A GERMAN'S VIEWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 107, 8 January 1940, Page 6

A GERMAN'S VIEWS

NAZI AUTHOR SAYS GERMANY CANNOT WIN A recent book, "Nazi Germany Can't Win," throws a revealing light on many questions recurring at the present. The author, Dr William Necker, fought in the last war, and lias since held a number of important industrial and economic positions in Germany. He here makes an exhaustive study of Nazi totalitarian strategy in which he shows that the Allied forces are up against a nation whose eveiy resource has been bent towards one goal—a victorious war. To achieve this purpose every indication, every organisation, every commodity, enters the totalitarian mincing machines. "No human or social acltivity has any justification unless war," slates the Deutsche Wehr, and nothing could be plainer than that. Item by item, Dr Necker shows us the tactics by which this victorious war is to be achieved, not forgetting a scheme for a parachute invasion of Great Britain. He describes the probability of an outbreak against Poland (his book was finished in July) followed by a concentration on the Western front, and then attacks by tank and aeroplane which arc designed to deal rapid and annihilating blows. It is the frequent and anxious reassurance of the word "rapid" in all the Nazi reports which offsets, says Dr Necker. all the tremendous war-preparedness of Germany. There are serious weak nesses of transport to be overcome, and shortage oi food, and war materials; the army itself lacks mora! unity which no amount of drilling ami dosage with ideology will remedy. Jhe book is nightmarish because (Continued at loot of next colu.un;