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We Shall Drag Down World
In Flames'-Hitler's Threat of
1932: Bloody Atrocities Follow
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t Lidice, Kiev, Dresden
Among Towns Where
Nazi Infamy Flamed
By RICHARD TOMPKINS
AP Features Writer
i NEW YORK---We maj be de
stroyed, but if; we are, we shall
drag a world With us a world
inflames!' " :;...
So spoke Adolf Hitter in 1932
to his closest associates, accord
ing to Dr. Herman Rauschrling,
former president of the Danzig
senate and an intimate of Hitler
until he broke! with the nazis In
1935. M 'VM
."Our conversation then dealt
with details of a future gas and
bacterial war," Rauschning writes
in prefacing the Hitler quotation.
And later, as the terror of de
feat gripped Hitler, the Berlin ra
dlo said: j
"Before the peril can reach the
heart of our beloved country, we
will turn this continent into a
maelstrom of
only one cry is:
COURAGE INSPIRES
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NIIMOEUIR, a German lu
theran pastor, preferred
prison to Nazism. His courage
inspired world sermons.
destruction where
heard the cry for
blood . All, now is at stake.
Was this an actual threat in an
effort to soften the allies,iwith
the hope of forcing a negotiated
peace? Here are some of the deeds
that were already done:
LIDICE: On June 15, 1942, the
Czecho-Slovak village was erased
by the gestapo. All males over 17
a pproximately 200 were
killed; all women about 200
were sent to concentration camps;
all children-fa bout 120 .were
placed in so-called reform schools
in Germany. Every house was
burned.
The nazi explanation was that
arms were stored in the village;
an illegal radio station operated
- there; that the inhabitants pro
vided aid to those who made an
attack oh , the nazi "protector"
Heydrich. No trial was held.
DISTOMO, THE GREEK LID1
ICE: On June 10, ,1944, the nazis
slaughtered more than 1,000 res
idents. Including babies in arms,
then burned the village.
V The population was herded into
the village square, facing machine
guns. The nazis opened fire and
when all had fallen the troopers
went about pistolling those still
alive and stamping the life from
babies whom parents sought to
protect with their own.bodies. The
Bed Cross, four days after the
massacre, found only a handful of
survivors ljk fear - crazed chil
dren roaming the woods. Thus the
nazis revenged the deaths of 30
German soldiers in a battle with
Greek resistance groups near the
village. ' .
ORADOUR - SUR - GLANE,
Trench Lidice by mistake!
Again on June 10, 1944, Ger
man SS troops slaughtered all but
eight of 800 inhabitants. Women
rand children were, driven into a
church and locked in with a case
i of explosives. An hour later the
charge went offi -
. The village was destroyed, the
" nazis said, because its natives had
' firearms dump. Later a German
official stated the village was de
stroyed "in error." The atrocity
" was intended for Ora-dour-sur-Vayres,
a larger place, 17 miles
away, where the Maquis had
clashed with German, troops.
! ,
y KIEV: More than 195,000 Soviet
. . citizens were "tortured, shot or
poisoned in murder vans" during
the occupation of Kiev, a commis
sion investigating destruction of
the ancient city reported on Feb.
. 28, 1944.
. BORKI, on the Warsaw-Minsk
railroad: All the Inhabitants of
the village were executed and the
Village burned for the derailment
of a train on another line, the Pol
ish Telegraph Agency said - on
March 18, 1944.
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' OSWIECIM: The Polish Minis
try of Information reported
March 21 that more than 500,000,
mostly Jews, had ' been put to
death at a concentration' camp at
Oswiecim, southwest of Krakow.
Three crematories had been erect
ed inside the camp to dispose of
10,000 bodies a day.
: ROVNO: More than 102,000 d-
"Vilians and prisoners of war. were
murdered in the Rovno region
of pre-war Poland, a soviet ex
traordinary commission for in-
Vestigation of German atrocities
charged on May 7. Many were
forced to dig their own graves.
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.' BUDAPEST: The Hungarian
government asserts that 1000 Jews
" . will be condemned to death every
time the allies raid Budapest, ra
dio France in Algiers said ; on
May 10. -:
Secretary of State Hull declared
I July 14 that the number of mas
. sacred Jews in Hungary was al
ready great and "the entire Jew
ish community in Hungary which
numbered nearly 1,000,000 was
threatened with extermination.'
DRESDEN: Forty-seven British
f and allied air officers were shot
to death after a mass escape two
', months ago from a prison camp
. near Dresden, Foreign Secretary
i'Anthony Eden disclosed on May
' 19- . :
Germany Many
Times Has Been
Aggressor in War
(AP rMturcs) . '
Germany's invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939, wasn't her first
aggression against a neighbor, nor
was her attack on Trance and
Russia in August, 1941, nor her
attack on France in 1870.
German invasions, however,
have many times been the other
way round; Caesar's legions, Gus-
tavus "Adolphus's armies and Na
poleon's artillery have plowed up
her soil.
Since wild, fierce Teuton! in the
second icentury BC invaded Italy,
Germany has often deliberately
chosen the sword in preference
to the pen, and the savage sweep
of Attila and his hordes westward
in the fifth century AD provided
the name by which Germans have
been many times denounced: Hun.
Lombard? was invaded by Ger
many's Otto in 951, Henry II in
1046, Frederick Barbarossa in
1154, Frederick the Great struck
the first blow in the Seven Years'
war. with the invasion of Saxony
in 1758.
.Von Bismarck, warrior - chan
cellor, overwhelmed Denmark In
1864, Austria in 1866 and France
in 1870-1871.
Treisui7Ccnsus of
Investments Abroad
Proves an Advantage
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A US Treasury census of what
Americans own abroad proved of
unexpected Itelpjiar the Allies
struck into j&xis-held territory.
The information supplied by , in
vestors, for instance, enabled the
American Military! Government
to know wbre j public utilities
and manufacturing plants are; lo
cated and to prepare to repair
them. ;--. 1 1 i- r;.:-
Peace
Plans
At Hand for
Qose Study
(AP Features)
The men who determine
rops's pattern for tomorrow have
at hand today the readymade
blueprints of the many peace ro-
feu-
grams evolved by
statesmen during
years-! - .," ij -I t
The number of
das, declarations i and plans that
i it. j .til. j a;
croppea up m ui auiea nauons
was legion, but the ones outlined
below: seemed to receive the wid
the long war
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outlines, agen-
est attention! Some evoked
ad-
verse criticism, r P . I; !
une of tne ixrsv and most i au
thoritative was the Atlantic char'
ter drawn upj by President Roose
velt and Prune Minister Church
ill In 1941 and later backed bf the
United Nations; It called fori the
cooperation of all peoples to pre
serve; peace, the
right of small
nations to freedom from aggres
sion and governments of their own
choice, the abandonment of force,
the access to all the raw materials.
Other plana supported the prin
cipie or. cooperation, auierea on
methods.' j ' f ;- M " s ' j
The formation of a four-power
organization 1 1 to 'keep the peace
was proposed November 1, J943,
in Moscow 'at the conference of
the United States' Great Britain,
Russia and Chiha, i
Vice President Wallace Urged
forcible and permanent disarma
ment of aggressors. I ' K
Wendell Willkie called for or
deny . abolition of t colonial sys
tems and the abolition of injus
tice. 1 -Si , - I' 1 H
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver asked at world insutution to
keep peace,! urged a coolihg-off
period after the armistice to pre
vent unjust peace terms.
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ENEMY'S LEADER
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ROMMEL wen a place in hii- :
tory as the foe's most brilliant r
tacticianii Not a heel-popping.
Junker, he came up hard way.
Germany's Debt 7ent
To Total Estimated at
Over 50 Billion Dollars
AP Features
The Reparations commission af
ter World War I fixed Germany's
debt to the allied nations at 122,-
OOO.OOO.OOOgoId marks (about $52,-
000,000,000 ; at normal exchange
rates). At the end of five years
(1924) when the Dawes plan for
stabilizing ;Germanya currency
went into effect the Reich bad
paid 8,405,000,000 i marks in gold
and products.
The Young Plan in 1929 ad
justed ! the debt into . 59 annual
payments, running! to 1899, and
totalling 36,998,000,000 marks.
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Keep the Axis trio together! Force the Japanese (nob
to join their companions! The only way is to pull to'
gether harder than ever ... to keep our brave boy
supplied for Victory! Comply with every wartime
regulation cheerfully! and buy War Bonds with ft
engeance!
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libferatei peoples of Europe, too. long burdened' j
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brought into being the Victory which now thrills i
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which" conceived and executed the strategy of
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Nations who found no sacrifice too great for the
final defeat of Nazism.' For! 44 We Americans"
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