GERMAN UNREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 70, 4 October 1939, Page 3

GERMAN UNREST

GESTAPO ORGANISES "LOYAL DEMO* STK ATIONS FEEDING IN THE ARMY A Gorman citizen now in Sydney -he left Germany only four months ago—assures Smith's Weekly that Hitler is not in » position to make war. "The feeling against Hitler in Germany is much stronger than the outside world is permitted to know," he; declared.

"Hitler claims a 'following of more than 90 per cent of the nation. 11' that is so why must he keep almost 9000 people in concentration camps? Surely in so lp.rgc a population they could do little harm, if 90 per cent of the people are supporters of the Hitler regime? "And if the people love him s=o. why must he spenk behind armourplate glass? I heard h : m speak a yeav ago at Nuremberg. There were 200,000 people at the meeting, but nearly all of them were well -fed. contented storm tronocrs. They wev* not the Hungry rank and lile of thf nationTV''lev irnv':l-: bv trail , nrm is posted every 100 yard eking the lin?. Then Gestapo mei

taste all- food before it rer.ches him. Coal used in Ms train is examined for explosives. Presents for HHlcir "Weeks before Heir Hitler visits a town Gestapo men go through the place with a fine tooth comb, clearing rooms in houses along the route> r examining underground telephone 5 tunnels, and even the flowers which ; little children are going to present - to the Fuehrar, "When Hitler went to Salzburg - (Austria), soon a'fter the annexation - 50 train loads of Nazis dressed as ' Austiians preceded him to stage a 'welcome/ News reels showed 'Austrians' cheering their new leader, and the outside world did not realise it was faked. "Hunger is making the people restive. They r-re scrawling such -logans as "Hitler you promised u? bread, give us bread or you'll be dead! . . . 'Stop feeding murderers on eggs and butter taken "from little children! (This was painted on the dome of Cologne Cathedral. Discontented Army "The German Army is well fed, but it is d-scontcnted., It cannot forgot the Nazi blood bath of 1934, when many army officers were murdered . "The old type annv officer hates the Nazi Storm Trooper. T hive seen, them hit Nazis whom they have found wrecking Jewish shops, "Four months ago I was sitting in the Cafe Vienna, Frankfurt-on-Maine, when n Nazi tr,ied to make a .T'ew icave the restaurant. A German 1 officer immediately crossed to a table at which sat three other Jews and ; asked them to join him. "When Jews Ave re forced to clean the streets of Vienna, army officers told many of them to go home. Offi- - eers have called November 9, 1938, i" the day the German pogrom began, - the blackest day in German history. - They considered it lowered their horr- - our and was a blot on German cul- •» ture. e "Professional soldiers wavt io Jiei" TTerr Hi tier out because thev realise n that their j ibs will be taken by j Is vonng Isaz's if tho regime :s permifcn l:e:l to continue,''