quarters. Hitler was "most unhappy" about Goering's re-

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security for the future. The universal aim was to have a share in everything, to take no risks, to keep one's head above water, and above all not to sink down again into the anonymous, powerless mass. The lobbies were all crowded with job-hunters. Quite openly they made their demands. "The Fuehrer said so," they would announce naively. "All the old fighters are to have jobs and bread. We haven't fought to go empty-handed.” î

Someone asked me for the post of councillor of state. He was not in- terested in the post itself or the salary, but the pension. He wanted security for all time. What sorry fighters they were.' Wretched little petits bourgeois

our promise that there should be no salaries over a thousand marks month." It was all very well for Forster to talk. He had five separate posts. His income amounted to about a dozen times the stipulated Eventually he became the owner of extensive house property in Danzig. Two years earlier he had arrived in Danzig with an empty cigar-box.

sum.

whose fear of the future flickered in their eyes!

one of

Matters were no different in Berlin. "I won't get down again!" A newly appointed secretary of state them screamed at me angrily. "Per- had his apartments furnished at the haps you can wait. You're not sitting State's expense for ninety thousand on a bed of glowing coals! No job, marks, as the department concerned man, no job! If I have to go through in the Reich Finance Ministry com- that again, I'll turn to crime. I'll stay plained to me. Goering had gold tiles on top no matter what it costs me. We laid in the bathroom of one of his can't get on top twice running!" many offcial apartments. Hitler or-Small -men- and -- criminals-these dered the complainants to pay to the were the "old guard" of Hitler. They recently appointed Reichstathalter were all trying to consolidate their (Reich Lieutenant-Governors) salaries hitherto unheard-of in the German hierarchy. They paid. And the or- dinary citizen, when he saw the parade of super-luxurious cars outside the public buildings, whispered: "The new bosses are going up fast.'

So-

positions, and they were all able to refer to the Fuehrer. No one, up to those in the highest posts, quite trusted the peace. No one believed much in the millenium of the National cialist era. An eminent bank president admitted to me openly that having risked his skin once in a world war, he had no intention of doing so again, or, indeed, of risking anything. would do as all the others did. would not expose himself. He had no desire to make personal sacrifices.

He He

Hitler expressed his views on this state of things with his usual candour, He was being reproached, he said an- grily in his guttural voice, for having instituted unwarrantable prosecutions for corruption against the former rulers and their accomplices, while his Never before has there been such own men were filling their pockets. corruption, such lack of stamina in

"I have answered the fools who | Germany! venture to use such language to me," he said. "I have asked them to tell me how I could otherwise meet the justifled desires of my party com- rades for some recompense for their

Hitler distrusts everyone who tries to explain political economy to him. He believes that the intention is to dupe him, and he makes no secret of (Continued on Page 11)

By George McManus

Bringing Up Father

SAY-WHERE ARE ALL THESE OLIVES COMIN' FROM- 1 FOUND SOME ON ME DRESSER AN' SOME IN MY TRUNK-

STRANGE HERE ARE SOME MORE

IN MY HAND-BAG-

WOULD YOU MIND WRAPPING UP THESE OLIVES FOR ME?

OH-SO-IT'S YOU THAT HAS THE OLIVES ALL OVER

THE PLACE- WHAT'S TH' IDEA?

SAVING OLIVES IS MY HOBBY- I STARTED TO SAVE THEM SINCE STARTING ON THIS TRP-

THAT'S SILLY- WHY SAVE OLIVES?

WELL-WE HAVE THEM SERVED AT ALL MEALS- IF I DIDN'T SAVE THEM -I'D HAVE

TO EAT THEM-

?

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