TERROR IN ALSACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1942, Page 5

TERROR IN ALSACE

NAZI GAULEITER’S THREAT.

Alsatians are being brutally told that they are Germans, and behind the “appeal” to Alsatian girls to bear children for the Reich is a very tenible threat. Gauleiter Wagner told Alsatians: “France, which was one of our greatest enemies, is today hors de combat. Alsace belongs definitely to victorious Reich. She is purely German and knows that she will never be abandoned or betrayed by Germany.” He added: “Those who still believe that the Reich can succumb under the blows of the enemies of the interior and exterior are mad. There is no room for them among us. In this Alsace which is ours we only wish to have as companions men and women who know what they want, for whom their duty is still clear, and who are ready to fulfil it. If then there are still some Alsatians who at heart are French we tell them frankly, your presence among us will not be tolerated and we will drive you out of Asace.” According to the “Strasburger Neueste Nachrichten” a young Alsatian, Paul Hornbeck, of Benfeld, was condemned to death on May 27 by the Special Court of Strasbourg. The comment of the well-known Alsatian paper on this condemnation is significant for those who read between the lines. It deplores “the spirit of these young men which has been corrupted by the liberal ideas of French democracy.”