NAZI AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 4

NAZI AIMS

SIGNIFICANCE OF CAPTURED DOCUMENT EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL REPRESSION. TASK FOR STATE POLICE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 25. In the course of the Libyan campaign in March of this year, a secret German document was captured. A brief account of its contents was announced from Cairo at the time, but it is only since the document has been carefully studied in London that its full significance has been revealed. It was captured from the headquarters of No. 2 Troop of the .75 th Artillery Regiment, which went to Libya as part of the Fifth Light Division. That division was subsequently converted into the 21st Panzer Division. The document, which is marked “Secret,” states that the Greater German Reich in its final form will not exclusively embrace countries which are well disposed to the Reich, and therefore it is necessary to maintain State police troops outside as well as inside the present core of the Reich, capable on any and every occasion of representing and asserting the internal authority of the Reich. This task can only be fulfilled by a State police with men in its ranks of the best German blood, who unconditionally identify themselves with the philosophy of life which is fundamental to the Greater German Reich. Only contingents composed of such men will resist, in critical times, disruptive influences. Such a contingent will feel pride in its integrity and will, therefore, never fraternise with the proletariat and with that underworld which undermines the fundamental idea. The document also outlines the duties of such a police force and the necessity for it in times of interior crisis. From now on, it says, the task assigned to the armed forces will be solely and exclusively action against the exterior enemies of the Reich.