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Eward Banse
What does Nazi Germany think of France? Why did Hitler invade Belgium and Holland?
Below, Professor Eward Banie 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 Banas'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.
·
We Germans readily dinit that the present boundary Hne is a422 uncommonly advantageous one for France, but no one must take it amiss if we modestly indicate our aspiratitis for the future.
From our point of view the best frontier would run from the Jura along the ridge to the west of the upper Moselle and the upper Mese and then, benching westwards and keeping south of the chalk and tertiary regions, to the valley of the Somme and g to the sea-or at the very least along the chalk ridge of Artois.
This frontfer 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 daughters of France to their under-populated motherland.
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On the other hand, it possesses great advantages. It would destroy the fortress-like character of the Paris busin, deprive the French of the strategically most Important scarps, and ensure that the opening engagements in the war after next shall take place in a region which has fewer natural defences and from which Paris ca be reached more quickly.
Besides that, the Channel ports of Boulogne and Calals, which are essential for holding the pistol to Englund's head as well as most of the goal
and fron (Lille. Brley), will be in our hands. Incidental- a considerable portion of the ly, Country involved was formerly German speaking bad the rest of It is full of old Germua (Frankish) place names,
The Maginot
Line
en-
THE whole northern and eastern frontier of France has been ormously strengthened shcg the War: In particular a new defen- sive scheme, started in 1929, is to make it impregnable by 1931. The main feature of the scheme is the establishment of
cut of permanent forti-
flex areas, each occupied by two divisions. Such areas Bre:--
1in the region of the western
Alps; from Nice to the upper valleys of the Durance and the Arc, which commands the (t))- proaches from the Italian river Dora Riparla; and the head of the of the Isere, which secures -valley.
those from the Dora Baltea;
2-obviously, the opening ae tween the Jurn and the Vosges at Belfort.
3-two in Lorraine; one to the North
west of Hngenau and Worth: the other in front of Melz, both
connected by an area all prepared the Saur basin to for flooding in the the south of Saargemund.
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 cust of Metz which are also excheloned behind two fortified areas; a
couple west of Metz and south of Longwy; and a completely detached one in the region of the upper Schelde, which has the plain of French Flanders directly on its left; this plain can be flooded by arrange- ment
from somewhere west of Doual to the sea near Calala. There is yet a third means of de- fence which the French gre al- ready getting ready in peace timé -road-barricades.
The biggest aro/situnted:—in the Jura: behind the ridge of the Vosges; in front of the middle Meuse from Verdun to somewhere north of Mezieres.
I must not be forgotten that a well-planned group of similar do.... fences in the cast of Belgium forms a useful extension of the French Ilna towards the north. When one also considers that the railway. system of north eastern France and Belgium has been developed to such a pitch that it can rush on
my of millions into defenseless. German territory along. Wirteen strategic main line rallways, work Alb_{1} Lonjunction with motor one is und to admit that the French military. authorities have made a splendid, and admirable use of; their:orpor-.
army
roads, in a few
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME: THĘ COLDSTREAM GUARDS' SPLENDID CHARGE.
SECRETS
of the
NAZI WAR
MACHINE
tunities to establish their country's much discussed "security"
of
Paris nits ilke a spider in the mkddle of an adipirably planned and spun web of steel. In the world war it gave brillant proof.
its efficiency, especially in handling truffle behind the main curve of the front and between the British and French sections of the line.
Paris Is
Key To France
Without Paris, with all its troops and railway
stations, on its left Bunk, the French army could hardly have won the race to the
ein September 1914,
wars.
One-of-the-most-important-tasks for the establishment of peace on earth is the weakening. nay the extermination, as far as that is possible, of the German element in France.
Ruthlessly
conducted which will reduce the numbers of this French warrior caste; trans- portation of detachments of thes to an eastern Germany of the future, where they would, soon become Germanised; cross-breed- with
ing of those that remmela southerners and
nemves, which matter the French mili- lory authorities have themselves shown the *uy? progressive means to the decline and fall of France.
Hence we approach the problem of our future relations will France not merely from a political and military but also from an ethnologi- cal point of view.
raplat
All the wrongs that the old France did to the western Germans in her wars of extermination and
must be paid back in kind. The bloody de-northemising of France must be one of the main Items of Germany's defence pro. gramme, for only in this way can eternally restless blood- thirsty neighbotars be shorn of some of their spiritual and physical powera.
our
A frontier auch wn the one al- ready described, within which the French Inngunge might be ex-. trualed in half a century, would. of course, be a great help in this .task.
French Strength
Was Surprise
In the War the French soldier--
a
I refer primarily to the northern Frenchnun—proved himself- skilful fighter with plenty of endurance, even if not quite the Englishman's stubbornneis in de- fence '
He knew how to conduct him- self in the open, and quickly seized ony little advaninge that came his way.
And the rapidity with which he pulled himself together after the
defents of the
-numerous
first
month of the War and resolutely turned round in Tull,retreat to face un at the decisive battle of the Marne on September 6, 1914, came as a surprise to us,
The Artillery on the whole in pressed us less than the infantry. In general, It was not so much the Individual solatest of "Mo""apstelt“. pervading the whole army that maintained the honour of France in the world, wax, na
That spirit was entirely orthern, in character, and -emanated from that dominant upper class of generals and deputies-embodied In men like Joltre, Nivelle, Petālu, Foch and, above all, Clemenceau-- who, with a ruthless and admir- able energy, never took their eyes uff their twofold object, which Was maintain France's greatness and their own preponderance, what it might
to
Cost
Nothing could divert these men from their aim; they were pre- to strike absolutely any- purett thing, if only that was achieved.
class of republican
This pels ane's admiration,
France
it has no equal in the world for sheer energy; all the more renson then, why it must be
be destroyed.
Never in the past, not even under Napoleon, have the destinies of France been guiled by such resolute, such brutally ruthless bands as they are to-day.
"Italy Left
Us In Lurch"
.France would have had her wor
OUT
railway -system behind them, nor the Germans succeeded in out- itunking the enemy; both length- ened their lines in # series of frontul encounters as far na Flan- ders, where
advance falled, owing 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 es- tablished.
All in all, the Franco-Anglo- Belgian army came off better in the race to the sea than the Ger- man
After the battle of the Murne on September 12-13, the essential thing was, for the Germans, to extend their line along the valley of the Somme as far as the Chun- nel; for the enemy, bend the Ger- man line as fur back from the sen as possible at Noyon.
In this the enemy were so far sticcessful that they saved the
secured Channel ports,
11 safe manoeuvring ground for the com ink British army between Dunkirk and Amiens, at the same time re- taining a very numerous popul- tion, the richest in Germanic blocs, for France, and giving the German line of trenches the most disal- vantageous shape imaginable by the salient at Noyon.
the
All that the Germans could set against that was, the occupation of coal mining and industrial arep of northern France; the rich mincs of Briey; and
the H
mere fact of pussessing a scrap of French fer- ritory, a triumph which was not suficient, as the course of the War proved, either to intimidute the enemy or attract the neutrals.
Passing over France's sline in the confiscation of the German colonies (the Cameroons and Togo- land). niso her disgraceful and
behaviour bloodthirsty
our towards German civilians in her coloniex, and having already discussed ele- where her military activities in the Dardanelles, Macedonia, and northern Italy, we will proceed to a few
fund final observations on the
nature of Franco- entai, nau German-relations,
Since her political consolida- Hlon in the middle of the 18th century, France has been the aur people and arch-enemy of
our existence as a nation. All this time she has been the con- tinual aggressor, her goal being
Thine frontier.
the
For the fact that since then there has existed no state which included all Germans hEve
wo
on two fronts also, had not, Italy imarily to thank France and her
left us in the lurch.
num-
deeply ingrained passion
•
-
alty for "security" is sloningly disguised aggression plus, per-
haps, the fear that springs from a bud conscience, seeing how long France has been allowed to work her wicked will on our border lands with almost complete Imm punity.
As short a while OHO IN 1019 the French military authorities, prompted by the ambitions I have described. demanded the annexa- tion of the whole left bank of the Rhine, which was only prevented with great difficulty by the English and Americans.
once would really like What France
to see is a small Germany wedged * in between the Rhime 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 separatisin on the Rising and lents every sort of aid, financial and otherwise, to the German
Marxists of whatever shade of opinion: she planted
Poland and Cecche-Slovakia
on
DU casters frontler and armed then, and it was she who pre- vented the union between us and Austrin, for the intimidation of whom she also supported the south- ern Slavs. Wherever we turn in Europe France stands in the way. ready to humillute and damage us. But these dragon's teeth which France has sown will one day surely produce their terrible erap
Belgium In
ON
German Eyes
Belgium is one of those miser- able states who have been created the outer hem of German national territory, in defiance of all the facts of nationality, under
and French,
N this
case perhaps alse English, influence, with the the numbers of ubject or the
racc
ace less formidable then
up politically and thus weakening them as a whole... The territory of Belgium was de- tached from Holland In 1830 by emissaries of the July revolution: declared an inde- in 1839 it WIS pendent
entily by the powers and given "perpetual" neutrality. which having perfonned its anti- German
function was abolished Versailles in 1919, Belgium In the meantime been openly incorporated as an import- of member of the league Germany's enemies.
by making
ut
having
ant
for
This removed hustile pressure from the French Alps, and enabled supremacy, at least on the Con-
tinent. her to use the troops assigned to their
defence on the decisive All the thoughts and all the northern front, where their
actions of the French nation are bers, in conjunction with the sud- subordinated to that one great end.
of the
German and its whole intellectual achieve- dun weakening line by the withdrawal
ment is but a means to the attain- of two
ment of the Rhine and the dis- army corps, tipped the scale at the
the of
German battle of the Marne. France was
memberment whole to put her
people Jus akic
the north-eastern Both nations are of equal-in- strength inte front, addition to
in
which the tellectual rank, both are highly British expeditionary force took gifted with creative genius; but in over the left flank.
all matters of politics the Freech which the Juck
French
ure superior to the Germans, owing higher command had at the Murne to their national solidarity, their
vas more
than it deserved; for iis
corporule sense, more pronounced plan of campaign was a notably their greater devotion to the n- poorer one than the German, and tional ambitions, and their superior its execution left so much to be willingness to go along will the
ruling class in this direction. desired that It degenerated into a headlong retreat.
Alsace And Lorraine
The
The execution of the German plan was not arrt rate either, but it only came to grief through one of the maddest, pureis per- sonal mistakes in the whole of millary history.
This
mistake, and this alone, rescued France from destruction and presented the French army with its "victory" of the Marne, a victory in which it had no filtle belief itself that it only followed It up tardily and did not begin to feel that it had won a victory 1 September 12.
on
Ба
Belgian
"Atrocities"
The region between Liege and Mons, right on the Paris-Berlin tallway line, is the region whose mining and manufacturing popu- Intion, Inciled by Cathollo priests -and-Latin-nationalists-Inilloted so much damage by their guerilla methods on our troops marching through: the atrocities of the sharp-shooters of Dinant and Liege are notorious' enough. »
Obviously a population of this sort, with a Francophile ruling class and indifferent masses, looked on the outbreak of war, between France
and Germany
chiefly through French eyes; and the mo- ment their neutrality wat violated by Germany, they took the French side, some with passionate ardour, others through sheer stupidly. As we have seen above, Belgium had
no Independent strategic
it was simply a fac significance, tor in both the German and the French plans of campalga: the Germans looked upon it as the way through for their right wing. the French regarded it, or at least its southern portion, as the place where the German right wing was to be annihilated.
Herice France is a much more dangerous, because more resolute und "aggressive, enemy to Germany than Germany is to France. And the extraordinary things is that the whole world sees nothing· aniss Whol hore Hardly single would worry its head if France the wholu 10-morrow declared.
eastern frontier Rhine to be her
when ton do (did a single nation Even the most essential thing the Black pestilence was raging Apart froin that, Belgium played namely, to outflank the exposed
but there the Rhine?),
on their to gel right wing of the Germans, who plenty of
moment Germany had
retired on
Verdun-
hind legs the
to Letch her German Rheims-Noyon line anew-was not wants
brethren In Alsace, and Lorraine done; all the French accomplished was to push buck the German line, back into the Relchi
With such a restless, 'ambitkus, northwards fron Noyon,
and brutal nation as the To be sure, even this turned out resolute
the well for them for gave
French, obviously there can be no German line, which became per- question of peaceful, neighbourly manently estabilshed here, an ex- relations so much should be clear tremely unhealthy allent and kept from history of the Inst four hun-
dred years. It from the Channel ports, which were of capital importance for the landing of English troops,
Race To
The Coast
the
In the race to the coast, neither the, French, in spite of the belter.
It is a question of eat or be caten. But for, the peace of the world it is undoubtedly far, bel- ter that the final victory should [rest, with a peace loving nation like the Germana, nok will A restless and perpešnijlý covetous.
—All-French-talk about the iceaz.
anzant part in the po of the
as the Inhartich government knew of the In- tended Corman violation of Bel- glan neutrality. In case of a war at least as far back as
as 1011,
and was because it welcomed the only thing that would reconelle English public opinion to a war with Germany and rouse the feel- ings ni _the_world.
To the passage of the Germans (who inveldenially offered to re- store Belgian neutrally after the war). Belgium was able to the fortresses of Liera
opmost
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The assault delivered
strong exceedingly
well-defended pectedly from the directions Chapelle (Aachen), Eupen and Malmedy was not
only falling ten fui. the last fort entirely success- advance of days later; still, the our right Bank had really only Just begun, und Belgium, in so far as we needed it to get to France, now lay open before us,
Overrunning
Of Belgium
The overrunning of Belgium by
(the First, our troops
Secopii, Third and Fourth armies) had the following results: (1) the advance of the Third. Fourth and Fifth French armies across the southern frontier of Belgium; and (2) the withdrawal of the Belgium army from lege to the fortress-- Of Antwerp, which thus became a
centre of hostile nell
activity In the rear of our right wing as it 2018-
ried
south westwards. Antwerp therefore had to be invested by i small force spectully detailed for the purpose and เคร 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 Belglans pierced, where It formed the exceedingly important Jeft wing of the future permanent front.
So
In the further course of the War the Flanders front. was
ob- stinately defended by Belgian and English
that troops
We never sticceeded in pushing it in.
From Nieuport on the sen via Ypres and Argentieres to Lens and the foot of the chalk hills of Artois the
line ran through the Flanders plain, where the high levet of the ground water made the construction of trenchen ex-
and that ceptionally difficult dug outs practically impossible and in rainy weather produced a great quagmire' where every man, beast and vehicle iank in and mud-choked rifles only too often fulled to function.
Quite apart from bullets, Flan- ders was the soldier's hell.
become To-day Belgium has purely a French dependency; in- deed, from the military point of view Il is amply а part of France. Therewith Liege has become a jumplóg off ground into Germany. Instead of a
a barricade against her, function of Antwerp is no and the longer to threaten our right flank but
perhaps to provide n. take off Into
Holland. The only arrangement that would. satify ... us... l...that..... we. should either have Flemish Bel- glum, which Le obviously the on grounds of na- fight blog tionality: or alternatively. the whole of Belgium, conaldered as the hinterland of north eastern France, the possession of which ls also necessary to our security,
The latter afternative In pre- ferable, because the linguistic
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