A Different Germany

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1942, Page 2

A Different Germany

The Germany of to-day is a vastly different institution from the Germany of 1918. Constitutional forms were retained in the Kaiser s Reich, even though effective government passed steadily into the hands of the High Command. Political agitation was still possible, even though many opponents of the regime spent periods of the war in jail. The State apparatus rested hardly on the shoulders of the people; but it never possessed the scientific grip of a yoke such as the Gestapo has contrived. Revolution in these circumstances becomes a most desperate and dangerous act. All its channels are scrutinised and blocked; for unlike the Kaiser's henchmen Hitler's thugs were once engaged in this trade themselves. Nor should we suppose that any considerable part of the German people have yet begun to think of the revoluionary escape from their plight. They will not do so till the German war machine has lost most of its impetus. —

Evening Standard, London.