Nazis Crushed

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 98, 16 August 1945, Page 5

Nazis Crushed

THREAT TO WORLD REMOVED NO HISTORIC PARALLEL " At no time in the checkered history of humanity has there been anything to parallel the abrupt rise arid fall of Naziism. The threat to Europe by Atilla was by company son but a minor campaign; thie coil 4 quest of India by Mahmud of Ghaznl but a flash in the pan; and the subjugation of China by Ghengis Khan, a comparatively peaceful affair. Even the land-hunger of Alexander the Great ? who conquered half the then-known world when little more than 30 years old j bears small rer lationship to the mighty scale for world conquest envisaged by the man called Hitler. It has taken just 20 years to wit* ness the rise and downfall of the national doctrine known as ism s the ill-gotten braiii child of an exrpape rbange r obsessed with the* ideals of a so-called National Socialism which could be applied to the* whole world. Hitler's plans f with characteristic thoroughness were well and trulyr laid wh'en he 'dared' the greatei? 1 powers, and the League of Nat yaps by his march into the Sarr by hia annexation of of Aus-; tria f of and finally of his invasion of Poland. Smarting still undter the injuries and tices of Versailles ? the well-preparedl German armies' had flooded the con—' iinerit in two short years. Only the* islands of Sweden, Switzerland andl Spain out against the blade background of the Swastika. , The incredable population of twe* hundred millions- were held firmly;, in maw of the Nazi monster , against whom it was feared nothing! could stand. 4 Twenty millions became slave workers for German task, masters; tens of thousands perishedk in concentration camps. Four weary* years were to elapse before their:, liberation. , v Thie battle of the Atlantic .Vall 1 ■ was the beginning of the end;, HitrO ler's fortress citadel began to* crumble as surely as all similar edi-n fices which have been built upo»L' bestiality and coprupition. Naziism and its founder 'have* - faded into oblivion. , ." '