A PROGRAM FOR ORGANIZING GERMANS IN THE UNITED STATES TO UPHOLD THE NAZI CAUSE IN INTERNAL AMERICAN POLITICS IS SKETCHED IN AN EDITORIAL IN THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST KURIER, PUBLISHED IN STUTTGART, ACCORDING TO A BERLIN DISPATCH TO THE NEW YORK TIMES TODAY.
THE KURIER OUTLINES THREE STEPS TO BE TAKEN IN UNIFYING GERMAN-AMERICANS INTO AN AGENCY FOR PROMOTING ADOLE HITLER’S IDEAS IN THE UNITED STATES.
“WE DESIRE TO BRING BACK GERMANS IN THE UNITED STATES TO THE RACIAL UNITY AND COMMON FATE OF ALL GERMANS,” THE KURIER EDITORIAL DECLARES. “TO THIS END THE INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL REFORM OF AMERICANS OF GERMAN EXTRACTION IS NECESSARY IN ACCORD WITH THE MODEL FURNISHED BY THE OLD HOMELAND.
“WHEN WE HAVE ATTAINED THIS GOAL WE WILL THEN ORGANIZE GERMAN-AMERICANS FOR SPIRITUAL REGENERATION, ECONOMIC SUPPORT AND POLITICAL SCHOOLING.
GERMAN-AMERICAN INFLUENCE THUS ECONOMICALLY STRENGTHENED AND POLITICALLY REACTIVATED SHALL THEN BE THROWN IN THE BALANCE UNDER OUR LEADERSHIP FOR THE COMING STRUGGLE WITH COMMUNISM AND JEWS AND FOR THE AMERICANS’ REGENERATION.”
GERMAN AMERICANS, THE EDITORIAL SAYS, ARE “PREPARED TO ENLIST IN THE FINAL STRUGGLE AND TAKE THEIR PLACE IN AMERICA’S POLITICAL LIFE WHILE PRESERVING THEIR GERMAN ‘WELTANSCHAUUNG’ (VIEWPOINT) AND RACIAL CHARACTER IN ORDER TO EXERCISE A DETERMINING INFLUENCE ON THE NEW AMERICA.”
THE KURIER PROTESTS VIGOROUSLY AGAINST THE ASSERTION BY REPRESENTATIVE SAMUEL DICKSTEIN IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT AMERICA IS THREATENED BY GERMAN AGITATORS, ADDING THAT HIS STATEMENTS HAVE LOST ALL FORCE SINCE MOST AMERICANS NO LONGER FIND ANYTHING DANGEROUS IN “GERMANISM.”
IT PRAISES THE TWENTY-ONE CAMPS OF THE GERMAN-AMERICAN VOLKSBUND IN THE UNITED STATES, DENOUNCED BY MR. DICKSTEIN, DECLARING THAT “IN THESE SUMMER CAMPS AWAY FROM THE GREAT CITY THE RACIAL AND NATIONAL LIFE OF GERMAN-AMERICANS FIND FREE PLAY.”
THE KURIER IS THE OFFICIAL NAZI PARTY ORGAN FOR STUTTGART, WHICH CITY IS THE CENTER OF PAN-GERMAN AGITATION AND SEAT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR GERMANISM ABROAD, AND HAS BEEN CALLED BY HITLER THE “HEADQUARTERS OF GERMANS DOMICILED ABROAD.”
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