Evening star., 1944-10-12
Defense Plans 10 Quiz
Hitler Ex-Aide Today
In Sediiion Trial
Dr.. Rouschnine, Refugee,
Tells Of Fuehrer's Plan
To Cause U. S. Revolt
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES,

Direct testimony that Adolph Hit.
Ter planned q decade ago to torment
. revolution In the United States
and set up national socialist state
were laid before the jury in the
sedition case today as the defense
took over the examination of the
Feuhrer's former confidant, DR.. Her.
mann Rauschning, noted German
refugee author.
Hitler Is named In the Govern.
ment's bill of particulars as the No
! conspirator In the case, and thu
rs defendants on trial are ALLEGED
to have carried out his purpose
through an alleged attempt to un.
dermine the loyalty Of the armet
forces In this country. The defense
repeatedly has challenged the prose.
cution to show anywhere in Hitler's
writings or In any other authentic
documents of the Nazi regime the
worldwide conspiracy charged by
the Department of Justice and par.
ticularly any plot to incite the over
throw Of the American Government
DR.. Rauschning, who took the
stand in District Court late yester-
day, was the first witness to quote
Hitler directly.
Tells Of Conversation.
Adolf, Hitler said," the witness
told the jury, that he had no fear
the United States would again join
colition of western democracie,
against Germany. He said the
United States was threatened with q
bloody revolution. He said he woule
be able to make this latest revolu.
ton come to pass. He explained
the methods by which he woule
be able to paralyze the nationa
unity Of the United States and ths
power of resistance Of this country.
This conversation, DR.. Rauschninf
said, occurred October 1s, 1888, a
the chancellory in Berlin at ths
time he was president Of the Frel
City Of Danzig. The witness ex.
planned that he had just returned
from q League of Nations meeting
In Germany, and he reported Il
Hitler that the situation there wa.
very tense, following the Withdrawal
Of Germany from the league, ane
Great Britain might 60 to wal
again against Germany. with th'
possibility that eventually Americs
would be drawn In.
Hitler, said DR.. Rauschning, saw
no possibility that the United State.
would intervene.
He explained" the witness said
that the United States was no
really a well-established nation
but a nation in the making. H.
said the cleavages in the popula.
ton could be widened to disunit,
the country"
Recalls Talk Year Later.
Nearly a year later, DR.. Rausch'
ming testified, Hitler said the ides
Of war with America WAS ridiculcus
"He mentioned" the witnAss re.
called, that during that year therl
had been . riot Of marines on ar
American battleship, and this wa.
an example that proved that al
least the American Navy would bt
fertile soil for propaganda"
Or. Rauschning said Hitler ex.
planned 1t would be easy for him te
follow in America the methods he
had used in Germany to neutral
ize" the police and military forces
toward his policies.
Another time, the witness said
Hitler and Goebbels and others dis
cussed America at q conference in
Hitler's private apartment In Ber-
lin, and it was agreed that Nazi
propaganda could be spread through
various groups In America.
I'VE have to paralyze the will and
national unity Of this and othe,
countries" Hitler was quoting as
saying, as he mentioned also Po.
land, France and Great Britain.
HE said,' the witness reported,
that the great issue WIS to liberate
the world from the poison of democ-
racy, with its degenerating doctrine
OF liberty and equality
Policy in America.
It would be the policy in America,
DR.. Rauschning said Hitler told
them, to play on the resentment of
the majority against Negroes, Jews
and other racial minorities, at the
same time emphasizing the necessity
Of the strong discipline of q power
ful state to dispel trouble between
opposing groups.
Early in 1884 Hitler, the witness
said, again reverting to the United
States in general discussion OF
conditions, mentioned groups OF
German origin in this country as
valuable contacts, adding, I'VE will
have a German SA (storm troopers)
there and a Hitler Youth" -
1t would be necessary, the witness
said Hitler told him, to weaken the
discipline of the armed forces and
the police, just as he had done ir
Austria, where the Nazis gained
the support Of the officers and al
least the neutrality of the privates. ;
Hitler was said to have empha.
sized that the technique was to worl
up sympathy for a National Socialist
state through the traditions anc
historic surroundings OF each coun.
try, rather than trying to impose q
foreign type of government which
would be strange to the people
Thus, the witness said, Hitler ex.
planned that he could cite George
Washington for his purpose, be.
cause the first President was mo,
really a democrat, but an aristo.
crat," and similarly Lincoln coulc
be mentioned as man Of the peo.
pie who would be sympathetic te
the aims Of Germany.
Propaganda Artillery"
Hitler, the witness added, called
propaganda the artillery and trench
warfare" Of modern conquest.
Once, at Berchesgaden, the witnes.
said, Hitler described the basic prin-
ciple Of his police as world revolu-
ton"
DR.. Rauschning testified through
a storm Of defense objections te
nearly every question. Defense at
torneys contended repeatedly that
this testimony had nothing to dc
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