i) ule fest. aS oS GERMAN Bonn 1 Sia A. Officiclly demanded by Bona i Nh J A z Ye, 1 2 yx Germany ye i ad: MAS Af DEMOCRATIC */” Lh AS LISA II 6 M FEDERAL SP REPUBLIC b Seeger = 4 vee) at ‘ B. Semi-olficially demonded: by Bona ey, % N : Budapest HUNGARY : ie baa ee we fea ea fy Ge sachet teat -demonds RNs HENRI, author of pre- Bh. Var books well-known in in, “Hitler Over Europe?” Hitler Over Russia?” has ““n recently about the y, Of the German general In the Literary Gazette: Bates: “No matter how ating the defeats Ger- ‘ Staff has always con- : Methodically and pains- Sly preparing plans for €Ssion, Its Senerals do not recog- Scuments of capitulation,’ t ament commitments or ay aimed at strengthening eve bent :all their efforts : = Creating a new aggres- oy and the selection of a €, place-and method of €xt act of aggression. t the head of the military = Which in Hitler’s time {a * about. 300,000 offic- 1 he general staff is a Closed corporation. “usinger, architect of the ~undeswehr, is a former 10ns chief of the general . i nother Bonn general, ae eced the Western if in kee of the general ‘Of he thirties. i nine me's 140 generals and ie were on the gen- ‘ond Wy at the end of the orld War. © real significance of the eet the German gen- arises out of the fact ct, - has always been the the oncentrated expression Policy of a class — the € class that inspires the militar- ists to adventurous gambles for profit — in the scramble for foreign lands, natural resources and markets. “In the past they were the robber barons, the Junker landowners and feudal lords. Now they reflect the policies of the monopolies — those con- cerns which did profitable business in supplying poison gas for the death camps.” Henri goes on to. describe the methodical preparation of the German general staff for con- tinuation of criminal aggres- sion: “At the end of 1944, the French newspaper Combat pub- lished a secret German memor- andum — also written by -von Stulpnagel. By then, however, he: was commander-in-chief of the German forces in France. “Germany’s coming defeat in the Second World War was al- ready obvious, and in this 60- Here are ERE is a brief review of it West Germany’s military sinews by German to make build-up — _ the which the West revenge-seekers hope good Hitler’s defeat: ©. Up to 1958, two-thirds of the conventional weapons of the Bundeswehr (West German Army) were imported; in 1961, two-thirds are being manu- factured within the country. e Fight of 21 NATO divisions in Central Europe are West German. By the end of 1961 would bring Germany victory in a third world war. : «“ «we do not have to fear that the peace terms will be similar to those we would have en- forced ourselves, because our enemies. will be divided and estranged,’ he wrote. “We must even try to sow the seeds of future discord in the next peace treaty. . . “No defeat is ultimate. De- feat is a lesson that must be learned while preparing the next more powerful blow. “ ung”, West Berlin, Sept. 8, 1953). i (2) The western territories of Poland, often called the Odaes Neisse territories. Bonn propagandists refer to this area as “Fast Germany’. «| The Federal government does not recognize the Oder- Neisse Line as the state frontier. It regards these territories as part of the German state.’—-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (West - German Parliamentary Report, Oct. 2, 1954). (3) Former East Prussia. The Potsdam Agreement allotted, the northern half to the Soviet Union and the southern half to Poland. “We can hope that if we remain loyal to our allies ... your beautiful homeland — East Prussia — will be returned.” Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, addressing East Prussian Lands- mannschaft in Dusseldorf, July 10, 1960. Semi-officially claimed by Bonn The frontier areas of Czechoslovakia, named “Sudetenland* by German expansionisis. _. These areas were occupied by Hitler after the Munich. betrayal in 1938. ; Claimed by West German expansionists (1) Central Poland, including Poznan province and the "Polish Corridor’. This area, always overwhelmingly Polish in population, was returned to Poland after World War I. (2) Eastern Upper Silesia. Voted overwhelmingly for Poland in plebiscite after World War I. (3) Austria, An independent sovereign state, which Hitler — forcibly incorporated in ‘“‘Greater Germany” in May, 1938. (4) Alto Adige, or South Tyrol. An Italian province with considerable German-speaking population with ethnic links with Austria. Has never formed part of Germany. (5) German-speaking areas of Swiizerland. These areas have never formed part of Germany. (6) Alsace-Lorraine. French provinces seized by Germany in 1871, returned to France in 1918, and seized again by Hitler in 1940. 7 (7) Eupen-Malmedy. Part of Belgium since 1918 : (8) North Schleswig. Grabbed by Germany in 1864, voted to join Denmark in 1920 plebiscite. (9) Klaipeda (Memel). Part of the Lithuanian Soviet Social- ist Republic. Allotted to Lithuania by the Versailles Treaty im 1919, seized by Hitler in 1939. i These are the dreams of immediate conquest preceding the maddest dream of all — world conquest. The German general staff is ready to carry out these crim- inal designs which lurk behind Adenauer’s manoeuvring against the signing of a German peace treaty 16 years after war’s end. there are to be 11, and one month later, 12. By that time (January, 1962) the West Ger- man army will constitute 43 percent of NATO’s land forces in Central Europe, 30 percent of its air force and 80 percent of its navy. : e The West German army possesses a very wide range of rockets, guided missiles and jet planes, bought from Britain and the U.S.A. More than 250 rocket-launching pads will also. pe ready shortly. e On April 23, 1958, the Bun- {raised to 6,000 tons, ie. the the ate they have already... training and conventional arm- ament in the autumn of 1959, bear a special character. The territory, methods and conditions chosen provided in- tensive training for a lightn- ing surprise attack on the Ger- man Democratic Republic, with massive sea landings along the Baltic coast and a tank break- through in the south, over the - GDR-Czechoslovak frontier re- gion — backed by crushing nuclear attacks on Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Baltic ports. deswehr was allowed to manu- facture anti-tank guided mis- siles. e On Oct. 21, 1959, Western Germany was allowed to build 5,000-ton destroyers (instead of 3,000-ton ones as originally de- cided) armed with atomic rock- ets. Last June the level was Bundesmarine was allowed to build atomic-armed cruisers. The military manoeuvres of the Bundeswehr, since it com- pleted the first phase of its September 1, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5