MUST BE FOUND

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3272, 4 June 1943, Page 3

MUST BE FOUND

NAZI POPULATION SCHEME BRITISH BIRTH RATE FALLS MENACE OF “MASTER RACE” “The Nazi population schemes must be faced realistically,” said Captain E. P. Aderman, in a forthright address to members of the Taranaki Women’s Club in New Plymouth recently. Captain Aderman spoke of the serious consequences that would arise if the present rapid decline in the birth-rate of the British race continued, and the Nazi scheme for increasing their race was successfully carried out. “In the event of a further conflict, should the Axis powers be defeated in the present struggle, vastly superior numbers in personnel could succeed in turning the fortunes of victory against us,” declared Captain Aderman. “The Nazi population aim is 250,000,000 within a generation, and this must be realised if the ‘Master Race’ theory is to be carried out, and world destinies determined.

- “The strength of this objective is best estimated by contrast with Great Britain in the light of population trends as shown in the Beveridge Report. In 1901 there was one aged pensioner to every 17 of the whole population. In 1931 the proportion was one in 10; in 1961, following the present rate of birth decline and not including any adverse reactions which the present war creates, the ratio will be one in six. On the other' hand, the continuous decline of child population, if not arrested, will, after 1971, bring about a rapid diminution of the whole population. Difficult to Remedy In 1901 there were more than five children for every person of pensionable age (men 65 years, women 60), but in 1971 children will be outnumbered by possible pensioners. Then Great Britain will be a race of predominantly elderly people. But worse still, it will then be- difficult to remedy the evil. Race extinction will stare grandchildren in the face. At the present rate of decline the British Isles will in 100 years have a population of about 5,000,000

“This decline in itself gives cause for grave anxiety, but the increase planned by the Nazis even greater anxiety. Particularly when Japan, adjacent to us, has already 207,000,000 in her hands, including those in occupied territories. What prospects have Australia and New Zealand to

I build up their populations through immigration after the war in order to face the Japanese menace of the future, in the light of this decline on one hand, and increase on the other?” Captain Aderman asked. “The Nazi birth policy is based upon three fundamental principles: (1) ‘The systematic elevation of man and the subordination of the woman to the sole function of bearing the maximum number of children.’ Ten is the number suggested for a healthy woman. (2) ‘The undermining of morals, destruction of the family unit and abolition of the Christian ideal of monogamy, and the sacrament of marriage.’ (3) ‘By denationalising non-Germanic peoples’.”

The speaker then went on to tell how the Nazis proposed to achieve their objective, by mating women of all races with Germans, and eliminating by starvation and other means children of other extraction. Also, all women, whether married or not, were to be granted the right of motherhood. Birth control of any kind was to be regarded as a serious offence against the State. Males of other races were to be exterminated.

“A new threat is arising through this carefully prepared objective of the Nazis,” continued Captain Aderman, “aggravated as it is by the immense hordes in the hands of Japan, a threat which must be faced squarely and soberly, and met with a direct frontal attack. Foresighted and skilled politicians are needed, but more than that, a country alive to the threat. Otherwise the noble and unselfish sacrifices of husbands, sons and daughters), brothers and sisters, in this crucial struggle will amount to no more than a mere delaying action,” he concluded.