The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-09-18
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Washington, ID. C.
A mystery that has perplexed
many laymen and some officials in
Washington with respect to the man.
ner in which the government has
forestalled a mammoth Nazi plan
for sabotaging American industry
can now be explained. There win
be no official confirmation of the
explanation but it comes to me from
what are frequently described as
Informed sources"-which really
means ga man who has never lied
to me so far"
In a sentence: The man who
wrecked elaborate Nazi plans for
blowing up munitions plants, rail-
way terminals, bridges, electric
light and power plants in the United
States was none other than Adolf
Schikelgruber, Hitler himself.
He did IL when he tossed the
Ribbentrop- MoIotov pact out Of the
window just after Nazi armies had
launched their surprise drive ON
Russia.
To understand what a job the
fuehrer did for himself we must
remember that for years, with the
methodical care of the German
mind, a detailed plan had been
worked out for the sabotage of
American industry. Even during
the last war there were some ter
rible and effective pieces of sabo-
tage accomplished by a compare
lively unframed and unregimented
crowd of German spies. The famous
Black Tom explosion which wrecked
the huge New Jersey plant not far
from New York city, was an ex-
ample. An International mixed
claims commission finally awarded
huge damages to the United States
for that act.
But the Nazis began where the
kaiser left off. They had schools for
the training of saboteurs especially
selected from Germans who had
lived in the United States and were
lured back to Germany and either
bribed or inundated into undertake
ing the work of destruction in terri
tory with which they had become
familiar.
Details Of this training came out
in the secret testimony in the recent
trial of the Nazi saboteurs in WASH
ington. But much of it was ancient
history to the department of justice.
And the way the advance informa-
ton came into the hands of our in
telligence officers was this:
While the Germans had their pact
Of friendship with Russia, Nazi
agents were busy making friends
with Communists all over the world
in the hope that they could use them
for subversive activities. The Com
munists naturally did not turn a
deaf ear and Hitler's agents told all.
Then came the double cross, Ger
many attacked Russia, and Com
munist and Nazi who had always
hated each other thoroughly gave
vent to their real feelings. The
plans which the Nazis had confided
to the Communists were turned over
to the governments of the United
Nations.
The United States also had been
picking up little information about
the German sabotage methods in
other ways-such as by planting a
man or two in the German Gestapo.
These men learned, from one
source or another, that the Germans
had hired safe crackers in this coun-
try to steal the blue prints of fac
tories from insurance companies,
which always demand detailed de-
scription and plan Of all buildings
they insure. The plans were stolen,
photographed and returned. That is
one example. Many other little de-
vious tricks and enterprises were
revealed by dint Of our own investi-
gators, and with the help of the
Communists who had complete and
exhaustive data, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation was able to take the
necessary steps to break up the
complicated plots and counter-plots
to wreck American industry. So far
there have been very few, if any,
major cases which have been brand
ed as sabotage in this country,
thanks to Mr.. Hitler.
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