SUBJECT RACES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 9

SUBJECT RACES

NAZI PAPER’S CANTING HYPOCRISY S FACTS AND PROFESSIONS »' IN CONTRAST. 3 j q — j VILE TREATMENT OF POLES. • (British Official Wireless, i I RUGBY, January 5. I A statement that was made by the , Nazi newspaper, "Deutsche Allgei meine Zeitung," on December 29 looks J almost as if it must have been inspired lby the spirit of those notorious "New ; Year resolutions" with which people ’ of weak will are supposed to lull their | conscience at the end of the old year l and which influence their condt.ct foi j rarely more than a few days in the new. The newspaper wrote: "The Nai tional Socialist ideas of race respect I for other nations make Germany parI ticularly well fitted for the task of colonial administration." Germany’s record of colonial administration before the Nazis came to power had some aspects whch were | admired by the experts of other col- ; onial Powers, but they were not pari ticularly those associated with respect I for native races. However, the Nazi i ascendancy has destroyed whatever i chance there was of better elements ■ among the German colonial enthusiasts i prevailing, and the newspaper appears to have come perilously near to an affront to the Fuehrer himself in its neglect of certain well-known passages in "Mein Kampf." It shows neglect also of some more up-to-date manifest aliens of the Nazi contempt for other races generally and for backward peoples in colonial territories—

classed comprehensively as "negroes" -—in particular. Only a month earlier, on November 22, no less a person that Reichminister Frank, addressing the congress of the Academy of German Law in Munich, said: "It is necessary to think not only of the national State but also of world empire. The position of the Poles or negroes in the colonics must be considered under criminal law from the point of view of the German people." The administration of Poland is, thanks to the continued resistance of Britain to the Nazi war machine, the only example of Nazi colonial administration the world has seen or is ever likely to see, It provides a remarkable illustration of what the newspaper calls the Nazi respect for other nations. Over Christmas and the New Year the Poles within the "general Government" were allowed to travel on the railways only with special permits, but Germans could travel without. In the Christmas number of the ■’Ostdeulscher" there was a special appeal to Germans to avoid associating privately with Poles. According to a decree which was issued before Christmas. wheat bread and various tine grades of confectionery may not be sold to Poles in Lodz and Pozna. Those are not only one or two recent examples of humiliations and servitudes heaped upon the Polish population by the Nazi conquerors. .As for coloured races in other parts of the world, the Nazi view was recently given by the "Muenchner Neuste Nachrichtan,” which quoted with approval the writer Gerhard Nebel The statement said: "Their lac!; of any lasting inner development and | renovation has made the negro fun- i damenlally dependent on others. The! negro is, so to speak, a slave by na-1 lure."