Detroit evening times., 1945-07-18


II - he had disappeared from public
\ YA.Y33}H3 life in Germany toward the end
\ of 1910 and there was also very
\ 17TE(C4 little mention of him throughout
i 1941. Various theories and queries
\ l1]l3E1 were put forward Had he
\ quarreled with Hitler? Was he
O under house arrest? Was the high
NO. Q command taking over and ousting
\ Nazi officials from power? Had
OF 'er.e, he taken to drugs again. The last
was considered the most likely of all.
In January 1912 however, he took out his notebook
again this time to write his of conversation he had
had with DR.. Robert Ley head of the Nah labor front.
IN HANDWRITING which now showed obvious deteriors-
ton, he set down:
"Dr. Ley (KarinhalD Jan. %.
German labor front contributions suspended fos
front soldiers.
Benefits to be maintained.
New fpal settlement Of old pensions after
Inclusion of small and smallest income classes L.
"Fuehrer likes it very much That would be bes
way. Ley should organize the matter first.
Suggestion of lunch for old party members to meet
Assistance for evacuees"
yJNHE labor contributions wages
i actually additional workers since nobody could
get a job without being member Of the labor 'front.'
1t appears that it took three and half
years of war before the Nazi government could be
persuaded to waive these so-caed union fees" for
soldiers or, precisely, for front line sodiers"
Other servcemen apparently compelled paying
fees although these must have
their soldiers pay Until then it that all serycemen,
whether front line threatened with forfeit of their
union benefits if they stopped paying the fees.
The suggestion Of luncheon be arranged for I'D party
members cold not by but by of membership to
Goerng and talk him gives insight into the mood
the inside Germany The had for months
War Deariness spreading in the rank
and file of the Nazi party. Hence this idea OF an
informal luncheon partly to flater Coerings desre
for personal popularity, partly to raise the morale
of "oid members" Who Would feel honored by Goer
inss presence and spread the gospel of what ne told
them.
SSsTANCE for evacuees necessary That problem,
n like of social welfare in Ley's
January 1912 evacuation Of German cities,
particularly in the west had already started.
month later Goering Ley again and made these notes
"Dr. Ley (Feb. 20).
Retention of staff for preparation
Care Of foreign workers by German labor front. Has
already but proper system Foreign workers
arrive i'll tsyphis) and mostly rested Recruit
ing in foreign countres-rans camps texamnationcheckuq
Transfer factories cared for there For
this commissar who takes total responsibility Dr. Ley
himself commissar'
TT WAS apparently Goering decide the last
the deferment of certain people from military
service Ley wanted keep staff of architects and techncians
for postwar housing schemes The military made difficulties
perhaps because this only of Leys roteges to
dodge military Ley sought Goerings intervention.
The beginning of 1912 also the time when Hitler began
mobilize workers from all Europe for slave labor IN
Germany
The results were not too satisfacory-appar many
unsuitable workers foreign lands the first
volunteers and they spreading disease Despite this
drawback recruiting foreign by Leys labor
front the subject much dscussan and boasng by the
Nazi press at that time.
COERINCS this talk with Ley and with references
" for substitute materials and Inventions:
"Wind tractor; rubber. New process!
Russian plants very good. Process developed.
"Wind wheels found both big and small.
PROBLEM accumulation of solved after several
experiments without accumulators Air compressor.
Od process for rubber mot for tires but insulation
material (protectiOn for tanks:).
:. "Iinseed oil ersatz better than lnseed OIL
"Iinseed oil to be used for food purposes.
Substitute the new oil for industrial purposes
Question of tractors Of POrsche.
Construction must not be continued task the fuehrer)"
TT LOOKS if Ley had fallen for all of inventions and
i bogus oherwise) and had tried to interest
Goering wind tractors compressed arenergy
and tanks protected by old rubber concerned
world heard of them either before after Ger
many's capitulation.
Porsche who mentioned at the end of this note was
engineer who had designed the German peoples
He producing tractor and for some reason
Ley Goering wanted have its production stopped But
they agreed that Hitler had TO be consulted first.
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