Saar a Beehive of Activity for Hitler Agents

Spying and informing are commonplace in the Saar, according to Everyman Magazine. The Nazis have detailed lists regarding the administrative and political attitude of all Saar officials, about whom information is almost always furnished by their juniors.

Quoting the Copenhagen Politiken, Everyman continues:

One hears of nothing but what will happen “after 1935,” and the Saar inhabitants live in an atmosphere poisoned with informing and with reciprocal mistrust, in a fear of future concentration camps and “Aryan paragraphs.” The Nazi press of the district is already talking of future vengeance, and recalls the punishments inflicted on the Rhine Separatists.

At a Nazi meeting a Socialist in the Saar greets him with the words: “We know where you will go in 1935.” In many factories and works the Hitler salute is already obligatory, and woe to the worker who forgets this fact.

AMASSED ARCHIVES

The Saar Nazis have amassed complete archives against their fellow citizens. These archives are full of photographs showing a Saarlander in conversation with a Jew or a Frenchman, the latter seated during the singing of the Horst Wessel while all else are standing at attention.

The boycott of Jewish shops could not of course be proclaimed under the present regime. But the spies have taken care to note the names of everyone who contravened the tacit boycott, and the 4,000 Jews of the Saar live a life of dull terror….

I was able to speak to several members of the governing commission which rules here in the name of the League of Nations. All are unanimous in deploring the existing situation and, above all, the fact that a government interested in the forthcoming plebiscite should dare, contrary to the Treaty of Versailles, to let loose propaganda and terror in the territory.

BERLIN GIVES ORDERS

The Saar Nazis have frequent meetings with Hitler, Goering and von Papen and carry out their orders. But it must not be supposed that the terrorist methods invariably serve the cause of the Reich. Very often the opposite happens and, according to what one of the Commission told me, if the Saar were to be divided into certain definite districts, it is certain that several of them would vote with a considerable majority for the maintenance of the present regime.

A Nazi leader, Anton Scherer, declared quite recently, during a meeting at Dillingen:

“After the 1935 plebiscite our Party will, over the whole Saar District, exact exemplary vengeance for twenty-four hours. We asked our leader Adolf Hitler permission to avenge for forty-eight hours, but we were only allowed twenty-four. Therefore, brothers, sharpen your knives and get ready for the job, for we shan’t have a moment to use. We shall have to finish in twenty-four hours a job for which forty-eight wouldn’t have been too long….”