Evening star., 1940-04-26
Nazi Party Financier
In December Urged
Hitler 10 Turn Back (
Thyssen FuIfiIIs Threat
To Disclose Story Of
Flight to World
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0y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26.-"Turn
back as long as it is still possible, !"
Hitler was urged last December by
Fritz Thyssen, German steel and
coal king, who financed the Nazi
party and made possible Hitler's rise
to power.
Your policy will terminate in a
dnis Germania," he said.
Thyssen's communication to the
man he joined forces with willingly
when the Nazi party was young, is
one of number of hitherto unpub-
lished letters from Thyssen to Hitler
which appear in the current issue
Of Life magazine.
The letters bare a burning Ger
man patriotism and a bitterness
against the course of the Nazi
regime.
Threat Is Fulfilled.
In making public the letters
Thyssen fulfilled a threat he made
last December to Hitler that he
would call upon the conscience of
the world" by disclosing the full
story of his flight from Germany,
events which led up to the confisca-
ton Of his vast properties, the de-
naturalization of himself and his
wife by Nazi decree and the war
rant for his arrest which has made
him today fugitive in France.
The letters tell of Thyssen's in
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the course of dictatorship.
Think of the oath you swore at
Potsdam Ito uphold the German
constitution), Thyssen wrote Hitler.
"Give back to the Reich a free par
lament, give back to the German
nation freedom of conscience, free
dom Of thought and freedom of
speech.
Create anew the foundations
which are necessary to restore law
and justice, which will make it pos
sible to trust German treaty again.
Stop the useless bloodshed and
Germany will obtain peace with
honor and will preserve her unity.
Calls Upon World Conscience.
SHOULD the German nation be
prevented from hearing my words
which are the words of a free and
upright German, then I shall call
upon the conscience of the world,
and shall let the world pass judge
ment. I am waiting. He'll.
Germany"
Thyssen wrote the German leader
that he had protested against the
persecution of Christianity, against
the brutalization Of its priests,
against the desecration of its
churches" and that when on No
vember 9, 1888, the Jews were robbed
and tortured In the most cowardly
and brutal manner and their syna-
gogues destroyed all over Germany,
I protested once more"
The German agreement with
Soviet Russia brought renewed pro-
tests from Thyssen, who wrote Hitler
at the time that your present policy
amounts to suicide It's beneficiary
will be your arch-enemy of yester-
day (Stalin) who is your friend of
today" .--
Fears Loss as World Power.
Thyssen said earlier this month
that war will make Germany de-
pendent on Russia in the matter of
raw materials and thereby she will
lose her position as a world power"
Your new policy, Mr.. Hitler"
Thyssen wrote, lis driving Germany
into an abyss and the German ma
ton into perdition."
Thyssen asserted that Germany's
declaration of war was voted at
Reichstag meeting at which ZAP
proximately 100 members were alb
sent-their seats taken by party
officials" and that Thyssen demand
ed of Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm
Goering that the German public be
informed that "as a member of the
Reichstag I have voted against the
war"
Thyssen declared that IT am and
always shall be German with all
my heart, with all my thoughts and
endeavors, I profess proudly and
loudly my German nationality and
shall continue to do so with my last
breath"
Listen to me-" Thyssen wrote
Hitler last December, land you will
hear the voice of tormented Ger
man nation that is crying out to
you: Turn back, let freedom, right
and hllmaneness rise again in the