The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-27

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 The evidence was placed before the War Trials Court by Sidney AL derman, assistant U. s. prosecutor.
 Alderman also read into the rec ord a speech by Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl made in late 1943 which re- vealed that Adolf Hitler was then refusing a growing demand by many influential Germans that he try to negotiate peace with the United States, Russia and Britain.
 Jodl was speaking to a special meeting of Munich party leaders in an attempt to combat the wave of defeatism in Germany.
 up and down the country the devil of subversion strides" he said. 'All towards are seeking a way out. They say we must negotiate while there is still something in hand. In this war there can only be 8 fight to the end.
 "Capitulation is the end of the nation and of Germany. Italy suf- fered not only a mild defeat but moral defeat. She broke down in- ternally. The result has been not the peace she expected but through cowardice of these criminal traitors a fate thousand times harder than the continuation of the war at our side has been brought to the Italian people"
 Jodl revealed that Hitler had hoped to attack in the west in 1899 after the end of the Polish cam- paign but bad weather and shortage of armaments delayed the attack.
 Meantime" he said, i've were confronted by yet another problem which had to be settled promptly: the occupation of Norway and Dem mark. First, there was danger that Britain would seize Scandinavia which besides effecting strategic en- circlement from the north would stop the import of iron and nickel.
 Second, there was the realization of our own maritime necessities which made it imperative for us to secure free access to the Atlantic.
 The question now arose whether or not we should carry the war into Britain by landing on grand scale. Furthermore, in view of the possible eventuality of the U. s. A. entering the war it was necessary to take into consideration the oc- cupation of number of advanced support points in the Atlantic, for instance Iceland and the Azores"
 Jodl said the attack on Britain and occupation of the Atlantic islands was rejected because the Germans lacked naval and air strength.
 Jodl referred bitterly to Italy's attack on Greece, made with to- tally inadequate means" but said Germany had had to rescue her partner and also keep the British from getting a foothold in Greece from which to menace the Ro- nanian oil fields.
 He admitted that Germany had underestimated Russia's strength and that the rapid loss of North Africa was likely to evoke doubt of the correctness of our wider stra- tegy".
 He also admitted that it had not proved possible to defeat the Bri- tish Air Force or shatter the Red Army. He said the Luftwaffe could not be held in combat long enough to defeat the RAF because at had to be mobilized against Rus eia.
 JodlS speech included 8 bitter reference to Spain which was read into tn record but which, notes showed, he deleted when he spoke at Munich.
 He said that Germany had count ed on bringing Spain into the war and Seizing Gibraltar but that this objective twas wrecked by the re- s;stance of the Spanish, or I better say Jesuit" Foreign Minister Ser rano Suner.
 Jodl exhorted the Gauleiters to ferret out traitors and develop the will to resist. He told them that the necessity for war had been clear to everyone when Germany entered hostilities. It wasn't till the situation had become acute, he said, that the German people be- gan to ask whether they had not undertaken too much.
 Alderman asserted that Jodl's bpeeCu lQSllCllleu llIIl COIupleISlS with the Nazi conspirators.
 The prosecution introduced a memorandum written by Hjalmar Schacht to Hitler in 1885 revealing that Germany had spent $44,000,000 on secret armaments that year.
 It also showed that Germany had built up a deficit of $240, ,000 900 900 between 1928 and 1885. This debt, largely due to rearmament, was be- ing financed by using the money market for short term credits.
 All Germany's resources must be concentrated to finance armaments," Schacht said. He urged reduction of all other expenditures.
 Medical experts have decided al- most unanimously that Rudolph Hess is temporarily insane, and the tribunal is expected to hand down a ruling Friday dismissing him from trial until he is cured, reliable informants said.
 French, Russian and American medical reports show complete &C., cord" about Hess, it was understood, while the British disagree slightly on minor points.
 The tribunal is expected to order