Evening star., 1942-08-16
HimmIer Reported Rising in HitIer's Favor,
But Goerinq Bides Time for Peace Deal

against any anti-Nazi revolt. Hmm
ler has built up his private army.
They have till now possessed every
known weapon except aircraft
without these. however. the Waffen-
SIS would be no match for the
Wehrmacht, even though Himmler
also has the Gestapo at his back.
| Because. when the revolt comes the
unheaval will not begin on the
home front, where there is no pos
sibility of elf-organization, but
among the troops beaten on the
| field of battle They will be armed,
trained to work as team and led
by officers of the Wehrmacht
| IF Himmler is to defend the regime
in such crisis, he must have air.
craft. He has long been asking for
5000. But the man in command of
| the Luftwaffe is Himmler's arch
enemy, Goering. And behind Goer-
/ ing is the Wehrmacht. Only one
man could force Goering to give
way-the supreme commander in
chief of the Wehrmacht Until the
end Of last year that man was Field
Marshal Won Brauchitsch. When,
last winter, the military situation in
Russia became so critical for Ger
many, Hitler felt he must be pre-
pared for all emergencies. He
ordered Brauchitsch to hand over
the aircraft Himmler wanted.
Brauchitsch refused, because that
would have meant there would be
two armies IN the Reich In the
event of civil war these armies were
certain to be opposed to each other.
| That would have meant disaster for
Germany.
Hitler Took Over Command.
But Hitler was taking no chances.
He dismissed Brauchitsch and made
himself supreme commander in
chief. That empowered him to give
Himmler the aircraft needed. But
the military crisis passed. Hitler
could afford to wait little. Once
again a crisis is now approaching.
So Hitler passed the order. Goering
had to obey. Hence, after "a
lengthy conference" Goering con-
fers the aviation medal on Himmler
ito mark the comradely kinship be-
tween the Luftwaffe and the Waf-
fen-SS."
That, however, is not the end of
the struggle.
Most Of Goering's present vast
fortune was made through German
rearmament. AS commissar for the
four-year plan, he directed the en-
tire productive operations of the
Reich. Under the Nazis, everything
in Germany had to be reorganized
Firstly, to make Germany blockade
proof. Secondly, to arm the country
to stand the strain of totalitarian
war. Germany economy ha dto sub
NIT to complete transformation. At
every transaction, Goering got his
"rake-off." When the German iron
and steel industries were recon-
structed for war, Goering made
them virtual state monopolies. All
orders were placed by the state, SO
nobody could exist who did not
accept the prices and conditions
Goering fixed.
To make Germany independent of
imported iron ores, Goering formed
new state-owned company called
the Reichswerke Hermann Goering,
to exploit the low-grade ores of
Germany. Goering soon turned this
company into a trust-by far the
biggest in Europe-first absorbing
the Alpha -Montan Gesellschaft of
Austria, then the Skodawerke of
CzechoSlOvakia, then all the great
metallurgical concerns of occupied
countries. One by one the mighty
works of the Ruhr and Silesia came
into line. Goering allowed them all
to earn substantially from state
orders, but reserved for himself in
the perpetuity percentage of the
turnover.
How does Goering imagine he
could use his immense power to save
the Third Reich?
Goering Wants to Rise.
Briefly Stated-not at all! Goer-
ing has long since realized that Ma
tional Socialism could never survive
the shock of war. let alone of defeat.
Knowing that, Goering is far too
egotistic, too sordid, too coarse to
care what becomes of Nazidom
When Hitler perishes with the
regime he created, Goering wants
to rise triumphantly from the ashes
TO rule the Fourth Reich. Often
enough, in discussing tentatively
with foreign listeners the end of the
war, Goering has made it plain
that, as far as he was concerned,
"the person of Hitler would be no
obstacle to a settlement"
Peace, as Goering visualizes it,
will come by agreement among the
worlds heavy industrialists, inter-
national bankers and military lead
ers. These are to emerge from the
struggle with tighter grip on the
world than before the war began.
Goering conceiyes 1t to be his per-
sonal task to arrange an agreement