Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-05-23
The Mission Of Hitler

Communists advocate revolu-
ton. But what is to follow the
revolution? A dictator says he
wants to protect" the small ma
tons. But what will the small
nations get after the dictatorial
protection? On the subject of
protection" the big Norwegian
semi-weekly, DEBORAH Posten,"
carried an interesting article in
its foreign review column. Trans
lated, the article follows:
There has been prevalent in many
countries bad tendency to mis-
understand the historic mission of
Adolf Hitler. People have believed
that all he wanted to do was to con-
quer; to attack unsuspecting small
nations; to bomb houses and homes
and to kill defenseless men, women
and children; some have even VEN
tured the belief that he was ambitious,
and that he wanted to create a new
world empire, merely because he was
suffering from some unclassified form
or other of exaggerated ego.
All this now is shown to be wrong,
for Hitler himself has said that he
simply wants to protect the small ma
tons, and that they have to take a
licking from him, if they don't want to
be protected. These unsophisticated
small states seem to have lacked the
correct conception of Hitler's job as
protector, and some of them have
even, weapons in hand, protested
against this magnanimous protection.
That's how wise they were! Can
anyone really understand why small
nation dares imagine that it can get
along without Hitler's protection?
The very thought is so audacious that
it has caused actual anguish in Ber-
lin.
Now, of course-all the world
knows that Hitler attacked Norway,
Holland and Belgium, and occupied
Denmark and Luxembourg for the one
and only purpose of protecting them.
But his intentions were of still more
exalted kind, for Robert Ley, his
leader of the German labor front, has
written-in Joseph Goebbels' paper,
die Angriff"-a really touching ar
ticle about the God-given mission of
Hitler" said mission consisting in the
wish to make Germany happy and
reasonable"
According to Herr Ley, it consists
in much more, for he says that it is
"Hitler's natural mission" to create
a happy Europe.
AS though this were not enough,
Ley adds that it is "Hitler's irrevoc-
able mission to make the entire world
happy"
And so this is what has been mis-
understood: People have not been
able to reconcile this benign mission
with bombs and tanks and armored
cars and machine guns, or with homes
shattered to smithereens, and mutt
lated human bodies.
But Papa Hitler takes care of it all!
And it so happens that he has his
evidence in good shape. So far, he
has merely started to make the entire
world happy by taking the following
steps:
March 7, 1887, defying agreements
and treaties, he occupied the Rhine
land.
March IL, 1888, he took Austria.
September 80, 1888, he took Sude-
tenland.
March IA, 1899, he took Czecho-
Slovakia.
March %, 1899, he took Memel.
September l, 1889, he invaded Po-
land, subduing it quickly.
September 7, 1889, he took Danzig.
April 9, 1910, he took Denmark.
April 9, 1910, he attacked Nor
way.
May 10, 1910, he took Luxembourg.
Between May 10 and IA, 1910, he
took Holland.
May 10, he began to take Belgium
into his protecting hands.
Funny-isn't it?-that the world
will not understand.