NAZI WAR AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 5

NAZI WAR AIMS

PROPAGANDA BOOKLET SEIZURE OF LOW COUNTRIES & NORTH FRANCE. DISMISSAL OF “SENTIMENTAL SCRUPLES.” By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright PARIS. November 23. The. “Paris-Soir” publishes wlial is claimed to be the first official statement of Germany’s war aims, which are contained in. a booklet ol instructions Io pro-Nazi orators and Black Guard instructors signed by .Johannes Hering, of the Nazi Propaganda Department. The aims are, first, to secure all the arable land necessary to avoid a future permanent blockade; secondly, in the same way as Germany seized Polish coal, oil and iron orc, Germany “will be able to offer thanks to Herr Hitler’s genius” and will acquire in the very near future the riches of Belgium. Holland. and the north of France; lastly, the subject races must be treated without sentimental scruples. Their cultural autonomy must be destroyed to oust the idea of revenge. The booklet adds that half a century hence the pure German race will number a hundred millions. Racial and linguistic frontiers must be re-estab-lished. but not those of 1914. Germany must hold the mouth of the Danube, Mount Lovcen, the old Serbia, and the present Rumania. It concludes: “If we do not possess the Flemish coast and hinterland it, is clear the British Fleet will paralyse our navigation.”