The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-19
GERMANY WILL TRY IT AGAIN
 By Sgd Schultz t:.ss ..t r sS s. x .s:. s:s. .:;. .

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 As an Americam newspaper correspondent in Berlin from 1914 to l94l, Sigrld Schultz saw at first hand the events that led from World War to World War III, And she saw the behlndsthe- scenes preparation for the com. ing "war-insp speace" that she warns may culminate In World War HI. This is the story of GermAny's plans tO win the peace, plans that even now are being put into effect
 
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 Many people try to interpret dc. velopments in Europe, and es- peciNlly in Germany, through thelr knowledge Of old-time, upright Germans. Yet the German ohal- acter, both national and individual has In the last 30 years changed to such a degre that what was A logical estimate of character in World War I is sheer foolishneaS in World War II.
 The German army, its drill-mas' terS. Hitler, Himmler, ct al, have aroused, stimulated, and exaggei- ater trails and instincts which have Slumhered in the German people for centuries, to the point where the friendly German in whom so many Americans still believe has ceased to be an important factor in any German group, He is the German of yesterday, It is the German of today with whom we have to dea.. the arrogant, ruthless, intelligent schooner who either suaVely hides his intentions or openly boasts of his brutality.
 It must be stressed that this new German has nothing in common with the descendants of old-timc Germans in the United States aud other countries. Early German immigrants left their native laild because they wanted to build up c new and different kind of life. Generally, their grandchildren have had the advantage of other than pan- German education. They owe no loyalty to the Germany of today, for it Is not the same nation from which their forehearS Stemmed.
 I was In Berlin in 1914 when the Kaiser called his nation to arniA In 1889, was present in the Reiehstag at that early hour of September 1 when Hitler announced the invasion of Poland. No other contrast could have underlined S, well the changes in the German character.
 Tn 1914 e young Norwegian cousin and I roamed thorugh the Berlin streets, quite evidently fore eignerS, and experienced nothing but friendlineSs from the people. We saw the Kaiser address the crowds from the balcony of his castle. We saw the citizens briAB bouquets of the chubby little rcd roses that bloom, in August and throw thelnh to the uniformed troops with their Spokcd helme,S marching to war with their bands hlaring, the brasSeS glittering lii the sunshine, The crowds always showed us ahead to help Us see what was going on.
 On that September day of l930, however, when the Flehrer gave the order otmarch, Germany Wal Q grim, 0 purposeful country Troops left the Berlin railwey station without cheers, In fact the only cheers heard in the streets came from e few people who had been ordered out tr organized groups by their NaSi cells. The streets leading to the temporary Reichstag In the Kroll Oper, House where Hitler was to speak were lined with police, and with Schut2 Staffel men in field gray battle dress instead of their GUS. tomary black uniforms.
 In that somber Berlin one could realize only too clearly that what had remained of gemuetlicll Deutschland had new been swep' away. The atmosphere hung heavy with suspicion and hatred Of all foreigners, including representa- tives of neutral countries,
 During World War I a hushed silence would greet the meni- ton of the invasion of Belgium remmeber the German professor of international law at the Berlin University under whom I studied before the United States entered the war. Professor von Martltz marched up and down the class room literally tearing his gray hair because German troops had violated Belgian neutrality. "This is a crime," the old man said land you will see-Germany will be punished for it."
 I looked around the classroom at the other students, about five young men in field gray, evidently soldiers at home on sick leave They seemed to share the anx- iety and shame of the professor And nothing happened to the old man for expressing freely his re- gret at an act of aggression by the Imperial government.
 But the average German of 1SS1 and 194O apparently left no com- punction when Hitler's troops ifl- vaded one ill-armed neutral C0td.