Evening star., 1941-09-06
Nozis' Ranks Reported Purged
Before Invasion of Russia
1000 Declared Shot for Corruption,
Defeutism or Lack of Discipline


their record in the past. certainly
until they are beaten in the field.
Germans Must Be Stampeded.
The Germans must be thought OF
as standing huddled together. Some
body must stampede them before
they run. They were never starn-
peded in the last war until the Kali
ser fed. He fled only when his gen.
erals told him that they faced su-
perior military forces In the field
and I believe Hitler will never start
the stampede of the Nazis until the
generals tell him again that they are
being beaten.
They are not being beaten while
America is acknowledgement and
every German knows that. They
are winning now and no one throws
in the sponge until he Is beaten.
The Germans will attempt a peace
offensive once they stabilize the
Russian front and push through to
Baku oil. Every one knows that.
But the peace offensive will have
nothing to do with peace. 1t will
be designed to lull America into a
false sense of security until Ger
many can organize revolution in
America.
Hitler has ordered his fifth COL
umnist agents in America, accord
ing to German agents in Spain and
Portugal, to start monster cam
paign to persuade America to force
Britain to make peace. Hitler is
only afraid of America if the coun-
try goes to war. Totalitarian coun-
tries are organized on permanent
war footing, their industries and
their man power, continually mo-
bilized. 1t is only when democracy
has gone to war that it can ap-
proach the discipline and military
effectiveness of a totalitarian state
This correspondent showed in the
period before and after Munich that
Germany was arming at twice the
rate of Britain and France COM
btned. My analyses showed that
time was on Hitler's side because
the democracies, under peacetime
conditions, were only doing a half
hearted job Of trying to catch up.
Dunkerque Spurred Britain.
In actual fact, Britain and
France did a halfhearted job in
dustrially through the first year of
the war. Britain began to arm in
earnest and with an efficiency un-
matched as yet by the Nazis only
after Dunkerque. As for America,
it is sufficient to study the news
papers and magazines to realize that
the United States Is in the i'm
mediate post-Munich atmosphere as
yet.
To understand Hitler's confidence
as long as America does not declare
war it is we'll to analyze Hitler's re-
armament against what he has
gained from the conquest of Eu-
rope. Under the pen name OF
Thomas Reveille, one of the best
financial analysts in the world has
made q careful study of this in 1.-THE
Spoil of Europe" This expert re-
capitulates the tribute Hitler has
drawn from France and other coun-
tries in the form of Occupation
COSTS" seizure of energy and Jew
ish property, imposition of fines
realization of ancient loans and in
vestments and reimbursements oi
reparations payments.
eff to these proceeds are added,
he writes. "the value of military
and civilian property taken by vir-
tue of armistice agreements and the
value of gold and foreign assets
taken over in exchange for Reichs-
mark balances, 1t probably would not
be incorrect to surmise that Nazl
Germany's aggregate collections add
up to at least 80 billion marks or sc
billion dollars"
Germany Out Of Red.
The full meaning Of this much
loot is not Immediately appreciated
This Is the figure mentioned by Hit
ler in September, 1889, as the sum
of expenditures on German arrla-
ments since he came to power In
1888. In short, Germany has built
the greatest military machine ir
history, conquered virtually the
whole of Europe, sunk half the
worlds shipping and made a bic
for the conquest of Russia's re.
sources and made it pay. Germany
is out of the red as Hitler prepares
to take on America. Hitler has
proved once more what historians
have often pointed out in the past;
Prussia is the only country in the
world which knows how to make
war pay.
The ultimate victory-meanine
whether Americans remain a free
people under a free democracy OF
became a serf Nation under tht
master race"-will be decided ir
the contest between the morals o1
the two peoples. Italians, French
men, Spaniards and Portuguese.
have been telling me in recen'
months that the Nazi agents art
confident. These Nazis say thu
American people will not develol
the spirit of sacrifice and the Gov
ernment will not adopt that sens,
of responsibility on which souns
morale must be based. The Ger
man-filled Hobbies of the Lisbor