Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-24
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Nozi Order to Resist Allies

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orders and has remained quietly at
home.
Among the farmers almost none
obeyed either order, except the
youths who were forcibly modified.
But among the townfolk and farm
ers it is true that an overwhelm-
ing majority Of the youths did not
resist mobilization. At least they
now are modified, and there are no
reliable reports that any anti-Nazi
resistance was apparent among
them, all evidence leading instead to
the conclusion that they are rally
ing very violently around the Nazi
cause.
The half of any town population
that did decide to 60 along to the
last ditch with the Nazis consists
generally of youths, all Nazi party
leaders. most Nazi party members
and practically everybody with any
kind of job they may have owed to
the Nazis. For instance. in all the
German towns We have taken to
date we have found only one Nazi
party leader-a 70-year-old man
who was block warden" which
is the lowest rank in the Nazi party
duties, consisting merely of collect
ing dues from five party members.
None of any higher rank has yet
deserted the party.
Revolt Held Unlikely.
When we come into a town we find
the policemen and flremen have all
gone away with the Nazis, and most
Of the postofnce, railroad and public
utility employees, most Of the school
teachers and most of the bankers
and theri employees. Until the people
of these types-particulArly the
police-desert the Nazi cause, it is
plain, according to all students of
revolution, that no anti-Nazi revolu-
ton is possible within Germany.
Among the people who have re-
manned in their towns and on their
farms, it Is plain they made no
violent display of courage to defy
the Nazis. The Nazis were too
busy running away themselves to
exercise much control. In Korneli-
munster the Nazis seem to have
treid to threaten some OF those who
remained at home. ordering them
out at gun point, but not one was
shot or arrested.
At Eilendorf. according to the new
Mayor, many people told the Nazis
openly they refused to leave their
hoYooc ood thu No1ie took Tho ,o,,c
docilely and went away. This hap
pened, declared the Mayor, because
the Nazis were all drunk. The Nazis
had made house toulouse search
and conflscated all the liquor on
the grounds that when the Ameri-
cans entered they would get drunk
and shoot up the town. After that
there wasn't sober Nazi in Ellen
dorf for two days, and they all went
rolling off together toward the
Rhine.
Typical Reaction.
Among the Germans who re-
manned. the typical reaction to the
eloquent Nazi appeal to the Ger
mans to come to their rescue was
voiced by a 40-year-old man who,
with his pretty, 31-year-old wife,
has been living one of the most
moving romances encountered in a
long time She is Jewish, he is
Aryan. They were married in 1888,
after the advent Of Hitler but be-
fore the PRONUNCIATION of the Nurem-
berg laws prohibiting such mar
riages.
All kinds of pressure was put on
him to divorce her, but he refused.
Their two children have been la
beled officially "illegitimate, and
have been treated officially as SUCH
Friends have found it embarrassing
to visit them, but the wife told me
today that many have managed to
do so nevertheless, and life has
been nervous, but not too bad"
The husband owned a large weav-
ing mill In Aachen, but when the
Germans started demobilizing some
of their industries in 1912 his was
the first to be closed. But a year
later, when Allied bombings de-
stroyed many of Aachen's factories.
he was allowed to reopen his mill
Last month he was modified into
the Todt organization.
Make Rendezvous.
When the American advance
neared the German border, the
husband and wife made a rendez-
vous together She said she and
the children would hide in a lime
quarry near Kornelimunster: he
said he would desert and join them.
When he read the passionate Nazi
appeal he told himself: "Oh, now is
the time for all good men to come
to their senses" and he lit out and
Joined his family.
About half the townsfolk and
nearly all the farmers seemed to
have the same reaction when they
read Goebbels' mastery exhorta-
tory sentences.
They must be really licked if
they talk like this" these people
though, land now is the time to
climb off the bandwagon.
Nothing more, nothing less. These
Germans didn't get any democratic
religion. They just got a stroke of
horse sense, and they had to be hit
over the head with our artillery to
get it, too.
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