"CRIMINOCRACY"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 53, 15 May 1942, Page 2

"CRIMINOCRACY"

History has no parallel for the situation existing in Germany wherein the friends, advisers, and followers of Hitler and the highest dignitaries, in the Third Reich to-day are many of them persons whose deviation from moral: rectitude wouUi in other circumstances banish them from th.e society cf their fellowmen.

Here are a few examples: Kaufmann, the Reichsstatthaltcr and Gauleiter of Hamburg, is; an exthief; Terboven, Gauleiter of Norway, is a libertine, who seduced the schoolgirl daughter of a friend of his; Adolf Wagner, Bavaria's Minister of the Interior, is an intemperate drinker and still goes about with an unextracted bullet in his head, a legacy from the last war: [ieydrieh has been guiiity of corruption of office; Goering's addiction to drugs is- as notorious as the assassinations instigated' or carried, out by Killinger, the German Minister to Rumania; Rochm Hemes and many others -were sexual perverts. The Governor of Poland, Frank, and the iil-famed Dr WencUer were knavish lawyers, whoso practices frequently attracted the unfavourable notice of the, Law Society. Frank was employed by his father, who was finally expcMed from the Bar for embezzling trust funds. Alvensleben, now a highly placed official in Poland, the decadent scion of a Piussian army family, had an evil reputation in Munich for counterfeiting: Wilhclni Xube had to- resign his post of Oborpraosident of Brandenburg for embezzlement: Henrich '".oh.se, one of the new ga'uieiiers in the so-eal.Vd "Ostland.'' lias committed fraud . . . Nor must we forget that Horst Wcssel, who gave his name to Nazi Germany's national anthem, was a pander.