The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-11

provide an excellent object lesson of what must be done to keep his tory from repeating.
 There are apparently some U. s. Army General Staff officers who re- gard the German General Staff as a somewhat overrated organization, and they view with skepticism the idea that the German General Staff is a big super-secret society like the Black Dragon of Japan. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery have both sounded off emphatically on the need for abolishing the German General Staff, however, and that makes this world Public Enemy Number One worth careful scrutiny. STAFF EVADED DEATH
 SENTENCE
 The German General Staff was officially abolished by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, just as it's abolition has been now de- creed by the Roosevelt Churchill Stalin declaration of Yalta. Accord ing to the Crowley report, the Ger man General Staff evaded its first death sentence by merely moving into national archives building - ito write history of the war"
 Actually, what they did was make an analysis of why they lost the war. What they found was that there was no defect in the German war machine, but serious defects in the war economy, so they went to work on that.
 First the German General Staff went underground. It moved inno- gently into the Institute of Tech nology at Berlin -Charlottenburg This was famous school with good engineering and economics facul- ties. Officers selected for General Staff work started taking courses to learn something about raw mater ials, finance, and the use of man. power. Then they took years course in plant management, work ing in the factories.
 There was deliberate plan to bring industry and government closer and it went so far as the ar- rangement of actual marriages be- tween families of German indus trilists and the Junkers class, the aristocrats with independent in comes from landed estates - the class from which army officers and government officials were largely drawn in the old Germany.
 Some U. s. economists believe that the German General Staff even went so far as to plan Ger man imitation to deliberately bank rupt the country, end separations payment, and get cheap control of German industry and commerce. At any rate, in 1923 British Bri7adier- General John H. Morgan was able to report from Berlin that Germany was even then better prepared for war than she was in 1914. Nobody paid any attention.
 With the negotiation of the Dawes and Young plans, Germany got international credit for her re- mobilization and it is ironical to note that U. s. loans helped finance the construction of German highways, railroads and steelworks.
 BUILT STOCKPILES
 BY BARTER
 The world depression of 1929 may have changed the German General Staff plan somewhat, but did not block it. The barter system of for elgn trade was devised to export products the Germans did not need for war and to build up gold re- serves and stockpiles of materials they did need.
 By 1883 the economies section of the German General Staff was able to come out in the open from the underground as the War Economies Staff. Five years later the Wehr- macht'S Oberkommando = the top joint chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy and Airforces came into being, with graduates of the Institute of Technology holding important posi- tions in all key government agen- cies. All the general staff then need ed to achieve it's objectives was a Hitler.