The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-20
What profes

What profess
sionally disgusts FBI Spokesman.
however, is the obvious inability
OF the Gestapo agents, expert de-
tectives as they call themselves, TO
catch the actual perpetrators OF
the killings they're supposed to
prevent but don't succeed In put
ting a stop TO-
The idea is that the FIJI not only
regards the German secret service
as a gang Of unmitigated whole
sale murderers; il also despises EN-
as utterly incompetent shoppers.
It hates the Gestapo as much as
anybody else does.
Nevertheless, FBI operatives rec
ognize that. II staff OF tees" is
assigned to protect Nazi official
dom, it's up to that staff to
PROTECT EN-, or, IL it fails occa-
sionally. to catch and punish the
authors OF what they consider an
anu-Nazi outrage, now and again.
L. s. Justice
For instance, we have here a
few AXIS representatives, who have
TO be kept in suppression. But we
don't attend TO EN- without trials.
Before being so much as pinched,
they have to be detective-ized in
tensively. Nobody's penalized I'M
I'll he's had something pinned on
him conclusively. He has to be
convicted as regularly as a bur-
glar.
But suppose that some Reich
dominated community is suspected
of having a handful Of anti-Nazis
in its makeup, but the Gestapo
can't spot the exact individuals In
such a situation the Gestapos sys-
TEN is to wipe out the whole COM
munity, to make sure that no bets
being overlooked in the process.
The FBI considers this method
unscientific. as well as inhuman.
The FIJI boys are detectives
very classy ones, but. in principle.
Just like any other detective corps,
here or elsewhere.
Now, the average town is afiict-
ed by some criminals who ought TO
be caught-stickup men and vari-
Gus assorted outlaws. The local
tees" are anxious to get EN-. They
don't advocate arresting EVERY
BODY, though, with no exceptions.
The Gestapo does-and not alone
ARRESTING everybody. but kill
ing everybody who's arrested, and
without a trial, either True, there
is a certain consistency in killing
EN- all without trial, for trials
might result in 10 or IS per cent
of acquittals.
The FBI doesn't, indeed, make
this latter allowance in the Ges-
tapo's favor.
Its judgment is that, in addition
TO being plain homicidal, its crew
are hamfats as detectives.
Its theory is that. If the Gestapo
wants to stop the assassination Of
Nazis provided the humping of
Of chap like Hangnian Heydrich
can properly be referred TO as as
sassination), the birds who exc
cuted him, should be landed. 9th
erwise, it's a fair assumption that
they'll keep II up, or they wouldn't
have taken the initial chances.
Reprisal Threats
Oh, yes, it's argued that an anti
Nazi, even If he gets away. will be
scared by threats Of reprisals
against friends and relatives that
he's left behind him.
It's a fair guess, though. that
he'll have tipped these folk of to
what's coming. And. anyway, II
the Gestapo doesn't know who he
is. how's il going TO know just
what friends and relatives OF his
to reprise against? They may be
caught in the jam, TO be sure-but
SOS ANYBODY liable to be caught
in the jam in the midst Of an indis-
criminate massacre.
Until the SoWets became in
volved In the war, alongside the
democracies, the Russian Ogpu
was regarded by the FBI with as
much disfavor as the Gestapo is
today
It's different now.
The Ogpus quite well spoken Of