The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-02

Consider the method which Hitler used to cut down the
number of Of his enemies on the continent In NoVem
Der. 1898 when 10000 Jewish were placed III con-
centration camps the Nazs were willing of course, &c
ransom the wealthy
But the bulk of the Jews taken in this raid poor
No matter what pressure applied funds were forth
coming. Under these circumstances 1t would never 90
to turn them loose in Germany It would spoil the future
market for Jews to let them 90 unransomed Inc Nazs
apparently hestated at mass executions but found way
out of this dilemma.
The Jews were lightly dressed usually only in
whatever they when captured, often only their
pajamas. They were given ground or beds of straw
IN partially open shelters, without adequate bed
covering. The natural result of this pneumonia.
which swept away many men that the government
had to enlarge the crematories which burned the
In 941 the Naz solution of the Polish and Jewish popu
laton problems along the eastern frontier Is much the
The great part of Poland is to be German and is
being provided with a new of German landlords.
They need of course Polish laborers to operate their
estates but this number is far smaller than the existing
population of the country; so the surplus Poles and Jews
have been hurried out of the greater of the country
and concentrated IN limited area behind nar6ed WIRE
shelter or employment for these people They have been
dying like flies.
This of course, is what the Nazs wanted. Hitler
uses the sharp weapon of starvation TO prune away
undesirable racial elements in his New Europe, just
as surgeon his knife TO cut away diseased flesh
Over temporary period of Hitler will need the
labor of slaves in Europe Since 1889 great numbers
of conquered Poles as well as Czechs Frenchen Begans
homes sometimes voluntarily by the promise of food
times under eompuson and put to work in the German
No doubt certain number of British be
used, although their usefulness may be limited
than that of less obstinate peoples. fully believe
that If Hitler wins, the arrest and Incarceration of
leading persons in Britain and the of considerable
numbers of British slaves the continent will
leave in the British Isles only small population made
mostly of agricultural lab0rers and a small number
of industrial workingmen for example. in shipyards
population wholly unable to maintain the continuity
of British policy and British culture.
treaty of peace with Britain unlikely. For
thing, the British will fight if the British Isles
taken 1t is certain that Canada would be protected by
the United States that resistance Hitler would still
continue there. Undoubtedly many persons would get
away to carry the fight from a base
However it would matter much Hitler if certain
number of the British did escape and carried the
from another base abroad They could hardly operate eff
fectvey around the British Isles and draw their fuel and
supplies from the Atlantic. food blockade of
the British Isles could then be effected whether of
the British batteships escaped to Canada not
When think of the progress of the war;
must not consider defeat of Britain as just
episode in a series of disasters-t would represent
the end of chapter in human history If Britain
should fall, there would be little that America could
do against Hitler in his home territory Our last
possible base of operations against The ytas of the
Reich would have vanished
The fall of Britain also the end of the Atlantic
blockade Within a few weeks German ships could put
in every direction to bring in vital materials which
desperately missed to carry Nazi emissares far
and wide.
This would signaize that the barriers down to
totatarianism 1t would spread like raging fire over
most of the remaining areas of the world.
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