ae Foreign Ministers of tne

12 Atlantic” Pact countries
have agreed upon inclusion of
West German armed units into
an “‘integrated defense force of
the Atlantic Pact countries.”
This was announced on September
26 in an official communique and
means the de facto inclusion of
West Germany into the aggres-
sive North Atlantic Pact.

The people of the world have
aot yet forgotten that the Allies
declared in the Yalta Agreement:

“We are determined to disarm
and disband all German armed
forces; break up for all time the
German General Staff that has
repeatedly contrived the resurgence
of German: militarism; remove or
destroy all German indusiry that
could be used for military produc-
fion; bring all war criminals to
just and swifl punishment. . .--

After the First World War the
Western Allies secretly negotiated
with the German General Hoff-
man in order to use the remain-
der of his imperial army against
‘the young Soviet Union. This was
the first step in the far-reaching
Western support of German mili-
tarism which led to Hitler and
‘World War Two.

Since the end of the Second
World War the same pattern has
been adopted to the final aim of
provoking a Third World War. &

closer study of the facts proves”

that the U.S. is carrying out a
plan drawn up by the generals
varound Hitler even at the time
when they were launching their
4944 counter-offensive against the
Americans in the Ardennes.

The key to the present remili-
tarisation of West Germany is to

General Mark Clark (left), commanding U.S. army field forces,
is seen here inspecting occupation troops being trained in the use of
flamethrowers in West Germany.

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By HANS KOTEK

be found in a book recently pub-
lished by the Nibelungen Publish-
ing House. The book is called Die
Geheimfront (The Home Front)
and deals with the activities of
the German secret. service. The
author of this book modestly calls
himself Walter Hagen. He was
one of the closest collaborators of
Heydrich’s . successor, General
Kaltenbrunner. ~

Hagen writes that Himmler’s
secret service—the SS—attempted
to come to an agreement with the
West as far back as 1940 in order

to secure the position of Hitler's -

army and the SS and to reserve
a free hand for the imminent at-
tack against the Soviet Union.
Negotiations were carried out
through the Vatican.

This cooperation was to have
been the opening phase of a2 much
broader conception. It was to
have paved the way to an under-
standing: between Hitler, Musso-
lini and the West and to the crea-
tion of a great European-Ameri-
can front against the Soviet Union.

Negotiations between the Ger-
man secret service and the Allies
received a new impulse in the fall
of 1944 when the leader of the
American secret service OSS (Of-
fice of Strategic Services), Allan
Welsh Dulles, took an active part.
Dulles is the brother of the pre-
sent-day American foregin policy
adviser, John Foster Dulles, who

is one of the main instigators of .

the American aggression against
the Korean people. :

While Allan Welsh Dulles, a
director of the New York Schroe-
der Bank—a branch of the Berlin
Schroeder Bank headed by SS-
officer Baron Kurt von Schroeder
“had a “natural sympathy” for
Hitler, his brother John Foster
Dulles as a partner of Sullivan

'

and Cromwell, most powerful of
U.S. corporation lawyers, also im-
pressed on, Allan Dulles the need
to bear in mind the interests of
his clients: the Rockeféllers and
the Morgans, the» Spanish Bank
and the Nazi concern I. G. Farben-
industrie.

Allan Welsh Dulles did not dis-
appoint the hopes his friends had
placed on him. Hagen discloses
in his book that Dulles was not
only in touch with the German

officers’ clique which was pre- .

paring the 1944 putsch but was at
the same time connected with
Himmler’s SS and the secret ser-
vice of the Wehrmacht which
operated under the name “Ab-
wehr.”

Through the help of the Vatican
and an unnamed Austrian indus-
trialist, the German secret service
and Allan Dulles settled down to
business in the winter of 1944,
aiming to save at least part of
the German armed forces and to
halt the victorious avalanche of
the Soviet liberation forces on a
line as far east as possible.

It was agreed that the Nazis
would only use the North Italian-
Austrian Alps, with the territory
leading to them from the East,
North and South, for defense
against the Soviet Army and un-
der no circumstances to weaken
this defense by adapting it also
for defense against the West.

However, neither Allan Dulles
nor the Wehrmacht could slow
down the Soviet advance. Con-
sequently, with Field Marshall
Rundstedt’s consent, the German
Generals Loehr and Rendulic, to-
gether with Field Marshall Kes-
selring, negotiated a special cap-
itulation of the German southern
front to the Western Allies. This
was accepted by the latter con-
trary to the agreement reached
at Yalta, but it later had to be
annulled as a result of public
pressure. bh

In the gloomy days of Decem-
ber, 1944, when Allan Welsh Dul-
les was wooing the SS and when
British paratroopers were poutr-
ing their deadly fire into the hero-
ic resistance fighters of Greece
who had driven out the Nazi in-
vader—when the Soviet Army was
preparing the offensive which was
to carry it from the river Vistula
to the Oder—the German ruling
class was making plans for the
future. It knew that Hitler’s
game was lost and did not scruple
to throw him overboard. Its only
concern was to stay in power

after the capitulation. :

A small exclusive circle of high
“German officers met at the War
Academy. where representatives
of Hitler’s General Staff frankly’

. told them’ that the end was in-

evitable. The order was given

“for immediate working out of a

plan to secure survival of the
Wehrmacht and its rebuilding
after the coming capitulation.
Nazi “Ritterkreuz-bearer” Ma-
jor Walter Brukket was one of
the officers entrusted with work-
ing out the plan. He has now

va

found his way into the camp of

peace and recently revealed de-
tails of the Nazi generals’ con-
spiracy which—with the support

of the Western imperialists—is

now being carried out.

®
With their customary thorough-

- ness, the high German militarists

settled down to work, taking great
pains to keep the conspiracy a
top secret. First of all a “cen-
tral staff of Fuehrers” was set up.
Neither the names of the Fuehrer
staff nor their seat was to be
known to any member of the il-
legal organization which was to
be formed after the capitulation.

The plan foresaw two phases of
development. The first phase was
to stretch over the first two years
of occupation and the second up
to the fourth year. It was taken
for granted at that time it would
be possible to come out openly
with the plans for Germany’s re-
militarisation in® the fifth year
of the occupation (1950). _

The picked officers were to find
themselves civilian jobs in the

areas of their former recruiting

districts—preferably in some in-
dustrial enterprise. They were
then to contact former’ higher
Nazi officers and draw up lists
of their names and addresses. At
the same time they were to organ-
ise regular “‘beer evenings” and
later illegal officers’ clubs.

During the second phase it was
planned to draw younger officers
gradually into the net and com-
pile lists of efficient non-com-
missioned officers and men. Con-
tact was also to be established
with political circles “of the Ger-
man government which would
probably exist at that: stage.’

After thé Soviet Army had forc-
ed the Nazis to their knees and
Germany capitulated uncondi-
tionally on May 5, 1945, the West-
ern Powers made a show of car-
rying out the agreements of Yal-
ta and Potsdam. But while their

Plot to rearm
West
Germany

sun

lawyers sent the most discredited
war criminals to the gallows at
Nuremberg their politicians were
already conspiring against their
Soviet ally with the less conspic-
uous Nazi leaders.

The speed of the Soviet advance
did not permit demobilisation of
all those officers entrusted with
underground tasks and their is-

. suing with false papers.

On May 5, the War Academy,
with all the material connected
with the conspiracy, was handed
over to General George Patton,
Commander of the U.S. Third
Army, who never attempted to
‘hide his sympathis for fascism,
supported the main lines of the
‘plan using Major Arnd Von Oert-
zen, a former officer of Rommel’s
Afrika Corps, as a laison officer
with the underground and even
agreeing to the major’s promotion
while formally a prisoner of war.

@ :
*

During the first half of 1946
numerous private circles and
“peer societies’ were organized
and by the end of the year the
first illegal groups were spring-
ing up.

_ The Western Allies also helped
by concentrating Nazi generals
and officers’of the General Staff
in special camps. One such
group, «with, special “experience”
in fighting the Soviet Army and
partisans, was set up at Allen-
dorf near Marburg and given the
task of writing a “History of the
War.” Hitler’s Chief of Staff,
General Halder, later became the ©
head of this group and moved ‘it
to Koenigstein. Halder’s group
was to play an important part in
the ‘remilitarisation of West Ger-
many. va

Since 1947, a large number of
“professional organizations” of
former Nazi officers and later
non-commissioned officers and
men have been set up all over the

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light automatic weapons.

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Plants ‘producing ‘arms

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po partisans’in West Berlin have disclosed that war
"materials are again being produced in West Germany:

The iRibia works in Luenedurg, for instance, are already
turning out high explosives. The optical works, Steintal,
\ at Munich are producing submarine periscopes, and the
machine.factory, Walter, at Neuengamme is turning out

The following factories in West Germany are pro-
ducing spare parts for tanks: the ballbearing works at
Stuttgart and Schwartzkopt in the French sector of Ber-
lin. Armor plates and tanks are being produced in the
armament factory in Allach. The Concordia foundry at
Bendorf and Koblenz produces tank turrets. At the
Krupp Panzerwerk II in. Essen everything is ready to
take up the production of Panther tanks again.

These are reported to be only a few of the factories
in West Germany already producing war materials under
the Western Allied government’s supervision.

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