HITLERISM OR THE GERMAN PEOPLE?
Sir-The passage you quote from Professor Sinclaire which suggests that we are fighting Hitlerism but not the German people raises a gtavely important question. Professor F. W. Foerster, who has high claims to be regarded as the greatest living German, brands
this idea as one of the " most dangerous illusions," and in his book Europe and the German Question gives chapter and verse for his opinion, He writes: "There are those who imagine an opposition between Hitlerism and the German people, On the contrary, from the democratic standpoint, Hitler is the most legitimate tuler Germany has ever had, a Kaiser who owes his crown to the most genuine popular vote. He is the spokesman of all the ideas held by the leading groups in Germany since 1850, indeed, since Goethe’s death in 1832... ." In the programme of Germany’s renewal "there is considerable opposition, but about the ultimate goal of German foreign policy there is no disagreement whatever between the people’ and the Fuehrer," This "dangerous illusion" lost us the peace, made possible the present war, and unless scotched now and for ever, will pave the way for a third war and a blood bath for our children.
E. A. W.
SMITH
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 175, 30 October 1942, Page 3
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