Evening star., 1943-01-31
Nazis Unable 10 5way
German Descendants
Here, u. 5. StudyFinds
Stote Department
Reveals Failure of
Attempts by Reich
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

Nazi efforts to organize Ameri-
= can citizens of German descent
under Hitler's banner met with
little response" the State De
partment said last night in pub
fishing voluminous study OF
Nazi-ism's principles and aims.
The 51o-page publication, released
on the 10th anniversary of Hitler's
assumption of power in Germany
traces the origin of Nazi theology
IN German thought of past gener-
ations, and describes in detail the
! party's methods in seeking to moh.-
lize all racial" Germans outside
the Reich into the Fuehrer's service
Documents Quoted.
Numerous documents, ranging
from official Nazi pronouncements
to German newspapers disparag-
ing account of Actress Marlene
Deitrich's American naturalization
are included in the book to support
such conclusions as:
l. THE political and economic
principles or National Socialism are
diametrically opposed to those of
American democracy"
2. Origin of all the basic ideologi-
cal concepts of the Nazi movement
-"Volk, racial supremacy, the lead
( ership principle, rule by an elite
class or single party, the totalitarian
{ state, Lebensraum, and the use of
military force as an instrument Of
policy"-are to be found in Ger
/ tain aspects of German political
thought of the past century and
half"
3. The Nazi totalitarian state
does not recognize personal liber-
ties for the individual"
Subject of Discrimination
4. Political objectives of National
Socialism are the internal unifica-
ton OF the German people and ex-
ternal expansion"-and the second
/ objective was the subject for a
great deal of dissimulation up to
/. the outbreak of the present war"
S. Germans in America who were
] under the influence of Nazi ideas
found it very easy to assume
American citizenship" for personal
convenience or on orders from the
Reich, while not forsaking allegiance
to Hitler.
AS a significant indication of
the extent of the problem that will
face the United Nations after they
win this war in guarding against a
future threat to world peace from
Germany, the book places consider
able emphasis on the development
of the basic principles of Nazijsm
in German thought long before Hit
ler's time.
Nazis Add Nothing to Thought.
"The Naz!s have contributed prac-
tically nothing that is original to
German thought" it asserts after
reviewing earlier writings of such
German philosophers as Johann
Gottfried Herder Q744-1803. Joseph
CORES Q776- i848), Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel G77o-183D, Fried
rich Wilhelm Nietzsche U844-19OO),
Ernst Moritz Arndt 0769-186O),
Gen. Carl Won Clausewitz U780-
183D and many others.
"By the use of unscrupulous, de-
ceitful and uninhibited tactics, how
ever, they (the NazD have been able
to realize many of the objectives
which had previously existed only
In theory" the book points out.
The Nazi insistence that all per-
sons with German blood, regardless
of their citizenship, are Germans
owing allegiance TO Hitler is ex-
planned in great detail as a basic
. part of the program of using organ
ized German minorities to further
Germany's war aims, as was done
in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugo-
slavia and the Netherlands.
at is particularly appropriate"
the State Department said, that
this study be released on the oc-
casion of the tenth anniversary of
the Nazi accession to power in Ger
many.
Master, Slave World Aim.
During the past decade the Nazis
tave been in position to work effec-
lively as leaders of a nation on their
program of world conquest envision-
ing master and slave relationship
with the Germans in the position
OF the master race.
"The calculated Nazi plan to To-
ment unrest in foreign countries
through the use of German minor
ities is part of the design of world
conquest. This plan is based on the
concept that blood ties are stronger
than allegiance to a state. The
Nazis have sought to impose obli-
cations to Germany on persons of
German descent whose ancestors
left Germany generations ago to
seek freedom and economic oppor-
tunity in other lands"
One of the strongest statements
cited of the Nazi attitude toward
Germans abroad is passage from q
1886 speech by Ernst Wilhelm Bohle,
leader of the Nazi foreign organi-
zation, who was responsible for WIN
ming over to NaZiism those racial
Germans outside the Reich. He
said.
The Fuehrer had to come in Or
der to hammer into all of US the
fact that the German cannot choose
and may not choose whether or not
he will be a German but that he
was sent into this world by God as
a German and that God thereby had
laid upon him as German duties
of which he cannot divest himself
without committing treason tC
Providence.
Drowned in Melting Pot"
THE wonderful thing about oul
new Reich Is that this Reich vii
not voluntarily release a single one
of its citizens from his holy duties
to his people"
Although there is scant specific
mention of the German American
Bund, the book contains numerou;