Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-27
Germany.
Rogue Nation.
Must Perish
People in Postwar Era
( Would Peril Peace
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

I'ttE Atlantic Cnarter ana the
- four freedoms are good prop
uganda among the other races
of the world and, as such, should
not be argued too seriously here
at home. but Americans and the
British and, we may hope and
suppose, the Russians, and, of
course, the Italians and French.
should be satisfied with nothing
less than the determination of
the German nation as a menace
to the peace and safety Of the
world.
Anything short of total oblit-
Grafton of Germany as nation
would be a compromise with the
cause of the Second World War
in % years and the mere de-
struction of Hitler, Himmler,
Goebbels and the gestapo will
not cure the evil.
These men merely express and
direct the German nation. which
firmly believes that Germans
have special rights superior TO
the rights of all others and which
cannot live without killing.
THE plan for a beautiful peace
Il ignores the nature and his
tory of Germany.
1t is a rogue nation. so bad
that it has forfeited its right
TO live and the rest OF humanity
should not feel called upon 10
take the risk and assume the
task of reforming an incorrigible
and incurable killer.
The rest OF the world will be
too busy with its own urgent
tasks when this war is over 10
undertake to police and educate
Germany into the ways OF
civilization.
Obliteration OF the German
nation doesn't mean a massacre
of so million or 80 million Ger
mans. but il does mean the eX-
termination of Germany as a
state.
As individuals. Germans are
capable OF passable decency,
and the export Germans who
came here to escape the brutality
of Germans in the mass at home
have been and have begotten
fine Americans.
RUT, as a nation, they have
- put themselves in the posi-
ton of an habitual criminal with
a cunning intelligence and suave
manners who has finally COM
mitted a murder so outrageous
as to prove that society can't do
anything with him.
What would the world be
without the German nation?
1t probably would not settle
down 10 a long future OF unin-
terrupted peace. but at least
humanity would know that the
most warlike and treacherouS
criminal in the community OF
nations had been finally and
irrevocably put away, never
again TO impose on the trust and
pity of better peoples.
1t shouldn't be so hard 10 do.
for once Germany is whipped
the people will 60 to pieces and
turn on Hitler as, the other
time. they repudiated the kaiser
and his German war, and In this
disorganized state could be han
died we'll by a determined and
efficient enemy.
DEPORTATION of masses Of
~ them seems to be one desir-
able phase of the plan, for IL Is
when they are Germans all to-
gether in Germany that they
are. most dangerous.
They have belief that some
special quality passes from their
own soil into their bodies and
souls and are capable Of a NOR
bid self-pity which whips them
into horrible furies and sets
them on the warpath again and
again.
Their lands should be taken
over by outright conquest and
de-GermaniZed, though II take
100 years 10 exterminate the
spirit that makes them so dam
eerous as n nation. and IL is 10
be hoped that this time the VIC
tors will not soften and forget 10
carry out the threat TO put 10
death every German man or
woman who can be shown 10
have had responsible part in
the planning of the war. the
execution of hostages or the in
vasions of Czecho-Slovakia. Po-
land, Norway, Denmark and the
low countries.
THIIS will take strong detern-
Il nation, for it will be
messy task. and the whine that
went up from Germany in the
years of the Versailles treaty
will be heard again but louder.
But the Allied armies are now
teaching soldiers that they must
be tough and kill, and the vari-
Gus governments Of the victori-
Gus countries when this war Is
done should be just as tough in
the execution Of their phase OF
the task.
Other nations have disap-
peared and the world has
rocked along without them, and
it should be kept in mind that