Instructions from the German War Ministry to its secret agents, containing closely guarded poison gas formulas and revelations regarding the use of disease bacilli for military purposes, are in the possession of Heinz Liepmann, German refugee author and writer for the Jewish Daily Bulletin, here for a two months’ lecture tour.
Liepmann regards these documents, whose authenticity he says has been verified by British and French government agencies, as of such tremendous importance that he believes their publication will revolutionize European political history.
One of his first moves, after he had arrived here Monday, was to take these papers to a bank and place them in a safety deposit vault. His luggage has been rifled repeatedly in Europe by Nazi spies, he says, and he is taking no chances of allowing the documents to be stolen while here.
Before he permits the contents of the secret manuscripts to be printed, Liepmann intends to ask the advice of certain high United States government officials, with whom he has appointments but whose names he is not yet liberty to divulge.
The Reich War Ministry communications, the writer says, prove that Hitler is preparing to wage an offensive attack on other European powers, and establish beyond doubt that Der Fuehrer’s insistance that Germany is bulwarking only her defenses is pretense.
He charges further that Germany is preparing for the next war by constructing focal munitions centers outside her border.
Liepmann declares he has unimpeachable information that Nazi secret agents, during last June and July, made experiments with harmless bacteria in London and Paris subway stations, which are so constructed as to form havens for residents in the event of air plant attacks.
Cultures of the bacteria, he says, were strewn at various points on the street surface near subway air draughts, while Reich aides stood in the subway stations to obtain specimens of the air drawn into the subterranean passages, for the purpose of determining how many of the bacteria reached the underground levels.
FACTS VERIFIED, HE SAYS
All these facts, the author says, are in the hands of British and French government officials, who have examined them and found them to be true.
“I am convinced,” Liepmann said yesterday, “that after these documents are made public, the illegal parties in Germany, which have become strong and closely allied, will take the ascendancy. “
To illustrate how even the inner circles of the Nazi party are riddled with intrigue, Liepmann told of events which had occurred in Hamburg, his native city.
“Every time the Gestapo (secret police) made plans to attack or arrest Socialists or Jews in Hamburg,” he said, “in some mysterious way the prospective victims were warned several hours in advance, and had plenty of time to escape. This happened so frequently that Nazi officials were forced to change the entire Hamburg Gestapo personnel twice. “
CAST NEW LIGHT ON SAAR
Questioned regarding the Saar Liepmann {SPAN}###{/SPAN} out one interesting point which heretofore has not been emphasized.
“My reason for believing there is a strong possibility that the Saar will vote for maintenance of the status quo in the plebiscite next January,” he said, “is principally an economic one.
“You must realize that the French franc, and not the German mark, is the medium of exchange in that district. This is important, because it means the Saar hasn’t been hit by inflation and by the uncertain monetary fluctuations that have worked such havoc with German business.
“Another fact to be considered is that the Saar depends almost exclusively on its coal mines for income. France already has made it clear that if the district goes over to the Reich, she will refuse to purchase Saar coal. Germany herself is in no position to support the mines. Therefore the area’s chief industry stands to suffer drastically if the plebiscite decides in favor of Hitler.
THREATS MAY SWING VOTE
“While residents of the valley are undeniably German, racially and in their sympathies, I don’t believe they have much sincere love for the Nazis. Many of them have been frightened, however, by threats of ‘what will happen to you after January, 1935, if you don’t stop shooting your mouth off, and if you don’t vote right. ‘”
Liepmann expects to go to Montreal to lecture this week-end. He plans eventually to take up residence in London. Asked whether he would seek British citizenship, he smiled quizzically.
“I don’t think so,” he said. “You know, my family has been in Hamburg since the seventeenth century. “
IS ONLY 29
Although he is only twenty-nine years old, the writer seems much older. The physical brutalities to which he was subjected in a Nazi concentration camp have left indelible marks on him. Physicians have told him he has only a year or two to live.
“But I don’t mind,” he says. “My death, if it comes as soon as the doctors say it will, should make good propaganda against the Nazis. “
LONG ISLAND JUNIORS MEET
A general meeting of leaders of Young Folks organizations in the Far Rockaway section will be held on November 15.
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