Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-26
War Today
Hitler Trying
To Ruin Europe
Before Defeat
Nv PIERRE J. HUSS
International News Service star writer

Adolf Hitler has Snarled forth
long-eXpected threat 10 loose
the most shocking terror wave
over Europe ever witnessed in
history.
The proclamation read 10 A
Nszi Party meeting in Munich
by one Of his fanatics represents
the answer of a cornered outlaw
20 the posse which has trapped
him. In effect the proclamation
Is Hitler's answer 10 recent dec
larations of Roosevelt, Churchill
and Stain.
Every word in the proclama-
ton drips hatred for every non
Axis country.
He has announced, although
In yelled language, that the
manpower Of the conquered
lands will he dragged 10 the
bsttlehelds as gun-fodder for
the NaZis.
The sins of the QuislingS, La
walls and others will now crash
back on stricken Europe's head,
for there is no doubt that soon
enough. II not already. the Ges-
tapo dragnet will comb the
homes of luckleSs French, Bel
gians, Luxemburgers, Danes.
Czechs, Dutch, Norwegians and
others to march them off into
the firing line.
THE TWENTIETH century
Attila in Hitler is manifesting
itself. He wants 10 wreck, 10
destroy, to massacre. That
shocking intention has been
lurking in Hitler's breast ever
since he made his first beerhall
speeches.
II grew through the years of
his ascension to totalitarian
power. As far as I could make
out, il sprang from an inner
intuition that the world was
against him, and that he in
tended TO get even by wrecking
as much of the world as possible
before his own downfall.
Hitler said in private circles
many times that If ever defeated
and compelled 10 haul down the
swastika, he would leave no
stone standing in Europe. His
call to the NaZi Party in the
Munich proclamation is the first
step toward that ultra-terroris-
tic plan of destruction.
"The Nazi Party has to break
terror with 10-fold terror" he
said.
BY that he means that Helm
rich Himmler, the blood-stained
killer and Gestapo boss, has
been given carte blanche TO
wipe out human lives and civ
iliZed institutions at will.
AS / know Himmler, he won't
be slow to take the fuehrer at
his word, knocking off a few
personal enemies along with
others.
THE FUEHRER'S proclama-
ton Is the dark harbinger of
the worst terror and blood wave
yet to sweep over Europe. The
next months will overshadow
any blood-bath or oppression
and deportation the occupied
lands have yet seen.
Hardest hit, as always, will be
the leftover Jews in Europe.
Hitler proclaimed before the
Reichstag in 1899 that the Jew
would be made to suffer for a
lost warm other words, the
scapegoat Of a lost war to Ger
many is to be the Jew.
The whole tenor of the Hitler
proclamation is a call from Hit
Ter TO the Nazi Party TO revert
TO the fierce beerhall days of
lawless street fighting and CO.
ercion Of those who opposed
them.
SIGNIFICANTLY. HITLER
appeals not only 10 the old-line
Nazi Party fanatics for support
but also 10 the new fanatics
German youth. He boastfully
: says that youth in Germany has
: been fully trained in the con-
cepts of nazism and transformed
into fanatic Nazis.
He means that German youth
+ knows how TO carry and apply
the torch as well as pillage and
T. destroy in vengeance OF a lost
war of conquest.
Whatever the consequences. II
remains TO be seen whether this
desperate Hitler will have time
TO carry through his Attila-lke
plans of horror over Europe.
The tide of war may catch up
and send him crashing before all
of Europe is left a smoking rum