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Bringing Up Father

STRANGE-HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE IN DIFFERENT NOW HERE IN THE CHICAGO THE MEN OFFERENT FROM

IN KANSAS CITY-

NOW-FOR INSTANCE-

MEN IN THE WEST-

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1940

I WORKED FOR GOEBBELS

On Oct. 2, 1932, I became a fully- fledged member of the German Na- tional Socialist Party.

Before long, as was customary for new members, I was introduced to Dr. Goebbels. In a short interview he asked me about my professional training, my knowledge of languages, and my personal circumstances.

He seemed already pretty well-in- formed about me--thanks probably to my branch leader,

In April, 1933, I was appointed to the Propaganda Ministry and took over the archives of Italy, Austria, Hungary, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, the League of | Nations and the Vatican.

Later Hitler's personal archives, in which everything by him and about him is kapt-speeches, photographs, reactions to his personality and so on -were turned over to me.

It took me quite a while to discover that the 700 officials in the Ministry collected a vast amount of knowledge

·By ELIZABETH KNAUST

peo-

only to hide it from the German ple or to give it to them falsified form and content.

After two years in the Ministry looked frantically for an escape.

in

more

BRITISH

SKIPPERS HOME

London, To-day.

British mercantile marine of. ficers who were captured by the Admiral Graf 8pse and released when she was driven into Mon. tevideo, have arrived at Tilbury.

They will proceed to the Ad- miralty to report about their ex- periences aboard the Graf Spee. -Reuter.

anti-Semitism; second, a subtle, anti- church agitation; third, a violent peace policy.

Anti-Semitism is good business for many people.

If you infect the neighbourhood with anti-Semitism, then people will buy in your shop and not in the shop of your Jewish competitor.

Propaganda against the church must be carried on even more subtly than that against the Jews.

The church is hated by the Nazis because the church preaches tolerance and that is just the opposite of Hitler's teachings.

The churches are further hated be- cause of their organisations which the 1 Nazis envy; and, third, the church properties are a rich booty which they covet.

The falsifications became streamlined and more unscrupulous In the Ministry we had routine ex- with every month that went by. I pressions for the different types of could have felt comfortable only if I anti-church propaganda at

our dis- had forgotten everything that had posal. The order would be given to been taught me by my parents-play up "immorality" or "mismanage- truthfulness, honesty, idealism.

ment" or "interference with the State.” Then I had to dig out an example for the editors at, the "Press con- ference" where they get their orders, some old story of a priest who did not live up to his vows, and soon similar stories were smeared over all the front pages in the Third Reich.

Sometimes in spite of my awareness of the double-mouthed policy of the Third Reich I fell victim to our own propaganda until some development made the truth clear to me again.

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I remember, for example, the time when the then Foreign Minister, von Neurath, prepared and concluded the so-called "friendship” · treaty with Austria.

In diplomatically-phrased sentences the treaty stated that the activity of the Austrian Nazis illegal and directed from Berlin, would stop.

I remember the solemn declarations of Hitler himself, that he would res- pect the independence of Austria. Not less than three such declarations he made.

In my Austrian files I soon had proof that the opposite of what we said was being done.

The illegal Nazi Press of Austria did not go out of business as had been agreed. The stream of illegal Austrian Nazl newspapers and leaflets flowed uninterruptedly into my files and their language became more violent.

It was diagusting to watch the satis. faction on the faces of Goebbels and his Immediate subordinates when brought them Austrian materials.

Poor Schuschnigg, I thought, and poor Germany that was ruled by pro- fessional tricksters.

The propaganda of the Ministry in foreign countries in general is organis- ed on three principles. · First, violent

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Or I had to collect from all my files material which showed that church property had been mismanaged-not necessarily fraudulently, perhaps only in Ignorance.

The conclusion, then, was easily reached that it was necessary to take over these properties, not only in the interests of the nation but also in the interests of the church itself to which great service would thereby be done. The third stock-in-trade of the pro- the paganda in foreign countries is slogan: No War!

The basis of the Department's work is one of the Leader's pet theories— namely, that Imperial Germany lost the World War because the allegedly very clever and unscrupulous propa- ganda of the Allies broke its spirit.

boast of the Department is that every This must not happen again. The

action of Germany will be assured of success before it is started-by a pro- paganda which wears down the nerves of the enemy.

An interruption in the monotony of the job was the thirty-ninth birthday of our boss, Goebbels. The day was celebrated in great fashion.

On the great day delegations with

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By George McManus

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