Evening star., 1941-11-12
Generals Nay Gust Hitler, Dorothy Thompson
Says, Warning Against Peace With Them

was the creation Of a camarilla
of generals who needed q mass
demagogue to lead the people
away from pacif1sm and inter-
nationalism.
Hitler Began as Spy.
Hitler started his political Ca
reer as a Reichswehr agent and
spy. The camarilla financed his
first newspaper out of secret
funds. The camarilla planned
this ghastly war. 1t was they
who insisted on the occupation
of Prague-not Hitler. 1t is they
who have brilliantly conquered
continental Europe-not Hitler.
And they, not Hitler. intend to
reap the benefits for their class
and their view of life.
They are gentlemen. these gen.
erals. outwardly civilized; they
never hung wallpaper or con-
spired with cafe philosophers in
beer halls. But they are the
heirs of the Prussian military
tradition that is absolutely in-
compatible with the peace of Eu-
rope. They are not one whit less
ruthless than the Gestapo. They
do not talk the nonsense of
Hitler's official philosopher, Herr
Rosenberg-the 30 points for the
abolition of all religions. first
mentioned by President Roose-
velt and published in Life, are
unQuestionably authentic and
not even news, for the main
points are all in Rosenberg's
Myth of the Twentieth Gen.
tury," out for years. But that's
a Nazi idea-not the idea Of the
generals.
Don't Object to Mass Murder"
But the generals mean German
hegemony over Eurasia and
North Africa. They mean no.
body else on the sidewalks. They
don't, like the Gestapo, torture
prisoners to eXtort secrets. But
they do not object to mass mur-
der in clean, efficient way.
Gems. Stuelpnagel, Falken-
hausen and Rundstedt, in the
occupied countries, despise Nazi
steel whips and obscenities. But
they do not deSpise the machine
gun or the hangman's rope. the
civilians against the wall and the
Serbs hung to their own apple
trees.
Lest any one think that in my
last articles have suggested this
camarilla as a substitute for Hit
Ter let him Immediately be disil-
lusioned. These men are no less
criminal than Hitler; they are
more criminal. They are not half
crazed psychopaths like His Teu-
tonic Madness. They are as cold
as ice. and know how to use half
crazed psychopaths for their own
interests. And they also know
how to arrange for half-crazed
psychopaths to die natural
deaths-or unnatural ones.
Churchill knows it. He fore
sees the moment when they will
emerge in aristocratic purity with
an offer Of peace, after Hitler
has been made-oh, master irony
Into the scapegoat. The Hoo
vers and Lindberghs and others
of this world will be deceived.
They are so easily deceived.
Maybe the German people, whose
chief crime is an inconceivable
docility, will also be deceived-but
I don't believe it. But nobody
else in Europe will be deceived.
Not the last peasant.
This clique-the generals from
the east, with the pale eyes
know nothing of Europe, but only
of Germany, and care nothing for
Germany, but only for their own
caste. Since the foundation OF
modern Germany they have been
q state within the state, the in
tractable, the true rulers. No
peace can come through them, for
they are warriors, rapacious war;
riors, and warriors for their own
caste. A peace made with them
by the democracies-would be
the final ironic twist to the tragic
dramatic final and complete
counter-revolution against free
dom and equality.
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