The Archive · 1940

Hitler Enemies Listed

In time of peace they make lists of Hitler's enemies, who are marked down for murder or kidnapping to Germany and torture when the great day comes. Organized Germans abroad are publicly told to "obey the laws of their guest-countr; the same time urged to "convince every outsider of the necessity of Germany's victory." The Nazi Party Auslands-Organization is by no means the only entity that works for Hitler outside Germany.

There are in fact no fewer than seven others: the political police or Gestapo, the Propaganda Ministry of Dr. Paul Goebbels, the German Labour Front, the intelligence services of the German Army, of the Germany Navy and of the German Air Arm, and finally the German Foreign Office, with its embassies and consulates all over the world.

Together these eight organizations spend on propaganda, espionage and sabotage roughly $20,000,000 a year. It seems a lot of money but Hitler has publicly expressed his intention of keeping this service at full blast even if it means fewer infantry divisions in the army. When one considers that this combined service, with its 30,000 employees, can probably claim credit for many of Hitler's many victories, it is obvious that the result could hardly be obtained so d ply ip any other way.

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