BRITAIN AND GERMANY

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 5

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

Sir,-One wonders why you published the letter signed "Atlantic Pact," but as you have seen fit to print that letter I hope you will give similar publicity to this reply. Hitler habitually uttered falsehoods in an authoritative’ manner (as if they were profound truths) and your correspondent imitates him in this, as well as in his opinions. After telling us that Hitler predicted that "Britain .would one day be fighting alongside Germany against Bolshevism," he continues, "and as Hitler was right about this, he could have been right about some other things." The fact is that Hitler was about as right in that prediction as he usually was about everything, because as far as I am aware Britain is not fighting alongside Germany against Bolshevism, never has done so, and until events prove otherwise I see no reason to suppose that she ever will do so, What your correspondent has succeeded in doing is to demonstrate the sort of reasoning customary amongst Germans generally and Nazis in particular, thus establishing that he is living in the wrong /coun‘try and at the wrong time. He goes on to state that Hitler never wanted to fight England. Hitler never wanted to fight Austria, either, or Czechoslovakia, or Poland. He merely wished to take them over and bleed them to death without a fight. No doubt your correspondent would have been delighted if Hitler had fulfilled his ambition to take over the British Empire along with the rest of the world, since he is such an admirer of that merciless monster, Perhaps the, Fuhrer was only kidding when he launched hig ferocious blitz on Britain. Were there not thousands of innocent British women and children killed or maimed prior to the Moline and Eder dams being bombed? To cite that as an example of British wrongdoing. and yet to ignore Hitler’s bloedthirsty, pitiless extermination of six million Jewish men, women and children; to pretend to deplore atheism and. yet condone Hitler’s systematic and unholy persecution of religious institutions is evidence of your correspondent’s warped outlook.

H.

WOOLF

(Wellington).

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-Ed.)