Evening star., 1950-06-03
Difference Between
Nazi, Red Youth Is:
They Wear Blue Now
Identical RolIies. Some
Political Stroteeems;
CuIIed Work of Devil
By Dorothy Thompson

The East Berlin show turn!
ones stomach. These moderr
mass-states must create the mass.
man. and they begin early. with
the children. First the little ones
and then the adolescents. 1t must
cut the children's ties with theil
parents, dress them in identical
uniforms, marshal them out In
rallies to awaken consciousness OF
uniform mass-power, sever all in
fluences except that Of the party
state, drill them. and eventually
turn them. a faceless herd
against other youth.
The German Hitler-kids wore
brown shirts. brown shorts OF
skirts, and stockings to the knee.
They looked cute. The German
Stain kids wear blue shirts, blue
shorts or skirts. and stockings to
the knee. They look cute. too
Strength must be accompanied by
Joy, OF course (Heil HitlerD, so a
political demonstration Is also a
picnic-tenting out. ice cream
cones, and q great lark. You can't
keep q kid from joining. because
he would be isolated from his fel-
lows, and besides (out of the side
of the MOUTH, you wanna go to
high school. don't you?" And the
parents would be isolated. too.
Maybe in a work camp. So the
devil gets them all.
Born to Die" for Reich.
1t is the work of the devil. Just
that. The year after Hitler came
10 power in Germany, I ran
across a Hitler youth camp near
Munich. There they were, Q or 20
years old. tented out in a valley in
q beautiful landscape. playing and
drilling. brown. handsome. we'll
hammered, healthy. prideful. On
the hillside opposite their tents
was picked out in white stones,
in letters 10 feet high, You Were
Born to Die for Germany" They
were having a wonderful time.
But truer words were never bla-
xoned.
Toward the close of the war
heard over short-wave radio an
account Of a youth rally in East
Prussia. A lush-voiced announcer
was drooling: Now they come
marching into the field.
wish you could see them.
Straight-limbed, brown, these IA
year -olds! The sun has come out!
1t gilds their shining blond
headsl" Then came Gen. Heinz
Guderian: "Burschen 0ads.)" In
q warm, fatherly voice ne told
them that now, in Germany's
gravest hour, they. too. must take
up arms. They threw these kids
into battle-the Volksturm. Heil
HitlerD
Hear Anti Church TRADE.
So we have it all over again.
This time they wear blue; make
q different salute; listen to a diff
ferent pied piper. But it's the
same one-the pied piper of power
to be won through the mass-man,
raised from q maSs-kid. They
stood for hours listening to a I'll
rade against the evil church, try
ing to destroy the noble Peoples
Republic-Stalin's German col
ony.
Oh, no, the Dean of Canter-
bury says, the Communists are
not against the church. No?
Really, old man? Then why are
they denouncing it to German
children, as Hitler did, as Stain
and Lenin did to Russian chill
dren? Because German mothers
want their children to be guided
by men who love God, and grow
up with human minds and con-
sciences, instead of a slogan for
o brain and heart. So they must
BE- indoctrinated to defy their
parents: mo. don't want to go
to Sunday school. No. I don't want
TO say my prayers. The preachers
are wicked. They hate the peo-
ple."
From the photographs the chill
dren in East Berlin looked like
fine. unspoiled, innocent boys and
girls. They are. So were Baldur
von Schirach's boys and girls. But
they grew up to kill and be killed:
to furnish recruits for the black
booted thuggery of the SIS, and
the unspeakable females. lustful
and vicious, who herded the
women in concentration camps
Most of them still can't see that
what they did was wrong. How
could they? The devil got them
carly