HITLER'S GERMANY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 127, Issue 127, 9 July 1941, Page 2

HITLER'S GERMANY

UNDERGROUND OPPOSITION! BELIEVED TO CONTINUE Belief that the strong underground opposition in Germany which prevailed in the early days of Hitler' 1 ? regime still oxisted to-day Mas expressed in an interview by a former Polish journalist who left E'urope a few months before; the outbreak of war. Revolution in Russia Mas :i very unlikely possibility, he said, for the regime had been in power for ■? generation and a half. In Germany, on the other hand, there was a dis tinet possibility of trouble with the first major military reverse. No one who- knew Germany ex pected immediate trouble, or had never expected it. he emphasised.. Seme of the former leaders of German Communism Avere in Russia today and AA r ere, he believed, still in contact Avith German Communists. They Avould be the) organisers and directors of some internal disturbance in Germany at the first opportunity, difficult though that avoulcl be. As evidence of the underground opposition in Germany, he snid the paper for AA'hich he Avorked in Poland in 1937, 19381 and 1939, had i'ecciArcd many letters from unknown persons, in Germany describing the concentration camps and conditions there. The fact J hat Germany Avas now at Avar Avith Russia must, ho believed, bring to life again some of the Communist sentiments among the German people! and stimulate those Avho had remained Communists This journalist said he would be interested to see the German army having to continue its campaign during AA'inter conditions in Russia. He also considered that the Luftwaffe Avould not be able to play suc'n a decisive role as in the campaigns in France, the Balkans or the Middle East, because Russia had relatively t'eAA r important centres of industry and these Avere distributed over vast areas. Tank warfare Avould suit the Russians.