GERMANY WAS REARMED

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• Publication Date: January 16, 1955
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0.1111 JAN 16 1955
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Germany Was Rearmed
C PYWATA114 LIPIN
PRPS DtNT Eisenhower
ffers a ? magic and soothing
ormula., lie wants to build
ip anew a great German
ary force?but he says he
an do. -it so as, to .avoid the
langer of a revivaj of German inili-
arism." He. says the new German
tiny he prbpuseS will be a boon,to
'peace, and freedom.
The words'''-ai.e alluring, bitt they
ren't new. The 'formula is enticing,
nit it was 'tried once before: And
t led straight to? the holocaust-
vhich was ,World War II.
Consider the story of German re-
_ .
rmament between two wars. It will
.ound familiar and orninouS. For it
- a twice-told tale.
After Worlcf?War I German mili-
ary rniht seeirdimPekessly shah
ered. The Vs,sales Treaty pro-
nbited pretliA?tio. . of airplanes,
anks and subinrines. The dread ?
.ermanr'General 8taff, directing
euhanism offthe most powerful
awe in Enropq, was outlawed. -
--,ermany was -allowed only a sup-
msedly puri-S.;: 'army of 100,000'
It was not wi1 March 16, 1935,
hat Adolf Hitler formally le-
ounced the, Versailles limitatiOns
It German-rearmament But less
han tiviT And a ha f years later, in ,
ovemlier. 1'937, Hitler gathered French -Men and ir.- omen demonstrating .oufside the Assein-
iis military leaders, in the Reich bly against ratification of the !Pans Pact to create a new German
liancellery 'and told them:: . ; Wehrmacht as part of NATO:
"The rearming of the army, the ini
rt.., ' -a- -
ILI I al eel; eit fil it was de- ,perfected techniques for speedy as-
iavy,, and the an force, as well as! f i . { a Vast!
, ezt i( , , temporarily, in'sembly of II:boat parts. U-Gnat
he formation of the Officers I
' World War II. 'personnel was trained in Finland
:orps, is praCtically concluded. ,09, The military quickly combined land Spain-and within- Germany it-
Aerial, equipment and arma- with reactionary industrialists and Self a U-boat school was set up
entS are modern. . . ." with government officials to put under the guise of an anti-U-boat
There isT an ord joke that th
Krupp armaments works made bab
carriage's- Which, if taken apart
could be. put together only at ?ma
chine guns. Brig. Gen. Telford Tay
lor, U. S. war crimes prosecutor
notes that the joke is "not too far
fetched."
Taylor cites the boast of Gus
tay:Krupp that "to the surprise o
many, people, Krupp began t
manufacture products which reallt
appeared to be .far distant fron
the previous mirk of th2 ,arinamen
plant. Even the Allied snoopin
commissions Were duped. Padlocks
cash registers, track repair machin
es, trash carts and similar `smal
junk' appeared really Unsuspicious.
Taylor notes that "the Krum
and Wehrmaeht documents pro
.duced at. Nuremberg reveal tha
the standard guns and tanks usec
by the German Army u th
pon e mit
,break of war in 1939 had been de
veloped by Krupp-under the Wej
'Iriar regime -before the Nazis cam
to power."
"After the assumption of powe
by Adolf Hitler;" Krupp wrote, "
had the satisfaction of being abl
to 'report to the Feuhrer tha
At
:?Krupps stood ready, after a shoi
warming-up period, to begin th
rearmament of the German pc(
;pie without any gaps in our e.
perience."'
, KRUPP waS k:idding himself wit
iMis beast about, duping "the A
Plied snooping commissirms." Allie
'inspectors left Germany in 192
the ,
, down e first revolutionary social- Achogi.
GERMAN *rearmament did n ESSENTIAL tGermn rearnia-
er
not 1st uprising ' after the war. Then '- i But even -before that the seer
tart with the formal denun they got ciation o,a down to the business of ' man rearmament was no re
I the Versailles Treaty in 1935. If ment was an, understanding be- ret. ' ?
eannament 4, a s enormous! - ItviTen the military clique and the
Pat affick4,1_..tc ao.rtr,.4. tili
rebuilding Gei?man armed forces.
Gen. Hans von Seeckt, in charge.
purred by Hitler's Nazi regime, it uf the - ?t 'big industrialists. A secret me in ,...
1924,
poitwar army, quickly go Allen Dulles, then a '5-t:ii
tatted as soon as Wald War Iorandum of German army ? ordt-, 4u
vas finished. The 'Versailles- limi- - ! naitce made Public at -the Nth em ..,,,r t----c--
13?:-'f---I-offfei?t1 and noW-licei
around that 100,000 limitation. Ije men , .
aliens ,proved ineaningless. ? organized a number of secret, ih berg A' va; unities trial, (I. d Jan. st _
i o e antral Intelligence Agene_
German 'rnilitarisin was built in ?a! It,t, al
legal formations known as t h e 16 1926 stated: TR. - 4 P', ,
. - 1 4.-t ; - - -- - t ?
o the very fain* of German capi- "After several 'attempts at co-. aim ot er munitons, Nvere soh im
"BI k ' I h " ? .' ' - '
ac lime iswe r in the .east-
ern areas bordering on Poland. Po-ally ihipPe-a out of Ge-riitany Wit
alist society. A powerful Germ operation with industry which did A. ,,,,,?4,,,,,,..., . ,.? it,
ilitary caste, with its roofs deep- not attain the desired aim, we have ' ?-"-' , ne""mit7"c'-' 4t- the Allies. _ i'll'ift-i n
'an,; lice forces and frontier guards-were
organized along military I Allies inc
id aristocracy, had been nittured for our purposes the prominent ,
at=ed, Fellg',.irePr't;ii,o, rips ftmutild.!: '
n the German Junker class of land- -hies so now.suceeeded in bringing togetlior
as to -keep the officnr corps intact.
Military aviation was prohibited lis-ii- lnia ai
ince the' days of Frederick the by
of the Reich Association' ; -----
--h"' is 'e-OrivaliFe--
by the Versailles Treaty. So a war- of Industry." f other Objective." It Was part of
When the German militarists de- flier was put in charge of civil ib.' Krupp began to develop st long range stnitegy stated by He
time
1. aviation in a-so-called Office of Air marines in Holland through a! bert Hoover._ in a letter on Aug. 1
eloped a tight alliance with the Transport. And a secret flying dummy Dutch company .,
group' of trained officers was set id d ' t ' in 19Q2,5J921:
-, 0.2i fort The whole American policy
. G. Farben Kru
. , pp arid other nio-; . ..
' du
opolies,'-there emerged an aggres- i up within the Reichswehr, as the thesa sma _e a_ rrangemen_ s in i i .1.1
i g the liquidation of the Armi
ive menace to N v or 1 d peace which;wedish Bofors plants to manu- .
German army was called! .
t ee was tO contribute everythi
mild strike again and again in facture guns according to Krupp, 1_1 f
Siihmarines were also prohibited. (i.s.igu. um
SafterwardsKr
u .
., it coluct to preventEurope ho
..urope. - And when this combine of B .
. t the koortilastart k
lie friendly ssings o . S., another in Finland. Navy officers Nveapons within Germany itself.
- .
ritish - araf French financial and
iwernment leaders, it was able to ,?
PP mot ).Bolshevik or being overt
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CPYRGHT
,veloped differences from time te
like Standard. Oil, General Electric Itime with Hitler, ad had doubts , Specifically, llliii nicarit rebuild-
and some of his military adven- ffig Germ"- the Vrer--(rw
and duPont., war against the Soviet Ilion. At
tures these were not to come until
unique 'advantage for the German was to this end that Western poi-
Cartel arrangements had the ' _
'later. T h e -German militarists need- -
military of promoting their own
armament program?while holding
back industrial processes in the
U. S. which became essential in
odd, War H.
ed Hitler to sup.nress domestic op- ('Y towards-(--(ma I, .1? d.
position and to spur their plans fo r directed after World War I.
world' conquest?just as Hitler i It was to this end that the Dawes
needed the generals and admirals plan to rebuild the German mon-
to execute these plans. . - !oink was drafted by leading U. S.
. . .... .
Thus Standard Oil turned over man industrialists," generals
alliance of Ger_1)ankers and industrialists, amone
Even this triple
important, secrets on manufa&are aod,them Owen.- D. Young,. head 4 A
Nazis which soot,. built Germany in- iGeneral-Electric. Under the Dawes
of synthetic rubber to the I. G. to a and later the Young plan, billions
great Military power did.not,. ,
Parben chemical trust?but refrain- trouble those in the U. S. and else- ni loans were poured into Germany ,
ed. from pushing synthetic rubber-,-rriueh of the funds being secretly
where who still entertained dr , .
deyelopinent in the U. S. of sicking? eal?T" used 1.4
the Nazis on the Soviet German industrialists fur
Dr. Oscar Loehr ,of I. G. Far-
ben was asked after World War II,
by a U. S.; official:
"So IC waS able to suppress com-
Iletely the synthetic rubber pro-
hictiOn in the United States, was
Union, apd hailed the .Munich sell-
out to Hitler as "peace in our
time.
Foster Dulles, himself a . by the 11`ritish tin--
As late es March 1939, John '341'11 directly,
lawyer for ,perial. Chemicals ' and the French
piiwerful German cartel interests, Schneider armamen.
ts trust?both
,
tble to use an American cdmpeny, fstated: with close -ties with German in-
the rearmament program and for
supperting..the Nazi moVement.
Gerinarr rearmament ?. wall-. also
standard Oil, to protect IG 's pat-1 "Only hysteria entertains the idea dustry?and b U. S. corporations
ents in the case of war between that Germany, Italy and japan con-
templates war against us. . . .
It took only a few months, be-
fore we German juggernaut was
unleashed?not against the Soviet
Union, but against Western Eu-
rope. The Military might U. S. in-
terests helped build up was turn-
ed against the U., S.
German militarism and impede-
ism would not remain docile pup-
pets of the Western powers?but
struck first at what :they consider-
ed to be the soft spot of Western
Europe and pursued their own ob-
jectives of conquest at terrible cost
to the entire world. It took a great
war costing millions: of Eves and all
of, the power of the grand allianceThere remained the obstacle of
of the.U. S? the Soviet Union and
ii e German people themselves, of Great -Britain, to defeat rampaging
Nazi Germany.
he United States and Germany
and . . undermined the military
potential of the, United States...
.s that right?"
"These are the conclusions which
eeern.to disclose -that' IG impaired
the military strength of the United
tate," Dr. Loehr replied. "Yes."
THE 'GERMAN military clique
,as aided by its close alliance with
t le big German monopolies?but
a so by the aid It received from
1. S. and British industrialists and
f om the tacit support for the re-
a nlarnent program by leading
Western European and U. S. poll,
ti
powerful opposition to war. from
the unions, the Communist Party
ar d many other groups: The Ger-
nun militarists early started coping
w th this problem by making pro-
!Weal alliances with the most reac-
There the story should end?ex-
cept that it seems to be Starting up
all. over again.
Again we are told that 'Mee
tic nary groups in the country?and i of t e Soviet- menace" requires
swcifically with the burgeoning !German rearmament
N. ti movement Again we are told that Ger-.1
The German army 'refused to act .man militarism wilibe safely Cou, , Krupp in the dock' at Nuren-
to suppress the right wing Kapp trolled?and that it will be eon-
. burg blit he waS released Irk
putsch of: 1920, and important
army officers early lined pp with
Niszis. Gen. Walter von -Reichenan
ION one of the, first of the General
Stiff to line up with Hitler. Gen.
Werner von Blomberg- was another Again Krupp and I. G. Farben
of he high-command who are -preparing to manufacture
lo wed. plennents of War?to repeat that
Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, one lef dread joke about turning baby
the last of the pre-Hitler Chancel,. carriages into guns.
lon and -Gen. Paul Von Hinden- Brit - this. time there are few in
bung, who appointed Hitler its Europe 'who believe. .German reili-
Chu-well-or, played key-roles in larism .,can be contained or con-
pav'aig the way, for Hitler's use trolled. A?powerful Mnyement is
to power. - arising to demand an end to the
While. the German milite,?,r new eke, man rearmament..
ed to a nice, safe.tie army U.S. government permission and
(like that supposedly docile army is no,W building an. atomic pile
of 100,000 after Wbrld War I). for the new Germam Wehr-
Again German generals are busily inacet,
plotting behind the scenes.
gore
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