The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-08

their military pOo1tAoiA 10
= thew may not only demand peac'
J. hit launch putsch to crush Ma
tional Socialism.
Himmler anticipates such a pos
sibility and is prepared to wag,
;. civil war if necessary to maintain
: party control. He is the most pow
q erfu] figure aside from Hitler, ane
! can back his tremendous power
, with his SIS army of Blackshirts
and all the police forces. There
!; are even recent reports that he
now controls the air force.
This internal strife for power be.
tween the Reich's strongest groups
the army and the party-is an.
other of Germany's soft spots.
Virtually all Germans are link
ed with those two groups in one
way or another. Dissension was
seen recently in Denmark, where
the soldiers defied the Gestapo
and helped some Danes to es-
cape to Sweden.
Other weaknesses in Germany s
inter armor lie among 5000, 900, 900
foreign workers awaiting the day
for rebellion and opposition from
the growing underground elements,
not only in Germany but in the
occupied countries.
An even more dangerous weak
ness will develop when her day
of reckoning comes. That is, a
lack of capable leadership for a
new Germany.
The Nazis have killed or i'm
prisoned the opposition leaders OF
1888 and have taken great pains
to see that no leader has been
able to develop since. The Catho-
lie church is the strongest non
Nazi organization able to func-
ton openly.
When the show down comes, it
appears that one of the generals
perhaps Marshal Walther Won
Brauchitsch, who has been in fire.
quent conference with Goering and
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein -
will be the Reich's ''Badoglio," II
there is any leadership at all.
Since Hitler failed in Novem-
Der, 1912, to arrange a separate
peace with Russia, there has been
a flood of Nazi-inspired reports
in neutral countries that the Ger
man masses are worried about
the Allied demands for uncondi-
tional surrender, that there is IAN
other Germany" in the Reich.
The attainments of Cordell Hull,
Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav
Molotov in Moscow and especially
Russian participation in arrang-
ing the terms for the capitulation
of Italy, have provided the Nazi's
with new evidence of united ma
tons united and obstruct German
hopes for separate peace.
So Goebbels must look for new
ways in his effort to save Nazi-
ism. From now on you will see a
widespread propaganda campaign
to inspire sympathy for the Ger
mans in the hope of winning a
compromise from a war-weary
world.
The German people still look
to Hitler as a miracle man-that's
the only reason he's still front
man for the Nazis-and that's why
they'll muster all their energies
to keep the war effort going. The
Germans have scanty diet but
they still eat better than the other
peoples in Nazi-dominated Europe.
And the Nazis have kept their
promises of filling the food ra-
tons.
While the Germans now fight
for an arbitrated peace, there are
at least four different motives.
The Nazis want to save some
remnants of National Socialism
and keep their own fat job; the
military men and Junkers want
to preserve the army's honor and
reputation; the ordinary German
merely wants to save his skin;
business and industry claims to
favor preservation of national hon.
or by replacement of present lead
ers with less egotistical and more
democratic Germans.
| If the Germans fail to win an
arbltrated peace, the home front
collapses and the army sees de-
feat staring it in the face without
being able to gain control, look
for wave of Nazi barbarism that
will make their crimes at Naples
and Lidice and in other war zones
look like misdemeanors. Party
henchmen with war criminal la
| bels over their heads will battle
to the last, for they have nothing
to lose.
Allied bonbings have laid much
Of German industry in ruins. but
German organization and ingenui.
ty isn't dead. Travellers from the
Ruhr report many factories there
are operating again, even though
the workers make their homes in
caves. Production can't match the
output of the United States, Cana
da, Britain and Russia, but it's
sufficient for an extensive defen-
sive war.
German industry is now concen.