TERROR WILL END

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3287, 12 July 1943, Page 3

TERROR WILL END

OVERTHROW OF HITLER MOSCOW BROADCAST APPEAL TO GERMAN WOMEN Thus spoke Martha Arendsee, a member of the former German Reichstag, in a recent, broadcast, from Moscow to the women of Germany : — German women! Hitler told you : “In this war there will be only survivors or destroyed." You are given your choice. Which isj it to be? At Stalingrad 240,000 of your husbands, fathers, sons and brothers were destroyed because Hitler desired it. But. 01,000 survivors, with. 24 generals, obeyed not Hitler’s order but their own better judgment. They surrendered. They will return Io their families when the war is over—when Hitler is no longer there. German women ! The dead of Stalingrad .cannot speak to you. P.st the survivors count, on a happy reunion with their families when Hitler has been overthrown. They call to you: “Stay, alive! Keep well for a better future! Do as we did! Don't obey Hitler ', Don't bring death and ruin on yourselves • German women! I know you ask 'time and again: “What are we to do to save ourselves? The Nazis force us to work until we drop, take our . food ration cards away if we don’t want, to work for the war, torture us, throw us into concentration camps. Women are executed every day. Why, only on January 30 Hitler threatened that all who did not obey him would be destroyed.” Yes, but listen! Hitler 1 and the Nazi gang can continue their cruel work of destruction against our German nation only as long as they are opposed by sporadic resistance. When

all those who want peace unite in common resistance, then Hitler’s power over you will come to an end, When those who have survived unitedly refuse to enter the arms factories or to go to the front, when the soldiers at the front lay down their I arms as one man and give themselves up, or with their arms return to the fatherland to save you from destruction by Hitler, then the war, and the terror, will end. The advance of the Red Army cannot be stemmed. Have no illusions. With Hitler there can be no peace. The danger that Germany will become a theatre of war increases daily. British and American troops stand ready. The air raids will intensify, and so will the catastrophic situation into which f Hitler has, led the German nation. 1