T H E S E A R E T H E F A C T S Twice within 25 years,Germany has plunged the world into war. Incomplete knowledge of the facts has led many people to believe that wiping out Hitler and Nazism will be sufficient to secure a lasting peace. Directly after World War I,a campaign of sympathy and rehabilitation for Germany was organized in the English-speaking countries,with the awowed aim of destroying the Versailles Treaty. Powerful groups have tried,and are still trying(even today in many American Universities)to create the belief that Germany was not guilty for World War I,and that consequently the German people were treated with great injustice. The resurrection of German Power after World War I was due to a large extent to the systematic activities of well-organized pro-German groups which exerted growing influence on the political,economic and cultural lifts of many countries during the last decades,principally in the Americas. Germany and her General Staff established thousands of agencies in various countries to carry out military,economic and political missions. German economic penetration in the various countries,achieved very often with unfair methods,was the forerunner of German political activities in those countries. German businessmen everywhere have been the willing tools of the German General Staff in its plans for world conquest. For many decades,America's cultural life has been indoctrinated with German propaganda through the universities and intellectual circles. Countless "German-conscious" groups like the Steuben Society and fraternal clubs outwardly respectable as Turnvereine,singing societies,and "old hometown" German newspapers,whose subtle effectiveness cann beappreciated or even detected only by students of German semantics-have been useful instruments for Pan-Germanism and a vehicle for pro-Nazi propaganda,at the same time opposing the World Court and all other forms of international cooperation. Leaders of German-American groups and of their press publicly incited their adherents to use their right to vote to advance purely German interests, i.e.,to vote only for candidates who were friendly to the Third Reich. Right after the first World War, the pro-Germans started their whining campaign and the Steuben Society of America has officially admitted that they struggled for the return of enemy alien property,that they fought the Treaty of Versailles and that they helped the German people to prosperity again. |