HITLER DENOUNCED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1943, Page 4

HITLER DENOUNCED

THOUSANDS OF PAMPHLETS SPREAD THROUGH BERLIN AND DISTRICT. WORK OF UNDERGROUND ORGANISATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. Thousands of anti-Hitler pamphlets were spread through Berlin and surrounding districts last Sunday, says the Swedish newspaper “Gotterborg Tidningen.” The pamphlets read: “All energies against the destroyers of our nation. Down with Hitler!” The paper adds that the wide distribution of the pamphlets indicates that an extensive underground organisation is working.'

“FREE GERMANS” COMMITTEE FORMED IN RUSSIA. PROPOSED DEMOCRATIC REGIME. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON. July 21. A “National Committee of Free Germans” has been founded in Moscow, dedicated to the overthrow of the Hitler regime and to the formation of a new democratic Germany. The Moscow newspaper “Pravda” says the committee was formed after a conference of prisoners of war in Moscow on July 12 and 13, attended by delegates from all German prisoner of war camps in Russia. The “Pravda” contains fullpage manifesto setting out the aims of the committee. The manifesto states: “British and American troops are at the gates of Europe and the day is approaching when Germany will collapse before the impact of simultaneous blows from all sides. The war is lost already, but Germany must not die.” The manifesto adds that an Allied defeat of Germany would mean Germany’s end since nobody could conclude peace terms with the Nazi regime. Therefore it was imperative to organise a new democratic Government which would recall Germany’s troops to Germany’s pre-war borders and begin peace talks. Members of the committe include Pienk and Wilhelm Florin, former members of the German Reichstag and former leaders of the Comintern. The committee will issue a newspaper in German. Millions of leaflets, with the full text of the manifesto, have been scattered over the German lines and are also being scattered over the German hinterland.