The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-21

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 coFrespOndents In Berlin from
 1919 to l0Al. slgrld Schultz saw
 at first hand the events that led
 from World W1r l to World War
 n, And she saw the behind"the-
 scenes preparation for the cam"
 Ing "War-In-p -peace" that the
 warns may cufminate in World
 War III. This ls the story of
 GOrmAny's plans to win the
 peace, plans that even now are
 being put into effect.
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 Although the Nagi germ was eul- tured in Germany through changes Ln the national character during the past half century, 1t has deyel' oped many possibilities for infect Ing the national health of other countries, NaziSm 's, In fact, An in- ternatlonal disease. It Is, further, oil the more likely to attack in une%- pected places, since under the m- pact of the war It's carriers nave gone underground.
 Way back in LandSberg days the NaN Party chieftains purposely picked out men with special foreign connections to work on susceptible groups abroad. As the Party grew in power, volunteers turned up or were ierreted out to be absorbed into skeleton organizations within the Party framework, each organization specializing in Q specific country Tie political emphaseS in each case differed with the varying national characteristics involved.
 The original plan evolved at LandSberg called for the use ot local anti-Semitie leaders aS Nasi pioneers in foreign lands. Tn time a vast nc tof organizations Bprang LID to exploit the political poSsi' biiities of anti-semitism, including inc Alliance Chretiene Arlenne' with It's first headquarters ? Paris, the Anti-Jewish World League, founded in Nuremberg, and the Word Service, branching out rom Erfurt, with millions of marks 70 spend on propaBanaa' .
 The age-oid racket of anti'Seml' tic secret cabals may not pc m; portant in itself. But co-ordlnated by wealthy organizer and pig Nazis controlled concerns, 1t menaeeS any decent tolerant community. Espec. iaIly since 1t IS often forgotten that tolerance must be firmly protected
 The Bait German, Alfred Rosen:. berg. who ran the Foreign Political Office an dthe institute known as inc Schooling House in Dahlem near Berlin, was not content with put one Nazi headquarters in neignnoflns countries. He visualiged the advant- aeee of maintaining two groups-an ooen organization, and Q secret one that would work effectively unaeE cover of the publicity inevitaply aroused by it's blatant brother.
 The Netherlands, for instance, had an official NaA Party undsr pr. Anton Adian Mussert. Then the secret, more radical, party was launched and the Nazis were able to keen Mussert under their thumb bv threatening him with his riNal' | I interviewed Mussert in utrecnt ID le36. He made a point Of mention ing that he rejected some NaM ten- etsi Holland was satisfied with her n,,een. for instance, and could not therefore subscribe to Naz condem- s..1tc,, of wornen as inferior in ot- ticial posts. . 1,,..,,
 Sir Harry Deterding, the Dutch oil king, in a class apart put stlll A .-a i sympathizer, has his own ,,ses to the Party. Believing that Nazisrn stood as a bulwark agains! Communism, Deterding financed many Naz economic-infiltration scbemes in Southeastern Europe
 The NaN set-up in the Netnef- lands can be taken as characVerlstIC of developments in nearly every other foreign country, including tne United States of America.
 The Nazis obviously prize conquest of the United States above other countries. They have, however, en- countered so much opposition to their best tactics that they estap. iished. in addition to their direct centers of infiltration within tns country, indirect affiliates outside ~, against the day when the war would c,irtail too-active internal work. The stead of employing Germans in thls instance, they exploited tne many agencies functioning in Spain ano in South America. They count ed on using our sister continent as A spr;ngboard agains us.
 Ever since World War l. Her- man aristocrats and big nusiness- men. preceding official German propaganda agents. have ctiltivat ' z arlsto1rats and businessmen m snain, Portugal, and South America General Wilhelm von Faupel. an Is. scciate of General Ludendorft ln 1oi. spent years in South America building up sympathy for tlie Ger man cause and inaugurating acc tivist centers. Whatever mistakes the United states made he ana ms a xIes promptly enlarged and distort- Cd. They reached far into the aris- fncrncw. the business groups the ~~9.lfaru and fhn UeFr1a He0GinVS8,