Evening star., 1924-10-06

DAILY News
BERLIN, Germany, August 1.-THE
German Racial Freedom party is the
party of Gen. Erich Ludendorff and
Count Ernst zu Reventlow. 1t is one
with the Nationalist Socialists of
Adolf Hitler, and the German Socials
of kunze. In the last election it
polled 100000 votes and elected IS
deputies to the Reichstag. or nearly
one-twelfth of the total.
Affiliated with the Racial Freedom
party are numerous Organizations of
young men and boys. many of the
former armed with rifles and possess
ing a few hidden machine guns and
field pieces. and ammunition. At
least half of the students of the Uni
versity Of Berlin are openly or at heart
in sympathy with the party's ultra pa
triotic views.
Nor do they hesitate to put these
views into action. The racial leaders
have been active in every putsch. AL
most every striking political murder
in Germany in recent years is COM
monty attributed to them. One of
their chief organs. the Berlin
Deutsche Zeitung, openly approved
the killing of Deputy Matteotti by
Italian fasciti. 1t is even claimed
by some of them that Mussolini was
inspired by Germans Even more are
they inspired by the example of Nj
kolai Lenin, whom they consider the
only great man of our time.
Racial Patriots View of War.
Such a movement, however open to
attack, and however strongly combat
ed by the earnest, serious leaders of
German majority sentiment, has con-
siderable political Importance. So on
several occasions / have asked Ger
- -
of philosophy and political writer, to
discuss it with me.
"Yar, lieber herr, is not merely the
means to an end" he declares. War
is an end in itself War is, has been
and always will be the chief German
occupation. Had you seen US go out
to battle in 1914, you would have un-
derstood the German soul. Compare
US with other countries. How did the
French go to war;
with weeping and heavy hearts,"
said.
In Germany it was different. We
went joyfully. There were music.
flowers, pretty girls. Then for the
first time we realized our deepest as
pirations. felt why we had been
born!"
Did all Germans feel this. or only
a few enthusiasts, like yourself?"
"All true Germans. Naturally,
among the workers there were many
who had come under the materialistic
influen re of Karl Marx and the Jews.
They failed to understand the ideal
| ism of war-how war purifies ALL
In Berlin one is acutely aware of
this publication" 1 answered.
Berlin Not True German.
He flushed ITO understand the
real Germans, you must not Judge by
what you see in the towns, still less
in Berlin. In many places we have
come under the influence of industrial
capitalism-a thing foreign to our ma
ture. In our hearts we have remained
romanticists, poets, warriors, cherish
ing ln ideal of chivalry which com
mercial nations like the United States
are incapable of understanding. To
study this German heart you must
leave the cities for the countrysides.
In Bavaria, Schwabia, the Black For
est, the Rhineland, along the North
Sea coast you find the true German
not in Slavic Prussia. Among Ger
| mans there are only two real types,
the knight and the varlet-ritter und
| knecht. Strictly speaking, we have
| no middle class
| On this account we do not hate
| the French. We despise them and
| laugh at them. In my village in
Westphalia the peasants at first
| feared the French oppressors. Now
| they smile contemptuously. In France
| there is no chivalry."
| took exception to this. But he in
| terrupted me impatiently I'VE know
| them better than you. For 1000 years
| we. have fought them and beaten
| them. Always we have been alone
| against all. Germany has been in
l na
bits. But our knighthood has always
emerged triumphant. The German
| soul was too strong.
On this account we cannot pardon
| the French for their lack of chivalry.
Take the Ruhr occupation. Was thai
knightly? No German would kick a
foe when he was down. A fallen
| knight. dying but unbeaten--that is
Germany. His woman on her knees
asks the conqueror for mercy. She is
| spat upon. Pfui!"
1t Was Different In Belgium.
| Was the invasion of Belgium chiv-
alrous?" 1 queried.
| "Nein. herr; but that was war. Now
there is no longer war When one
knight falls, the duel is over"
| Suppose one knight dislikes duel
! ling, is sick of fighting, does he not
do well to try to tie up and imprison
a beaten adversary whom he suspect.
OF wanting to begin all over again? ~
That is weakness. A true knight
| lights for the sake of fighting. He
lives-perhaps dies-for a splendid
ideal. Have you no soul in America q?
Do you enjoy nothing except COM
merce and money and material COM
port? 1t is strange, you have so
much German blood in you. The Eng
lish too. are soulless. When Germans
leave their home and amalgamate
with inferior races; they somehow
lose their virtue. But in America
you have no real culture-only a
little Of ours your ancestors carried
with them.''
Silence a moment. then: What do
| you think of the reichswehr?" he
asked. wistfully.
Fine appearing soldiers" 1 an
swered.
Did you see the German army" his
face Frightened.
| Yes, at Tyres. From the allies
side"
| Next War to BE Racial.
! "Ypres-war das NIGHT schoen? The
army, I mean. Tyres, too, was once
German. So was Cambray And
| Burgundy. Lorraine, too. Charles v
was a German. descended from Maxi
milan, the last of the knights. Hol-
| land-that's Germany Scandinavia,
Switzerland. all German. You under
stand, by German 1 mean pure Teu-
tonic, Nordic. The next war will be a
racial war"
DO you expect it soon?" asked.
IT have nearly finished book on
| the subject 1t is founded on history
and economies. The thesis is this
Each nation desires to become a
| closed economic system. But Euro
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