THE NAZI WAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 8

THE NAZI WAY

ENSLAVED COUNTRIES RUTHLESSLY PLUNDERED RUMANIA'S EXPERIENCE (British Official Wireless) (British Official Wireless) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, Sept. 20. -The plundering by the Germans of, the countries they have enslaved is discussed in The Times, which notes that Rumania celebrated her adhesion to the Axis by rationing the consumption of the bread of her people on the pretext of a poor harvest. The real reason, it says, is that the Nazi war machine requires to be fed more and more at the exoense of the countries it has enslaved. From Rumania it expects corn as well as oil. and to supply corn the people, of Rumania must eo on short commons. Remarking that the procedure varied in country to country, and describing the open despoliation and enslavement of Czechoslovakia and Poland. The Times savs that in the more recently conquered Scandinavia, Low Countries, and France, where it was felt necessary for a time to present a less forbidding face, different tactics were necessary. The methods employed were those of a card-sharper rather than a highway robber, but "whatever method is emploved the result is the same. The real wealth of the subjugated peoples finds its way to Germany. What has occurred in all.! these countries is only a demonstration of the kind of 'new order' Germany seeks to establish " in ; Europe. No other people are to have any independent life or will of 'their own. All the economic resources of the Continent are to be enlisted to supply ,the German machine of conquest. "Dr Funk has 'explained that the standard of living of the conquered; peoples must., be reduced to maintain the standard or living in Germany. Blockade Drawn Tighter \]' '' "For those countries'- which so far have escaped German domination' the warning is plain. For us there.is an.equally plain lesson,.since everything subjugated peoples produce for themselves or import from abroad is at the disposition of their German masters. The blockade must be drawn tighter and tighter. The recent extension of the navicert system seems to be working effectively.; backed as it is by regulations ■ensuring that facilities at British .ports shall be'available, only to shipowners who conform to the system These regulation?, have how been strengthened by revival of the black list of ships which will be denied all facilities and refused navicerts. It will be an offeftce for any person to transact business with any shipowner named on this list. The object of the system is to shut off trade with the outside world from the whole area controlled by Germany and" Italy. Other countries from which go_ods might find their "Way without difficulty- into this area are being rationed to ensure that they shall not receive more supplies than are required for their own needs. This rationing system must inevitably give rise to problems of real difficulty, as in the case of the oil imports of Spain, concerning which an agreement has just been reached;, but these problems have, to be/faced;. We are fighting for bur lives; and must prevent all possible falling into the hands of plundering Nazism." '•!