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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1940.

Dr. Hermann Rauschning's Famous Book Already Printed In The "China Mail" In Instalments, Now In Complete Form

"HITLER SPEAKS"

DR. RAUSCHNING was one of Hitler's chief leaders for several years but split from him when he rea- lized that Hitler was a power for evil and not for good.

He wrote the most famous exposure of Nazism

"Germany's Revolution of Destruction." For dar- ing to publish that book he was deprived of his Danzig citizenship and all his property there confiscated.

It was he who first (in that book) told that Hitler

would make a German-Soviet alliance.

Hitler

are

that WO

WHAT HITLER LOOKS LIKE Hitler is not physically attrac- tive. Every one knows that to day. His look la staring or dead, brilliance and and lacks the sparkle of genuine animation.

The timbre of his harsh, un- common voice is repellent to the North German. The tone la full, but forced, as though his nose were blockad. This voice, gut- tural and threatening, ̈ has be- familiar to the come

whole world. It embodies the torment. of these years.

I have noticed that Hitler made the strongest impression on such people as were either highly suggestible or somewhat by accustomed ог their education and social back- ground to formalism and hero- worship.

"But the use of this weapon is In "Hitler Speaks," Dr.

limited. Its significance lies in wear conversations Rauschning's

effeminate Ing down the enemy before the war. with

quoted. Our real wars will, in fact, all be These conversations took fought before military operations be-

gin. I can quite imagine place in the years 1932-might control Britain in this way. 34, immediately before and Or America.” for two years after the regime seized power.

Nazi

"You said that we should poison the enemy with bacteria even before that be the war starts. How can done in peace time?" Forster asked.

harmless "Through agents,

com-

The writer usually jotted them down under the immed-mercial travellers. That is the surest iate influence of what he had method-at the moment the only heard. Much is practically effective one." Hitler replied. verbatim.

ON WAR WITHOUT

MERCY

""The results would not be imme- diate. It would take several weeks, if not longer, for an epidemic to ap- we shall introduce pear. Perhaps bacteria at the height of the war, at the moment when the powers of re- "The next war will be quite dif-sistance of the enemy are beginning

to fail." In- ferent from the last world war,

Our conversation, then dealt with fantry attacks and mass formations are obsolete. Interlocked frontal struggles some details of a future gas and bac- lasting_for_years on petrified fronts terial war. We sat in the rather nar- row-verandah-of-Wachenfeld House will not return. I guarantee that.”

in the Obersalzberg. Hitler's magni- Hitler gazed axedly across

ficent Alsatian sheepdog lay at his the little glass verandah of his moun-feet. It was a magnical August morn- tain eyrie to the precipitous wall

ing. opposite.

We spoke of the result of the war, "We shall regain the superiority of and the tragical turn of all German

victories. free operations."

from

Hitler's physical appearance certainly does not heighten the Impression made by his person. ailty.

A receding forehead, with the lank hair falling over it; a short, unimposing stature, with limba somehow ill-fiting and awkward; an expressionless mouth beneath the little brush of a moustache- such are the traits of the outer

Man.

His only charm iles perhaps in his hands, which are strik. Ingly well-shaped and expressive,

"When I wage war, Forster," he declared, "in the midst of peace, troops will suddenly appear, let us say, in Paris. They will wear French uni- forms. They will march through the streets in broad daylight. No one will

them. stop

been Everything has thought out, prepared to the last de- tail.

"They will march to the headquar- ters of the General Staff. They will occupy the Ministries, the Chamber of Deputies. Within a few minutes Czecho- France, Poland, Austria, Slovakia will be robbed of their lead- ing men. An army without a Gen- eral Staff! All political leaders out of the way! The confusion will be beyond belief!

"But I shall long have had rela- tions with the men who will form a new Government-a Government to suit me..

"We shall find such men, we shall find them in every country. We shall not need to bribe them. They will come of their own accord. Ambition and delusion, party squabbles and will drive self-seeking 'arrogance them.

negotiated

before you,

"Peace will be the war has begun. I promise gentlemen, that the impossible is al- The most unlikely ways successful thing is the surest.

"We shall have enough volunteers, men like our S.A., trustworthy and ready for any sacrifice. We shall send them across the border in peace- time. Gradually. No one shall see in them anything but peaceful travel- lers.

"To-day, you don't believe me, gen- tlemen. But I will accomplish it, move ged again for years in a war of posi- tion."

start a by move. "Who says I'm going to

shall "Perhaps we

land at their We shall be capable of war like those fools in 19147" cried Hitler."Are-not-all-our-efforts bent | flying-fields. to preventing this? Most people have transporting, not only men, but arms, no imagination." Here his face twist- by air. No Maginot Line will stop Our strategy, Forster, is to des- ed into an expression of contempt.

"They can imagine the future only | troy the enemy from within, to con- in terms of their own petty experi- quer him through himself." ·

They are blind to the new,

II: ONLY ONE RIVAL the surprising things. Even the gen- "Is it true, Herr Hitler, that Ger-

IN THE AIR many has prepared secret inventions Hitler exclaimed. "We may be deserals are sterile. They are imprison- which will break down

every resis-troyed, but if we are, we shall drag ed in the coils of their technical know- tance, inventions against which even the French Maginot Line will be "de- fenceless?"

The

led

Danzig Gauleiter (district leader) Albert Forster -indicated by a sign to me that he had now Hitler into his favourite subject.

"All armies have secret invertions. I am sceptical as to their value, “Hit- ler returned.

"But the penetrative power of our new S-munitions. Isn't it true that

"We shall not capitulate-no, never,"

conclusion of the last war.

ence.

creative genius stands ledge. The always outside the circle of the ex- perts.

US.

"In the air we shall of course be supreme." Hitler resumed, "The air We shall `offers many possibilities.

surpass all competitors.

a world with us-a world in flames.”

A young leader of the S.A. broke the silence by saying that it was the

enemies "I," he went on, "have the gift of superior armament of our

problems to their sim-

"We have only one serious rival in that had brought about the unhappy reducing all

"It is not plest foundations. War has been erect-this field: the English. The Slavs will arms that decide, but the men behind ed into a secret science and surround- never learn to fight in the air. It is a manly weapon, a Germanic art of always," Hitler rebuked him.ed with momentous solemnity. But war "But surely new inventions and is the most natural, the most every battle. superior weapons do decide the fate day matter.

"War is eternal, war is universal. of nations and social classes? Is not that what you meant, my Fuehrer, There is no beginning and there

War Is-life. Aby struggle when you said the next war no peace. would be quite different from the last is war. War is the origin of all

them

electrical warfare yields entirely new possibilities of attack?" Forster per- one?" sisted. "And the new polson gases and bacterial warfare? Will bacteria be used as a wapon in the next

{- war?"

"A nation denied its rights miný use any weapon, even bacterial wartare,” Hitler's voice rose. “I have no scru ples, and I will use whatever weapon I require.

"The new poison gases are But, there is ho

nlow denth‹.in.

ments a

gassed man or

terla

"In star

iture whole

things.

"What is war but ounning

"No,' strategy' does not change, at least not through technical invention, delusion, attack and tions. That is quite wrong." Hitler's People have killed only manner became lively.

"What is

could not achieve the "Has anything changed since the ways. Merchants,” battle of Cannae? Did the invention at one time, all of gunpowder in the Middle Ages is a broadened change the laws of strategy? I am intellectual sceptical as to the value of technical inventions.

To make "No technical novelty has ever per- does manently revolutionised warfare. Each him technical advance is followed by an-him

better. other which cancels out its effects: •

"Certainly, the technique of warfare advances, and it will create many more

until the maximum of

But all this' ca

Hitler

"I shall build the largest air fleet in the world. We shall have the most

daring pilots. Of course, we shall have a great army as well."

"Will you introduce universal con- scription "again?" he was asked,

"Not only that, but a universal con- scription of labour towwhich-Hinden-