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Wairarapa Times-Age THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941. A REST CURE FOR HITLER.

ASSUMING that it is true, a report transmitted yesterday, and attributed to “German quarters in Ankara” that Hitler is restin" at Berchtesgaden and that “his doctors have strongly advised a rest cure,” is by no means surprising. Whatever new schemes he may be hoping to hatch, against furkey, in the Western Mediterranean or elsewhere, Hitler is confronted by the io'iiominious and disastrous collapse of hopes he has taught the German people to entertain. Only a couple of months ago he affirmed that the armies of the Reich were on the eve ot culminating and crowning triumph in Russia.

It would be remarkable if the actual, course of events on the Eastern front, in North Africa and the Mediterranean and in the Battle of the Atlantic had not fallen with somewhat shattering effect both on Hitler and on the nation over which he has been able thus far to maintain so complete an ascendancy. At the same time it is unlikely that either the Fuehrer or the fighting forces and people of the Reich will-base any very confident or extended hopes on the initial but precarious measure of- advantage Japan has gained in the Pacific war zone.

Presumably there is a point at which even the German people would revolt against Hitler and his gang and the blood bath and sufferings of the German armies in Russia, with accompanying events, may be supposed to have brought tha point appreciably nearer. There are possible alternatives, however, to a genuine revolt by the people of the Reich. One of these is that the German military class—still regarded by many people as the real rulers of Germany—may attempt to trade, under cover of a sham revolt, on the extent to which condemnation and hatred have been focused on Hitler.

It has been suggested of late that the German generals and their associates, when they think the time has come, will overthrow Hitler as they overthrew the Kaiser in the last war, and that they will do this in the hope of organising Germany to fight again another day. At intervals stories of friction between Hitler and the German General Staff have gained currency, only to be proved, as an American correspondent observed, in discussing this question recently, to be either untrue or premature. Nothing seems more likely, however, than an ultimate clash between Hitler and the military leaders of the Reich.

The extent to which Hitler and these military leaders have hitherto shared mastery is uncertain. The Fuehrer undoubtedly has been able at times to play off one military set or faction against another. The power of the Nazi Party and the Gestapo, organised with great, though perverted skill, has been brought to bear upon the German military camarilla as well as upon the nation in general. Hitler, however, is dependent for the maintenance- of his power upon military success, and therefore upon the services of capable military leaders. Should these leaders unite against him, his fall would appear to be inevitable even with the final and decisive defeat of Germany by the Allies yet to be accomplished.

Safeguards are needed against any weakening of Allied resolution in face of a sham revolt in Germany a revolt engineered by the Prussian officer class which has led Germany into a series of wars of aggression. It has been contended justly, by German refugees amongst others, that thq Prussian military class, as well as Hitler and his immediate gang, must be destroyed if Europe and the world are to enjoy continued peace after the war has been won.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1941, Page 4

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Wairarapa Times-Age THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941. A REST CURE FOR HITLER. Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1941, Page 4

Wairarapa Times-Age THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941. A REST CURE FOR HITLER. Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1941, Page 4

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