luSPAY, OCTOBER 19, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory)
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
erms Given To Germany Not
ooHarsh, lo Keep Her In Peace
j. JOHN C A HILL
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competent observers any
rate Adolf Hitler himself as
than the deus ex machina.
He is looked upon simply as the
symbol and the lever by which the
German high command brought
this war into being, to avenge the
defeat of 1918, complete the con
quest of France that 1870 failed to
do; in short, to launch another try
at world domination.
Even before Hitler gave the
order for the SeDtemhpr 1 19SQ
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attack upon Poland which pre
cipitated the present conflict, the
German War College in Unter den
Linden in Berlin had drafted com
plete plans for the steps to be
taken in event of defeat.
These included revival of the
myth that disaster came not be
cause of military inefficiency but
solely because of conditions at
home, the same trick that worked
so well after the last war; a long
period of secret rearmament while
the world was lulled into belief
that this time Germany was a re
formed character.
Germany's Military System
All of this implied the necessary
maintenance of the German offi
cers' staff corps as an undamaged
entity. The German military sys
tem is founded upon the conviction
that if disciplined, schooled and
capable officers are at hand, an
army can be created out of the res
ervoir of man-power inherent in
any population, either victorious or
in defeat.
Against this thesis Soviet Rus
sie, whose war losses in military
and civilian man-power already ex
ceed 12,000,000 men, women and
children, has an eloquent and grim
ly realistic argument.
It is simply the wholesale exe
cution of the entire Prussian staff
corps the elimination of Ger
many's chief means of waging war
by a blood purge intended to en
compass every last ranking officer
in the army.
The terrific upsurge of Russian
military and diplomatic might
which followed the long series of
Soviet successes beginning with de
feat of the German Sixth Army at
Stalingrad will make this extreme
and gruesome solution of the prob
lem a difficult one to wave aside.
Together with the mass execu
tions, the Russians have a corollary
proposal, namely that the German
army itself not only be disarmed
but put to work for years to come
in rebuilding he Europe that has
been shattered by Nazi aggression.
Both these suggestions and they
may prove to be more than mere
proposals when Premier Marshal
Josef Stalin and his victorious
army leaders sit at the council
table presumably would strip Ger
many of any war-making ability
for generations to come.
But by the same token, they
would infuse the German people
themselves with the one evil virus
the democratic world is attempt
ing to outlaw revenge, the brutal,
compelling cause of most of his
tory's wars.
In accordance with plans already
drawn up by the European advis
ory council, Germany is to be split
indefinitely into three separate
areas, one patrolled and ruled by
Americans, one by British and one
by the Russians, with central head
quarters in Berlin under command
and supervision of Gen. Pwight
D. Eisenhower.
For obvious reasons, the Poles,
the Czechs, the Norwegians, Dutfh,
Belgians and French will be assign-
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Pacific. Pfc. Marshall S. Cole, son
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veteran infantry regiment, and is
learning all the tricks on jungle
warfare.
Before his induction, he was em
ployed at the American Enka Cor
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the army uniform, he was sent to
Camp Homze, Texas, for basic
training. He has been overseas
six months, and has been in New
Caledonia and Guadalcanal besides
his prsent station.
After the daily routine, Pfc.
Cole returns to his roomy tent, and
relaxes by playing cards or writing
letters. His uncle is also serving
in the Pacific as a radio operator
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ed to their own homelands only,
for the post-war military adminis
tration of Europe is determined to
do all in its power to prevent the
new blood-bath that the Germans
have so well earned by their sadis
tic cruelty and sanguinary insults
to the rigrhts of man.
r'irnf Tasks Clear Cut
The Americans, British and Rus
sians, representing occupational
troops oh refully chosen as upstand
ing examples of the democratic sys
tem who it is hoped by their own
personalities and behavior may go
far in undoing the mis-education
of the Nazi leader system, will have
certain well defined tasks.
The tusk will be to restore and
maintain order, track down the
criminal elements responsible for
the war, distribute food and medi
cine to the lit'edy and prove to Eu
rope that tncy have come less as
conquerors than as liberators.
Second task will be to establish
within the shortest possible space
of time a free and independent
government in Austria, for com
plete rehabilitation of Hitler's na
tive country was the principal item
on the njrenda at Teheran.
Third task will be to enforce the
stipulations of peace to be imposed
upon flermany in her unconditional
surrender.
Penalties Germany Fears
These are certain to be wide
spread and manifold. According to
information which appears to be
reliable, here are the main tributes
that Germany will have to pay for
her willingness to follow Hitler and
the skiff college into war:
1 Reparations for all damage
done by bombing, shelling and pil
lage, on a scale within the nation's
ability to pay but large enough to
discourapre future aggression.
2 Return to France of Alsace
and Lorraine and to Bclimim of
Kupen and Malmedy.
3. Complete demilitarization, with
Allied supervisory councils in con
trol of all German heavy industry
and aire raft manufacture for an
indeterminate, perhaps permanent
period, to insure that neither again
are diverted to preparation for war.
4 Establishment of new boun
daries without too much regard for
the "theological" questions which
Hitler invoked in the Sudctenland
and Austria.
Most of East Prussia probably
will po to Pidand as recompense
for her losses and those of the pop
ulation who are "real Germans"
will be shifted to the west.
f Dest ruction t-of Nazism, from
the first rude manuscript of Mein
Kampf written by Rudolph Hess at
Hitler's dictation down to the last
brown uniform in the closets of
headquarters in Munich.
The terms are not too harsh.
They will give Germany a chance
to live again in peace and harmony
with her neighbors. But it will also
be the last chance.
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