Evening star., 1944-10-05
Corporal Tells Of Trip
10 Germany in 1898
AS Member Of Bund
Youth Move Member
Swore to Be True to
Nuzis, Sedition Jury Told
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

kozis. Sedition Jury ToIe
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
A youthful Army noncom, who
was under cross-examination yes
terday at the sedition trial, told the
District Court jury how he and q
group Of other 'teen-age youngsters
belonging to the Youth Movement
OF the German-American .Bund
were taken to Germany in 1888
taught at Nazi school and pledged
with a ceremonial oath to be "true
to the German cause"
The witness, Corpl. Roy H
Schlote, 23, stationed at Mobile
Ala, said he joined the youth
branch Of the bund at Milwaukee
when he was IA. He attended sum-
mer bund camps in Wisconsin, he
said, and was selected by his leader
to represent Milwaukee on the trfr
to Germany.
There were about 30 in the youth
party, he said, with about half the
members girls. In New York, he
added, they met Fritz Kuhn, then
national bund leader, and other
ofiicials, and were told they were
going to Germany to learn Nazl
principles so they could bring them
back to teach youth groups.
Told to Hide u. s. FIags.
aVy told rru fIn .~sL
that our youth movement card
would be more valuable in Germany
than q passport"
When they arrived in Germany
Corpl. Schlote said, they were met
at the ship by an official named
Hugo Haas. They were wearing
tiny American flags in their lapels
he related, and Haas told them to
put these flags away, because "they
would be considered an insult to the
German government"
For two weeks, he said, they went
sightseeing throughout Germany
and some visited relatives. Then
they met in Berlin, and there were
two meetings of the youth move
ment which were addressed by
Hitler, Goebbels and other Reich
leaders. Hitler. he recalled, spoke
about the significance of the youth
movement.
The tourists then were taken tx
a school, and given a course in ma.
tional socialism which lasted thres
or four weeks, Corpl. Schlote said
There were students from othel
countries, he explained, and they
were instructed by lecturers from
various parts of Germany.
Tells Of Instructions.
what was your instruction? p
asked Chief Prosecutor o. Johr
Rogge.
They explained the principles o.
the German Socialist party" tha
witness replied. There were In.
structions in the German religion
which was under control of the
party; of race, German history
culture and aims"
What were you taught about ma.
tional socialism,"
How it was founded, what its
aims were and how sooner or latel
its principles would be covered
throughout the world"
The witness was II at the time
He said when the party was en-
barking on the return voyage to the
United States, the notes they had
taken at the lectures, souvenirs ant
other effects relating to the schoo
were collected. These were re.
turned to the students by bund.
iSt named Dinkleacker when they
got back to New York, Corpl. Schlote
said.
They Took Oath.
'Was there an oath admins.
tered?" asked the prosecutor.
Eyes, we took an oath to be trut
to the German cause. No one wa
supposed to know about the oath
It was supposed to be kept quiet
And nothing was supposed to be sale
about the school. We were not k
write letters about it or tell any
one when he got back"
Afterward, at bund youth meet.
ings, they had the same close-ordel
drill they were taught in Germany
sang from a German song book ane
greeted one another with "Sieg he'll.
Corpl. Schlote said he left th'
bund around 1910, because "he wa!
to understand just wha
was expected and what was goint
on" He added: II decided it wa
no place for me, being an American
and wanting to be an American"
Under cross-examination by Maxi
milan j. st. George, attorney TO
Joseph E. McWilliams, one of tn.
26 defendants, the witness admitted
he had heard the Dickstein Hous.
Committee had investigated tn,
bund and given 1t "a clean bill O
health" He also conceded that h,
had heard nothing at bund you'll
meeting un-American that he coult
recall until he went to Germany.
Rude Awakening.
1.-THE trip" the corporal explained
"made me realize just how un
American the brnd was"
Lawrence Dennis, q defendap
representing himself, pressed tn
witness to describe the oath he hat
taken in Germany, but he could no
recall it in detail, remembering onl!
that it pledged them to loyalty t,
Germany. They made q ceremon!
of 1t, he said, standing in q circl,
at night while an official pronounces
the pledge.
Asked If it was an oath to sup
port Nazi Germany, Corpl. Schlot'
said he supposed you could cal
1t that.
Mr.. Dennis demanded why tn,
witness had waited so long aftel
returning from Germany, two years
to leave the bund.
Il had q girl in the bund," he ex
planned, provoking laughter.
Later in the tilt with Mr.. Dennis
the corporal said he had not sprea,
the teachings he had learned Il
Germany, as he was supposed t
do, but merely had taken part Il
sports and social gatherings spon
sored by the bund "and had q goo
time"