BRACED MIGHTILY

Evening Star, Issue 24291, 4 September 1942, Page 2

BRACED MIGHTILY

MUST NOT EXPECT NAZI COLLAPSE RUTHLESS MOBILISATION (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (liec. 10.50 ii.m.) LONDON. Sept. Witli tin* beginning of the fourth vt ..,r of war many !i*.essments arc being inadc of the position of Germany. ‘ Tlio 'rimes ’ expresses tin- opinion that Germany is bracing herself mightily. All reports show unmistakably that the re’dino is carrying out .now and even more ruthless mobilisation of the nation’s reserves of material or moral strength, ideas, and ingenuity. “Jt wonkf be folly to interpret the reports as implying or revealing a dangerous strain on German resources. Stiam there is for all to sec, but no reason to suppose that German resources cannot ho adjusted to the new pattern of the German campaign.” The ‘ Observer ’ points out that a second Nazi revolution replaced the first. that Germany is constantly changing its governmental structure. In tho last year there was complete elimination from power in every sphere of those Conservative and Nationalist elements which the original Nazi revolution of 1933-34 was content to coordinate. There has also been final liquidation of any vestiges of the preNazi tradition in German life. The ‘ Observer’ adds that “the instrument of this second revolution is no longer an inflated Nazi party as such, hut consists of that esoteric order of the most radical and militant Nazis.” S.S. RULERS. The internal political power of tho Gorman army had to he neutralised before plans could be finalised to create a new political ruling class from S.S. This 1 was done through the development of the armed S.S. into a fullypledged second army. The armed S.S. to-day is a complete second army, comprising every kind of specialised unit, aspiring even to become a complete second wehrmacht by incorporating S.S. Luftwaffe of its own. There is little doubt that the armed S.S. since March 15, 1942, lias been officially recognised as an independent part of the German armed forces, for the main part being saved nn for the contingency of civil war. Meanwhile the political S.S. has taken control of more and more fields of German political and national life. Since last March tho S.S. has taken over the administration of the A.R.P., Labour, Munitions, Road, Transport. Sea Transport, Law, Health, Adult Education, and Postal Common ications. END OF POPULAR NAZISM. The ‘Observer’ says: “The second Nazi revolution is doubtless not yet at an end, but already it can bo said tho S.S. is the actual ruling jiower in Germany. as well as in occupied Europe. Tills development must he seen against tho background of growing resistance in occupied Europe. It marks the end of what might be called popular Nazism, but shows that Hitler and his advisers are determined in no case to capitulate before an internal popular resistance.” Tho ‘ Economist,’ discussing organised anti-Nazi underground movements in German Epurope, say they exist everywhere but in Germany itself, because the Nazi organisation of tho German State has effectively prevented the organisation , of different interests in politics and economics. “ Against all hopes of breakdown in the Nazi regime, short of military defeat of Nazi Germany. must bo set a reorganisation of the Nazi Party. Nobody can prophesy, but it is safest and wisest to assume that the regime won’t break down at the first or even a series of military reverses. Only complete military defeat is certain to break the regime. There is astonishingly little factual knowledge about the real political situation in Germany.” The ruthless mobilisation which Germany has been carrying out embraces occupied and satellite lands equally with Germany. ‘ Tho Times ’ says: “ Europe is to he ransacked from end to end for sera)). Germany needs the wealth, skilled labour, transport, and food of Europe not because of her own extremity or exhaustion —she, is far from that —hut because the changed pattern of war calls for greater still endeavours and different enterprises. Swell is the meaning of recent signs from Germany.”