Evening star., 1943-10-26
Last Man Out Calls
Germany's Morale
'Shocking|y Bad
(Another In a Series.)
BY GUNNAR T. PHIL,
Swedish Journalist,

STOCKHOLM (NANA) Although
there is no organized opposition to
the Nazi leaders, there are men,
nevertheless, millions of them, in
the Reich waiting for the moment
when their hatred of the Nazi party
can be expressed. They are found
in many different walks of life.
will discuss the main groups under
the different headings.
Army: This is the only real
menace to Naziism simply because it
is an organized body of men. Its
weakness lies in the Army officers.
The Prussian tradition is to obey
orders. whatever they may be.
The Army at present lacks a
leader-that is the second great
weakness. Won Brauchitsch is in
sanatorium at Carlsbad, Won Book
is dismissed, Rommel is unpopular
with his fellow generals, who are
jealous of his typically Nazi career
and sudden rise to power from hum
BILE beginnings. Won Mannstein, the
greatest soldier of them all, is no
politician.
No: the Army will not rise until
defeat or collapse at home brings
them forcibly face to face with the
real enemy-Himmler and the
Waffen SIS.
Bishops Defy Nazis.
Church: The Evangelical Church
cannot be reckoned with. because it
is national body. But the Catholic
Church is an international world
power. Catholic bishops. Count
Konrad Preysing, in Berlin, and
Counts Galen OF Munster and
Schultz of Cologne, have not hesi-
tated in their sermons to speak out
fearlessly and openly against the
Nazis.
A story long current in Berlin tells
of a sermon preached by Bishop
Schultz against the lie that limps
through Germany"
Called to account by the Gestapo
for insulting the propaganda min
lister, Goebbels, the bishop replied
Indignantly: But I was referring
to the devil"
Monarchists: There seems little
or no sympathy among the mass of
the German people to restore the
monarchy. The Monarchists' party,
however, is extremely active at pres
ent, enliSting big landowners in East
Prussia and industrialists in West
ern Germany to support their candi-
date, Prince Louis Ferdinand
grandson of the ex-Kaiser. 1t is
doubtful If they meet with much
success
Communists: Until two years ago,
there was a big leaning inside Ger
many toward a Communist govern
ment, but this has now almost dis
appeared for two reasons.
First, bolShevization of the Ger
man Nazi state has gone to such eX-
tremeS-bv total mobilization. state
control of industry and so forth,
German people realize Communism
entails the loss of everything they
consider pleasant and comfortable
Return With Bad Reports.
Second. German soldiers have
brought back from the east front
such tales Of desolation and poverty
in Russia as to render the picture
Of a Russian Communist state dis
tasteful to the majority of Germans.
More probable oppositionists are
| Social Democrats, workers who long
for parliamentary system on Eng
llsh-American lines, trade unions
and ordinary democratic life as
Anglo-Saxons understand it.
I reckon over so per cent of the
German people today secretly, in
heart, belong to this party which,
with Allied aid, consider the event.
tual successor in power to the Nazis.
People ask me every day, How is
morale in Germany?" My answer is
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