HITLERISM AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
Sir,-Your correspondents Audax II, and N.E.W. (for short) both emphasise that Stalin has been careful to distinguish between Hitlerism and the German people, but if I were a German I would not rely too much on that. Stalin is above all a superlative tactician, his sole and very proper aim the good of his own people. To see something of his methods one rfeed only recall how in 1939 he broke his pact with France, entered into a pact with Hitler, ruthlessly invaded Poland and the Baltic republics, and above all how he deliberately botched his campaign against Finland just to hide his real strength from his new ally. Naturally such a man is not going to present any propagandist ammunition to the enemy, but neither is he the man to allow a new German menace to overshadow the next generation. Given victory, and with or without our approval, it is utterly certain that there will be no half-measures this time; and the genteel protests of those I have called. our ladylike humanitarians will not persuade us to declare war on Russia in defence of Germany.
XXX
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 186, 15 January 1943, Page 3
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