1918

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 4

1918

FIGURES OF FATE FOR NAZI GERMANY SPOKEN OPENLY BY HIGH OFFICIALS. REAL FEARS AND FANTASTIC.. HOPES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyr ght) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. In view of the Italian political change, Germany is staking her entire war effort on the powers of the Wehrmacht (Army), says the “Brusseler Zeitung,” the German-language newspaper published in Brussels. “We do not know what the next 48 hours will bring, but we feel we must now rely completely on our own power. We are staking our hopes on the powers concentrated within the boundaries of Germany and its own military force. “When high German officials begin to speak openly about 1918, you can be sure that Hitler’s ‘unshakeable’ Third Reich has had a shock; yet that is what is happening in Berlin,” reports the “Daily Express” Stockheim correspondent. “The four sinister figures—l9lB—- — for the whole nation the country’s collapse in the last war. ’ A leading Nazi professor, Johan von Leers, has developed the 1918 theme'in an article published in the “Angriff.” "Doubtless hard times have come,” he says. “We have no reason to hush up cur reverses. But we might remind the British of their own reverses. Do the British believe we are not as tough as they? Germany is once again exposed to the same tests as in 1918, but the Jews who were responsible for the overthrow of Germany in the last war now have no say. Now we shall see how great are Germany’s powers of resistance.”

Leers cites four developments of policy he believed might save Germany: (1) A shortage of supplies in Russia. (2) Communism in Britain and America. (3) American internal troubles as a result of next year’s Presidential elections. (4) A stab in the back for the Allies from Japan. Leers concludes grimly: “Whatever it costs, we must not give up.”