GERMAN PROPAGANDA

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 157, 13 March 1939, Page 1

GERMAN PROPAGANDA

ACTIVITY IN TANGANYIKA BOAST OF NAZI POWER LONDON, Jan. 2S.—Nazi propaganda here is generally inconspicuous and insidious rather than open or virulent, says the correspondent of the Daily 'Jjelegraph at Dar-es-Salaam. in largely settled Gorman areas planters and business xieopJe profit by managed currency. They realise higher prices for produce by selling to Germany, thereby tending to emphasise publicly in every way that the Germans are more efficient and possibly pay better wages, thus impressing the natives. The same tendency is emphasised in the German schools with a Nazi influence internally. Nazi organisations refrain from openly declaring that thej- are practising general propaganda, because they realise that if subversive action' were proved, their organisations would be closed'. Almost everywhere, however, German individuals often boast in social circles or within the sphere of native labour plantations and businesses that Germany will certainly return to power. Ignorant natives are thereby impressed, especially in the outlying areas. Already the Government, has taken up a. typical case „of a German labour recruiter who has been spreading such stories. The greatest influence by which Germans circulate their prophecies of. a return to power here is exercised by former native Askaris.