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Voice from the grave

Daily Mail, Wednesday, May 2, 1945

IN death, as in life, HITLER remains the arch-apostle of bloodshed and destruction.

From beyond the grave he calls for more strife, more suffering for tortured and war-racked Europe. He demands of Germany self-immolation and national suicide.

ADMIRAL DOENITZ appears as the new war-besotted Fuhrer. He claims to have been appointed by HITLER the day before he died.

"The battle for Germany against destruction by Bolshevism goes on," he cries. He commands the armed forces of what is left of the Third Reich to stand fast to the end.

Never in all history has there been so sudden and dramatic a change from the prospects of imminent peace to the possibility of continued war.

Where is HIMMLER? The last authentic news of the man who was supposed to control Germany, and was on the point of offering unconditional surrender, was received ten days ago from Lubeck, where he was negotiating with COUNT BERNADOTTE.

The pirate fleet

UNTIL late last night the name of HIMMLER overshadowed any other in Germany. But when the German radio announced the death of HITLER there was no mention of HIMMLER. It was as if he had vanished from all knowledge.

It may be that even in the throes of her death agonies another "night of the long knives" has come to Germany.

It may be that at this last minute of the eleventh hour there is a struggle for dominance between the Army and the Navy, with the Army willing to surrender and the Navy determined not to capitulate.

Can it be that, although Germany is subdued, occupied, and disarmed, the remnants of her Fleet will carry on piratical warfare as long as they can?

Forlorn hope

THESE can be only speculaItions, for the situation is obscure. But if Doenitz thinks he stands a chance of wrecking the peace plans, he will certainly take it.

He has the honour of the German naval arm at heart. He may hope by this last gesture, to wipe out the shame of the German Navy's mutiny and surrender in the last war, and to lay the reproach for submission on the shoulders of the Army.

But he faces a forlorn hope. The British people would follow their Navy anywhere, but not the Germans. They, with their deep-rooted military tradition, will never hear ill of their Army, but their Navy has never been held in high esteem.

The war lord

NEVER has any being in all the annals of recorded time been so steeped in murder as this man, who has been so deservedly hated and universally reviled.

He set himself to destroy the ideals of 20 centuries of Christian faith and to erect in their place a pagan world of dominance based on the German gods of blood and iron. He lived war, breathed war, dreamed war.

Yet he was not a warrior, nor had he a statesman's brain. He was no ALEXANDER, no NAPOLEON, no CHARLEMAGNE. He was a semi-illiterate with a one-track mind.

He was the evil genius of the Germans. The foul creed of National-Socialism gripped them more firmly than the equally foul creed of Fascism had ever held the Italians.

Only Germans could have worshipped HITLER. They will go on worshipping him.

We, too, must keep his memory fresh — nor must we ever forget Buchenwald, Belsen, and Dachau. Let those names be HITLER'S epitaph. Let them be the tokens of our pledge that there must be no more HITLERS.

THIS WAS ADOLF HITLER...

The story of Hitler — greatest single enemy mankind has known since recorded history began — is ended. It was told in this page two days ago. Few people are not grimly familiar with each chapter of it. Today it is opportune to recall not the deeds of Adolf Hitler but his words — the words on which the world once hung breathless. Here they are, selected from his speeches and his writings.
THIS war will decide
not only the destiny
of the German
Reich but of all Germanic
peoples, and even of the
entire Continent, for
centuries to come. —
Message to Quisling,
September 27,1943.
*
The German Reich... has
no other wish than to live
on friendly and peaceable
terms with all neighbouring
States — not only the
larger States but the
neighbouring smaller
States.— May 21,1935.
*
One does not enter into
alliances with people for
whom no treaty is sacred:
because they do not move
about this earth as men of
honour and sincerity, but
as the representatives of
lies and deception, thievery
and plunder and robbery.
— Mein Kampf, p.538.
*
The urge for self-preservation
is eternally victorious.
Before it, so called humanitarianism,
which is merely
a compound of stupidity,
cowardice and arrogance,
melts like snow in the March sunshine. In constant
war, mankind has
become great — in eternal
peace it must perish
— Mein Kampf, p.105.
*
I act according to the mind
of the Almighty Creator; in
taking up the struggle
against the Jews. I am
fighting for the work of the
Lord. — Mein Kampf, p.70.
*
What is not yielded to
gentle persuasion will have
to be taken by the strong
right arm.— Mein Kampf, p. 152.
*
The mass of the people is
always conquered by the
power of the spoken word.
— Mein Kampf, p. 116.
*
The Nazi Party must not
be the servant of the mass,
but its masters. — Mein
Kampf, p.520.
*
The first and best point
of the Government's
programme is that we won't
lie and we won't swindle.
— February 10, 1933.
*
I consider myself the
Fuhrer not only of the
Germans of the Reich, but of all
Germans throughout the
world.
— February 17, 1938.
*
Only the war-mongers
think there will be a war. I
think there will be a long
period of peace. — January
30,1939.
*
' If a people is being led to
ruin by the devices of
governmental power, then
rebellion is not only the
right but the duty of every
member of such a people.
— Mein
Kampf, p.104.
*
I will not war against
women and children. I
have ordered my Air Force
to restrict itself to attacks
on military objectives. —
Berlin, September 1, 1939
*
An alliance which is not
for the purpose of waging
war has no meaning and no value ... — Mein Kampf,
p.740.
*
I am only thankful to fate
for leaving me alive so that I
can continue this struggle.
I believe that the nation needs me, as it needs a man
who will not capitulate in
any circumstances, but will
continue to bear the flag of
faith and confidence. —
August 7,1944.
*
In the last analysis there
are only three great statesmen
in the world — Stalin, I,
and Mussolini. Mussolini
is the weakest, for he has
been unable to break the
power of either the Crown
or the Church. Stalin and I
are the only ones who
envisage the future and
nothing but the future. —
Speech to Nazi chiefs
before invasion of Poland.
*
I shall make a great
prophecy. A great empire
(British) will be
destroyed... —July 20, 19&40.
*
As I have to deal with an
enemy who is a military
idiot, one cannot say where
an invasion attempt will be
made.—October 1, 1942.
*
If I were mad
I would want war.
—November 1939.
*
I am against war because I
am an honest German who,
as a soldier, behaved
honestly and intends to live
so in future—November 1933.
*
Germany is an island of
peace. — October, 1937.
*
I have prayed that the war
would come in my lifetime.
—1940.
*
I have never striven after
glory, except the glory
which comes from works of
peace. — January 31,1942
*
We believe ... in
prohibition of gas, inflammable,
and explosive bombs outside
the actual area of
warfare ... Such weapons
... are principally designed
not to bring death and
destruction to the fighting
man but to the women and
children who do not take
part in the fighting —
Reichstag, May 21, (1935)
*
I have regarded myself as
called upon by Providence
to serve my own people
alone and to deliver them
from their frightful misery.
—April 20, 1939.
*
Part of the secret of being
believed lies in the size of
your lie, since the broad
masses of the people ...
will more easily be taken in
by a big lie than a small
one — Mein Kampf
*
As a peace-loving man, I
have made every effort to
give the German nation
the defence and the
weapons which are appropriate
to persuade others
also for peace —November
6, 1938.
*
Human rights are above
the rights of the state —
Mein Kampf, p. 92.
*
The public, which is mostly
stupid and has a very short
memory, is not capable of
recognising the real
instigator of the quarrel
in the midst of the turmoil
that has been raised.
— Mein Kampf.
*
We are the least loved
people on earth. A world of
foes is raged against us, and
the German must still
today make up his mind
whether he intends to be a free soldier or a white slave.
— April 10,1923.
*
The Reich will last
1,000 years — June 25,
1934

And this is his successor

The admiral who
hates the sea

FOR the first time in history, there stands at the head of the German State neither a monarch nor a soldier nor a politician — but a sailor: Grand-Admiral Karl Doenitz, 58-years-old, ex-U-Boat commander, ex-prisoner of war, ex-patient in a lunatic asylum.

A cynic said in London last night when he learned of the appointment: "Hitler to Doenitz — no change: or, rather, little change, Doenitz, after all, was once cured!"

The background of Doenitz is the background of the whole German Navy. Where the soldiers have turned hating eyes on France, the German Navy has gazed, enviously, furiously, at Britain.

Nightmare

THE boast that Britannia rules the waves has ridden the German Navy like a nightmare. First, the size of our fleet: next, the quality of our fleet: always, the tradition of our fleet has rankled in the stiff Prussian mariners who always look like soldiers in fancy dress.

And Doenitz was the arch-hater of Britain in a clique of Britain-haters.

For he knew the British Navy. Karl Doenitz joined the Navy — the 'new,' glamorous, flamboyant service under the Kaiser's immediate eye — in 1910. A curious choice, except for his ambition, for Doenitz, son of a Berlin engineer, had no love of the sea and no feeling for it. So little did he care for it that he transferred into seaplanes.

He was a good pilot — but he did not like the air. In 1916 he transferred into the submarine service. Here he was in his element, for he could crush for all time — or thought he could — the superiority of Britain. Every ship he sank — armed or unarmed — was another nail in the British coffin.

But the Royal Navy caught up with him off Malta in 1917 and sent him to the bottom. His ship — but not him. With a chivalry he never showed, with a humanity he despised, the British fished him out and ran him to the country he still loathes.

He went to Donnington Hall, and was adjudged out of his mind. He was sent to Manchester Lunatic Asylum, where the foolish British treated him with the best skill and care. Because he was crazy, he was one of the first Germans to be repatriated — in 1919. On his return he claimed he feigned madness.

Then —like all Germany — he passed into the shadows.

Hid U-parts

BUT in the shadows he wrought for the creation of a power that should shatter all ships: the submarines.

When the Nazis first came to power in 1933 Doenitz was already making submarines in sections. He hid the parts in packing cases, away from the eyes of the Allied investigators — for Germany was still loyally abiding by the Treaty of Versailles.

With the denunciation of that clause in 1935 Karl Doenitz became the leader of the first "official" U-boat ! flotilla.

This stern man who combines friendliness to and consideration for his crews with the most murderous treatment of his enemies was appointed in 1943 to the supreme command of the German Navy.

Once in the saddle, Doenitz dismissed all the naval die-hards.

And he devised not only new craft but new tactics: the "wolf-pack" — so successful until the Royal Navy worked out the counter — was his invention.

He had two sons and both have been killed in the war. This has made a deep bitterness fanatical.

This arch-hater of Britain and of Britain's element— the admiral who hates the sea — was last night hailed as the new Fuhrer of the Reich. He was inducted with Wagnerian music and the roll of drums.

But the score should have been drawn from Gotterdammerung. The drums should have been muffled.

For it is certain that the man who sought to sink all the ships in the world will himself be — in his own idiom in the last war — "spurlos versenkt" — sunk without trace.

Guy Ramsey

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