The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-09
Nasi Poison among Members of Congress
Continued from Page u

Special Hitler Number Of the
American illustrated News got with
it a letter signed by editor Berg
mann. This letter not only admits
the official nature Of the magazine
but asks the Congressman who re-
ceived It to cooperate in its propa-
ganda. The letter reads:
Congressman So-and-se,
Address.
Dear Sir.
One year Of the Hitler Govern
ment has in1pelled lis to request
the heads Of the Government bo
give us a statement as to their
ideas on the reconstructive work
which has been done in the new
Germany.
We are enclosing q copy Of the
special Hitler Number Of The
American illustrated News re-
sulting therefron and trust that
you will be 50 good as to give it
your attention.
Should you wish to make any
comments upon any Of the articles
we should be grateful if YOU send
us your views on the matter. WE
SHOULD BE GLAD TO PRINT
THESE WITH YOUR PICTURE.
WHICH WE HOPE YOU WILL
SEND US.
Yours very truly,
Thu AVRaorfnoy,
Karl Bergman.
Since the magazine was distrib-
uted only to a selected list of Con
greSsmen and was not sent to any
Of the correspondents or newspaper
agencies in Washington. it is clear
what sort Of views" the Ministry
Of Propaganda was trying to get
for its English language sheet.
Straight from HitIer's Aides
The official nature Of the propa-
ganda contained in the magazine is
emphasized again in the opening
editorial entitled Americans, the
New Germany Speaks to You!
TN this magazine" the editorial,
signed by Bergman, explains, IAN
attempt has been made to present
to you picture of what the new
Germany has done and is doing.
This Is not a collection of reports
by few journalists but comes
straight from the source. Every
article is written by a man high
in the confidence Of the Chancellor
and every writer knows exactly
what he is writing about" (")
The government officials and Nazi
leaders who fill the magazine with
their hysterical diatribes against
MarNsts and Jews and their cpl
leptic licking of the Leaders"
person, beginning with his boots.
include DR.. Joseph Goebbels, Min
lister of Propaganda; Hermann
Goering, Minister President of
Prussia and German Minister of
Aviation; DR.. K. Schmidt, Minister
OF Economic Affairs; Alfred Rosen-
berg, notorious Foreign Minister"
OF the National-Socialist Party: w.
Dare, Reich Minister Of Food: DR.
H. Frank. Reich Commissioner of
Justice; the famous" Captain Ernst
Roehm, boss Of the storm troops:
DR.. w. Prick. Minister of the In
terror; DR.. Hialmar Schacht, Presi-
dent Of the Reichsbank. and Franz
Seldte, Reich Minister of Labor.
The magazine made it clear that
German Fascism and American
democracy" have common inter
ests. An entire page-and these
pages are each II by % inches-is
devoted to photographs captioned
The New Germany as the Standard
Bearer in the Fight Against the
International Danger of BoIshe-
vism. The photographs show Com
munist demonstrations in San
Francisco. Los Angeles. New York.
Belfast, London, Stockholm; a
group of Communist prisoners in a
Chicago Jail; scenes presumably
from the "Marxist" uprisings after
the imperialist war: an utterly in
COMPREHENSIVE picture Labelled
Madrid, and q group of women and
children standing around bonfire
in the snow, labelled Moscow. Ar
rows connect these photographs
with the respective cities indicated
by circles on a world map
On the page opposite this photo
montage there is an article by
Under Secretary of State Gottfried
FEEDER, Nazi ideologist, entitled The
Fight Against Marxism and Boil
shevism and the Importance of this
Fight for World Business. The
article is characterized by its open
ing sentence; "La propriete c'est
Ia vol'-'property is theft is the
basic principle Of all Marxist eco
nornic thought"
(') All emphasis is mine.-J. F.