German American Congress for Democracy, 1941-1942

German American

Conuress or Democracy

Preamble

For over one hundred and fifty years the Constitution of
the United States has stood a bulwark of democracy, indi-
vidual liberty and rights of property. The provisions of this
great document have enabled the American people to with-
stand many crises and to weather successfully many storms,
political and financial, sometimes even those racial and
religious, usually without violence.

Over these years no sacrifices have been too great, as
made by true Americans, to retain, preserve and defend the
sound principles of our American democracy, the ideals of
American home life and freedom of religious pursuit in a
land of the free, all these things being an integral part of the
spiritual and moral welfare of organized society in these
United States.

Recent developments, both on this continent and over-
seas have brought forcefully to the attention of Americans
the activities of certain organizations and groups inimical
to our present form of representative democratic government.
Today they are abroad in our land. If unchecked here and
not combatted in their earlier stages by means of educational
campaigns in home and school, by proper legislation and its
vigorous enforcement, they may develop to such an extent
that serious consequences may result, as they have in other
countries.

Disregard of human rights, destruction and confiscation
of property, disruption of industrial and economic life, mob
rule, and chaos may be the consequences if lack of planning
and foresight to combat these sinister and subversive in-
fluences and activities are allowed to continue.

Avowedly, these certain organizations and groups in these
United States, representing only a negligible percentage of
the native and naturalized population, are determined by
subversive activities and propaganda, to undermine and even-
tually destroy the sound principles of American government
upon which this democracy and its free institutions are based,
and attempt to surplant a government of violence and dis-
regard of individual freedom and property rights.

Aims and Purposes

1—To participate in the defense of American institutions,
to cooperate with all American authorities and organizations
devoted to that cause.

2—To promote and advocate the principles of democracy,
freedom and human rights among the American population
of German birth or German ancestry.

3—To fight with the utmost energy against insidious
propaganda of all movements representing the totalitarian
dictatorships.

4__To expose and combat particularly all those organi-
zations, groups and individuals who, under all kinds of dis-
guises, constitute a grave danger to the life and future of
the United States, generally known as the “Fifth Column”’.

5—To convince our fellow German Americans that de-
mocracy and civilization must be preserved and extended
throughout the world and to support, therefore the foreign
policy of the Government of the United States, designed to
accomplish such purpose.

For further information write to the German J American
Congress for Democracy, 1133 Broadway, Room 604, New

York City. EZ. 119

Loval Americans
of German birth and Ancestry—

Herve Is Your Chance!

You must speak up now—the State of Emergency concerns you particularly.
Are you Nazis? No!

But you millions who are not Nazis—why don’t you say so?

Your fellow Americans are waiting for you to declare where you stand!
Let us look at the facts.

According to a recent estimate, there are approximately 7,000,000 Americans of German
birth and immediate German parentage, seven million German Americans of first and

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Of these seven million German Americans we can estimate about five per cent being
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Unfortunately not more than another five per cent are engaged in fighting the Nazis over
here or have otherwise taken a firm stand on the Nazi issue: 6

Ninety per cent of the German Americans first and second generation are on the fence,
are in between, have not taken sides as they should:

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Therefore: the problem is—in which direction will those ninety percent of the German-
Americans be swayed? Will the Nazis succeed in getting them over to their side? Or will the
large majority of the German Americans remain true to the time-honored tradition of Wilhelm
von Steuben, Karl Schurz and the many other German American champions of democracy?

That is the problem, and now let us make a simple practical comparison.

The Nazis say that a totalitarian system is the only efficient form of government. While
the democracies do nothing but talking, the totalitarian government acts and gets things done.
One of the most frequently used examples are the automobile roads. Let us disregard, for the
moment, whether Hitler built these roads more for military than civilian use—we shall compare
the efficiency in building them in Germany with that in the United States. Hitler was not the
inventor of good automobile roads—we have some roads here, too. In fact, if Hitler had built
something like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, like the Triborough Bridge in New York,
or like the Pennsylvania Turnpike—he would invite the whole world to look at it!

A Slave Road

One of Hitler’s Autobahnen: a new road leading out of
Berlin to the West. How are these roads built?

Most of the labor is provided for by forced labor. The
workers have been drafted like soldiers; they are paid miser-
able wages. (Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the so-called “Labor
Front,” admitted recently that 54 per cent of the wage earn-
ing population in Germany live on less than $7 a week!) They
are staying in barracks away from their families; they can,
of course, neither organize in unions—they are prohibited—
nor strike (participating in a

strike — five years peniten- A Road Built by
tiary; organizing a strike — ’

ten years; leading a strike Free Men!
—capital punishment)! Hit-
ler’s automobile roads are
built by SLAVES!

One of the automobile roads of the United States: the Penn-
sylvania Turnpike.

The American automobile roads are built by skilled workers,
paid (on WPA projects) a “security wage” of $25-$35, and by un-
employed, being paid between $15-$20 a week. But: the American
workers, working in a democracy, can organize, have all the rights
denied the German workers; they are free men who as voters decide
on the projects by way of influencing the parliament as well as the
administration. They can go where they please, read what they
please, say what they please, listen on the radio to what they
please. They can do what the German workers could do—prior to
the establishment of Nazi slavery in Germany and the conquered

countries.

Consequently it is untrue that totalitarian systems are the only efficient form of government.
Roads and bridges, housing projects and other public building structures built under American
democracy are not only materially better than the Nazi works but are put up by free men, as
compared with slave work under the totalitarian regime!

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Why Are You Under Suspicion?

The official organization of the Nazi Party abroad published in May, 1937, a handbook, edited
by Dr. Friedrich Lange, in which it is stated:

“We will never call German people who are citizens of foreign countries, aliens, but racial
comrades! German people will always remain our racial] comrades, even if foreign citizenship is
forced upon them, just as members of an alien race can never become racial comrades by means
of conversion. We will always remember that we, Germans, are not only citizens of the largest
German state, of the German Reich, but that we are also racial comrades of more than thirty
million Germans outside our borders. We must not tire to say to ourselves, to our 25 neighboring
countries, and to the world, that state boundaries of today are not national boundaries.”

The Nazis Want You to Obey!

Already in 1934, the “Gauleiter” for all Germans abroad, Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (since
then appointed Undersecretary of State at the Foreign Office of the German Government) pointed out:

virtues more necessary than ever for those of us who are in foreign countries.”

In order to exclude misinterpretation of his statement, Dr. Bohle, addressing the Congress
of Germans Abroad in Stuttgart, said on August 30th, 1987:

“We Nationalsocialists living abroad reject the concept of such a cosmopolitan German whose
chief ambition is to assimilate with the people of the country in which he lives, because this cos-

mopolitan German not only makes himself ridiculous in the eyes of foreigners, but because he
consciously or unconsciously denies his Germandom. We only know the concept of the complete

German who, as a citizen of his country, is always and everywhere a German and nothing but
a German. This makes him a Nationalsocialist.”

That Goes for Naturalized Citizens, Too!

Make no mistake about it: the Germans who are now American citizens are included. The

“We may have various citizenship papers in our drawers, but we are all Germans and
part of the great German nation of a hundred million people.”

Mind you: the man who said this is a naturalized American citizen!

In the 1937 yearbook of the American German Volksbund we find a statement to the effect

that the Nazis want to prevent the Americanization of the Germans in the United States:
“Every effort in behalf of the German youth is of great importance over there (Germany),

since the future of Germandom in America can no longer depend upon new recruits from across

the sea. It must find its German future in its own land, and construct it out of its own youth.
Therefore, the youth groups of the German-American Volksbund represent a truly great achieve-

ment for Germandom. ... Within the next few years, the entire unified strength of Germandom
will be necessary in order to check the shrinkage in the German population through the American-

ization of its youth.”

There we have the complete picture of the problem all Americans of German birth or
descent have to face.

Are the people of the United States to look upon their German fellow citizens in the light
of the above quoted Nazi statements?

Will the Americans of German ancestry permit themselves to be represented by such
outrageous falsehoods of the Nazi propaganda.

We Have to Choose, All of Us, Between the Two:

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Karl Schurz Fritz Kuhn

Who of these two men (Karl Schurz will forgive, in heaven, the comparison) is to be the
true representative of Americans of German birth or descent.

THEREFORE: GERMAN AMERICANS, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE:

JOIN THE GERMAN AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR DEMOCRACY! Separate yourselves
from the false prophets of the Nazi organizations who make you look as if you were all traitors,
as if your oath of allegiance to the United States were a perjury, as if you were a despicable
infiltration of this country!

Speak up! Take your stand with the liberty-loving Germans who now fill the penitentiaries,
jails and concentration camps of Germany because they were too proud to bear the yoke of Hitler!

And don’t wait—join now! We have got to face the issue: either we are true Germans as
we wish to be true Americans—proud of our heritage, free men and women, willing to help in the
struggle of preserving liberty throughout the world, or we are Hitler’s tools, Hitler’s slaves,
America’s enemies.

With you, and you, and you joining our ranks, we will succeed. The people of the United
States will learn to regard the German Americans as highly as a loyal part of the population of
our great country.

If you agree with us, fill out this application blank right away and send it in:

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Congress for Democracy, Inc.
1133 Broadway, Room 604 New York, N. Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8430

Membership Application

_I hereby apply for membership in the German American Congress for Democracy. I pledge to promote the
American principles of democracy, freedom and human rights; to fight with the utmost energy against nazism,
fascism and communism; to help in exposing and combatting all movements designed to endanger our American
democracy; to lend active aid in the defense of American institutions; and to support measures designed to prevent
undue discrimination against German Americans who are loyal to the United States.

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Dea r Friends:

The undersigned wishes to become a regular
contributor to the -ustaining Fund of the
German Anericar. Congress for Lemocracy by
pledging a contribution of $2.00 per month.

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CONGRESS FOR DEMOCRACY, INC.

OFFICE OF NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD

1133 Broadway, Room 604, New York, N. Y.

EXECUTIVE BOARD

DR. FRANK BOHN, Chairman
CONRAD WOELFEL, Secretary
ERNST CONRADT, Treasurer
PETER EHLEN, Recording Secretary

Dear friend:

April 25, 1942.

EXECUTIVE BOARD

GERHART SEGER, ist Vice-Chairman
ARNO QO. SPERLING, 2nd Vice-Chairman
TONI SENDER, 3rd Vice-Chairman
HERMAN LUEHRIG, 4th Vice-Chairman
MARIE MacDONALD, 5th Vice-Chairman

y The active participation of the United States in vhis
universal war for the preservation of Democracy, liberty and
and human rights has added an even greater responsibility to

the task which the Gerrian American Congress for Democracy

has chosen,

Today our country is confronted with the propaganda
activities not only bythe Sth, but also a 6th column, The
Nazi propaganda which for many years was dumped upon the
American people, especially the German Americans, still must
be recognized as having been effective, due to the fact that
such propaganda could be carried on practically unmolested
and without serious counter~action.

Today if we want to win over the great mass of the
German American population to take an active part in the
fight against Hitlerism, a campaign of enlightment on a

scale never before attempted must be launched.

We certainly

know how to do it and we do have the people who can do it.
Unfortunately, in recent months, our desire to realize our
plans were hampered because of lack of sufficient finances.

We are right now preparinya new series of radio vorograms
and recordings which we hope to be able to br. xdecast every-

where in the United “tates,

We are publishing at regular

intervals a release called "AIR NWS" in which we analyze the
Nazi shortwave propaganda, directed to the American pvenple.

More literature must be circulated, more lectures
arranged. fh-search on the effects of Nazi propaganda and
combatting of same among the various German American groups

is necessary.

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We expect to be able to finance our radio progra m
through special contrib’ tions at least to a large extent.
Our membership fees are insufficient to vay for all the
work we must do. Our local chapters need their funds for
local purposes. Thus our national office is almost entirely
dependent on voluntary contributions.

To better assure the realization of our plans in the
future we are establishing a sustaining fund. knowing that
you have at all times been interested in our work and ready
to give us your sunvert we should like to solicit your aid
for this sustaining fum.

There are enough friends everywhere so that we are
quite, certain that the individual contributor's obli jation
would actually be a small one.

We have selected your name along with several hundred
others to whom we are appealing for a regular monthly con-
tribution of two dollars fer our sustaining fund.

If you are able to meet our request we invite you to
fill out the enclesed cerd and forward it to our office.

tivery contributor to this sustaining fund will receive
a monthly statement showing how this money was expended to
give assurance that the funds so contributed are actually
used for the purpose for which they were solicited. We
believe that this method will at the same time create 4 more
active interest in our organization among those who are able
to become a party to this sustaining fund. We also gladly
accept any suggestions or plans which you might want to
prevose in connection with the work of cur organization.

Thanking you in advance for giving this matter your
consideration, we remain,

Yours for freedom and democracy,

CORMAN AMBRICAN CONGRESS
FOR DEMOCRACY, INC.

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Rally to Fight Hitlerism

MRS. DOROTHY GROTE VOSS

The wife of the Rev. Carl Her-
man Voss, pastor of the Smith-
field Street German Evangeli-
eal Lutheran Church, speaking
at an organization meeting here
of the German-American Con-
gress for Democracy.

Loyalty Pledged
To Democracy
At Meeting

Former Member of

| Reichstag Outlines
Anti-Nazi Drive

German-Americans were urged
to take “positive action” to end
the menace of Hitlerism in the
world and to announce their loy-

GERHAR

. weger or New
member of the Germa
Reichstag, speaking at an organiza-

tion meeting in Hotel Allerton of
the local chapter of the German|
American Congress for Democracy,
asserted last night that there would
be a third world war if Germany
were cut to pieces at the end of
the present war.

The former German official,
widely known as an author and
lecturer, was introduced at the
meeting by Victor F; J. Tlach, Aus-
trian consul general here until the
German invasion of Austria in
1938.

Seger told his listeners that this
country’s 7,000,000 German Ameri-
cans were indifferent to the Nazi

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German group

A Chicago chapter of the Ger
man-American Congress for Democ
racy began operations today as a
anti-totalitarian organization fo
German-Americans eager to be free
of any identification with the Bund

The chapter was formed Jas
night at a meeting of about 100
Chicagoans of German extractioi
in Social Turner hall, 1657 Belmont
In charge were Nicholas Pescu,
3500 W. North, a tailor, and Ger-
hardt Seger, national vice chair-
man of the congress.

“We want to protect German-
Americans from the suspicion that®™
any German is likely to be a Nazi,”
said Seger. “There are 7,000,000
Jermans of first or second genera-
tion in this country.”

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ple of Germany are not respon-
sible for what the Nazis have
done, so that when peace comes
it will not be like that of Ver- §
sailles. We must represent the |
true free Germans and secure
for Germany another chance
for democracy.”

Bing “cae

VICTOR J. TLACH

THE Chicago (Illinois) DAILY NEWS

jalty to the precepts of Americany

democracy at a meeting of thej
German American Congress for}
‘Democracy’ in North Side Car-}

negie Hall last night.

More than 100 persons of Ger-|

man descent heard Gerhardt Se-
igar,
member, publisher of Volkszeitung
newspaper and vice president of
the national
Congress for Democracy, denounce
Hitler as a world menace and out-

tion for Hitler-hating German-
Americans,

GUILT PLACED ON HITLER

Other speakers were Dorothy
Grote Voss, wife of the Rev. Carl
Herman Voss, pastor of the Ger-
man Evangelical Church, Smith-
field Street; John Bookjans, pres-
ident of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employes Union; George Seibel,
librarian of North Side Carnegie
Library, and Herman Koch, chair-
man of the meeting.

Placing sole guilt for the pres-
ent war on Hitler, Segar said:

“The fact that proves Hitler’s

sole guilt for this war is the to- ,
tal unpreparedness of Britain |
and France as compared to the ®

complete preparedness of Ger-
many.

“Poland, however, was not the
first country he invaded. Ger-
many was first, when he took

over the nation with the private |

army he had built up.”

‘PEOPLE NOT TO BLAME’

German-American people, he
said, must make the world real-
ize there is a difference between
Germans and Nazis. He added:

“We must make the people ct
the world realize that the peo-

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LOS ANGELES (Cal.)
TIMES

Congress for Democracy

Chapter Here Will Be
§ Headed by Film Writer

Organization of a Southern Cal
Mmifornia chapter of the German
mAmerican Congress for Democra
mcy was announced yesterday by

Karl Schueck, motion-picture
riter of 5330 Loma Linda Ave.

The congress, which has made

onsiderable progress in the
East, is composed of German
emigres and Americans of Ger-
an descent who are loyal to
American ideals and opposed to
the Hitler regime, Schueck ex-}
plained.
No religious, political or other|
qualifications are required, but
embers must provide witnesses
mo attest their faith in democra-
my and opposition to Nazi and
ommunist doctrines.

The organization has as one of
ts purposes the prevention of
ndue discrimination against
loyal. German-Americans, and
as the tacit indorsement of the
mUepartment of Justice, Schueck
4=clared. He is an exiled Ger-
nan author whv came to the
nited States in 1939 after living]
fOr six years in Italy.

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man ancestry.

A succession of speakers at an all-
day session proclaimed the inten-
tion of the new body to uncover
Adolf Hitler’s agents in this coun-
try and to counteract their propar
ganda.

The chairman was Dr. Frank
Bohn, lecturer on political economy
at the University of Southern Cali-
fornia and associate of the Creel
Committee of Public Information in
the first World War. He said that |
Hitler was spending millions in an
attempt to capture the support of
the German-American working
population in this country, and that
the Hitler philosophy had already
made considerable inroads in the 2 f
German language newspapers and Dr. Frank Bohn, national chairman of the organization, at yas

churches in the Middle West. day’s meeting at the Hotel Piccadilly.

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5) State nlong j ee have the membe itimate 2q Py, >~Cuz 2p kt; fe ew, no dis- ing bridgeheads, bombarding
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(a here uni itions ap lary {chy Qpr) A OMore placards; An especially daring shot
tan ow Png are st In ‘Sep eip “Ung “an, as ‘We Don’t |the demolition of one of thal i
re combat Rima ee iS n pe or Communist | casemates in the Eben Emael® ;
me am E Wo th Co Mien erican e . @ A ‘Down With All | of forts by a Nazi dynamiter. Bs
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agents in this country to destro
the faith of German-American
workers in democracy was pointed
out by Conrad Woelfel, secretary
treasurer of the

pre-Hitler German Cures. ff i a ; " “propagandwesm omg: Gerbies- Warning of Propa ®

NEW YORK_TIMES,
“VALTIN. STORY ASSAILED |

Gestapo Charge Slanders Decent

Anti-Nazis, German Group Say | Justice, the Department of Labo ion.”

Objection to the recent testimony
>f Jan Valtin before the Dies com-
mittee that ‘“‘it is impossible for
any one to be released from a Nazi
concentration camp unless he signs
a pledge to serve the Gestapo” was
made in a letter sent yesterday tog
Representative Martin Dies by the
German American Congress for De-,
mocracy, an anti-Nazi organization.

“Tf this is a correct quotation o
Mr. Valtin’s sweeping statement,”’

the letter said, ‘it constitutes anMuciS ju erbringen, 2c}

out al conference called to mobilize
hat 2 Sida Americans of German birth ©
“descent for loyal service to the
Frank | United States, particularly in the

detection of totalitarian spies anq German - Americ et

Internationag nen a similar organization ren-

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Aen der Deutjch - Amey

Boston / Masse

Germans to Form Anti-Nazi Group

By a Stef Correspondent of T Chruglian Sciene Monito

NEW YORK, Feb. 27—A nation-{

MORN INGPOST

sboteurs and _ the combata it

fAmerigans, has been called for

Jamestown / New York

arch 2 by the German-American FE ad V @) is S B r 1 t 4 S h

Congress for Democracy here.
Repeating World War history,

: : Dr. Frank Bohn, chairman of the
dered ‘effective service, the confer-§G.;man American Congress for

ence will formulate plans for work§Democracy, asserted Sunday that

among the 20,000,000 Americans 0 Adolf Hitler was_ rg ee
i 1

German descent. Speakers repre- lions of dollars in 7

States “to poison the German-
senting the Federal Department off American section of public opin;

“JT am ashamed to admj
Bohn told the first ne y

Rochelter Abkendpojt, orens great Miggy
DPU-Honare} fiir ee ae
Sic Deanokra

and the’ Attorne General’s office

New Yor! — Den alten og

et erijtlic) gefabrdet
ujtellen, guglete) aber ar

abominable slander of numerous@houtider Wbjianumurg i

honorable, decent, sincere anti-
Nazis, former prisoners in Nazi con-!
centration camps. These victims off
Hitler’s would have preferred to re-}
main for the rest of their life be-
hind barbed wire rather than to}
lower themselves by becoming des-
picable tools of Himmler’s Ges-
tape

“The German american Congress
for Democracy is aiding the author-
ities in all phases of the fight
against the fifth column, submit-
ting reliable informations unsensa-
tionally, in order to help protect
our American institutions. How-
ever, it would defeat the very pur-
pose of effective democratic defense
to cast suspicion in such a general
way on men and women who passed
through their ordeal with courag'
and bigh character.”

—

Ste Louis / Mo
GLO BE *+*DEMOK RA T

German-American
Propaganda Blasted \/
By *xssociated Press. \

NEW YORK, March 2.—Dr. Frank
Bohn, chairman of the German
American Congress for Democracy,
asserted today that Adolf. Hitler
was spending millions of dollars i
the United States “to poison the
German-American section of public
opinion.”

“IT am ashamed to admit,” Dr.
Bohn told the first national confer-
ence of the organization, “that in
the great Middle West the German
ized section of American opinion
is, in the present crisis, a millstone
about the neck of our country.”

He said the purpose of the con-
gress was to “pursue the enemy into
every Nazi German-American news-
paper office, into every Nazi Ger-
man-American church and into ev-
ery Nazi German-American home
in the United States” to “drive Hit-
lerism out of this country.”

Bcn Solonne”

“
‘

wiegeden Michrheit, den
iidjen Pringivien der Bere
tacten in Treue crgeben jin
3 fic) mit aller Entidiedenheit
itten, mit den. Wimtrieben der ,.1
it threr Gelanube
Dentijigiert 3u mwarden, war oer rie™y
ror der Anipraden, Die anlaplal
‘ner pom ,,@erman American Con }&
mre jor Lemocracy” im Sotel Ca-
itol, 51. Str. uwd 8. Wve., einberu-

enen Rundgebung gebalten mourden, 2-6050

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Dr. Franf Bon, BWajhington,
Order tur Qcifamtiersnde Natio-
alvorfigende de3  Wmerican Con-
nrep, jowie Redattemr Gerhart S.
eger, : Witghed der National-Ere-
utive,. aware di¢ Hauptredner der
Berjanimlune

Seger gab der Peinung Wusdrud,
ap auf der fontinenden priedens-
onjereng Mmerifa, ‘infolge {einer
adtvotien wirtidgajtliden “Beden-
ling, dic wejentliden Beitrage fiir Frie-
en und Fretheit gu leiften haben rwerde.
Der Redner behauptete fodann: ,,Den
Peutidy - Umerifanern fallt die verant-
ortung3volle Mufgabe: gu, die @rund-
gen fiir die gtueite deutide Republi gu
gen, deren Gejtaltung und Feitigung
nter Ben bverrheerenden Wustwirhingert
e3 Verfailler Betages im Laufe von
4 Xahren unmoglidd gu betwerfitelligen
etvejen ijt.”

Veber die bisher geleijtete Arbeit des
merican Congreg foie iiber die Ver-
lidtung eines jeden Deutfdj-YUmeita-
bers, an der Durchfiihrimg der Wufgaben
iejer Oraganifationen mitguarbeiten,
pradjen twetterhin Nationaliefretar Con-
ad YWolfel und Frau Yinn Sdhiiwe, wah-
end Sr. G. ¥. Bronijdh, Summit, MN.
, iiber die Aufbauarbeit des Biwcig-
erbandeS in New Yerjey ausfiihrlicen
Bericht erftattete.

CONRAD WOELFEL,

NEW YORK, March 3.—(P)— :

EXECUTIVE BOARD
DR. FRANK BOHN, Chairman

Secretary

ERNST CONRADT, Treasurer
PETER EHLEN, Recording Secretary

an Jast night by the first n

Germ oat

gent#P American Congress

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German American Congress for Democracy, Inc.

OFFICE OF NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD
1133 Broadway, Room 210, New York, N. Y.

U.8. GERMANS OFFER
ANTI-NAZI SERYICE

An organization to mobilize the
loyalty of Americans of German
birth or German ancestry, similar
to one that rendered effective serv-
ice to the nation in the World War,
will hold its first national confer-
ence here Sunday, with speakers
representing the Federal Depart-

ment of Justice, the Department of
Labor and the Attorney General of
New York State.

Started last June as the German-
American Congress for Democrecy,
it has satisfied the public investi-
gating authorities that it will ren-
der the service it proposes, in un-
covering saboteurs and spotting
totalitarian agents, and in generally
protecting the foreign policy of the
administration by combating Hitler
propaganda among 20,000,000 Amer-
icans of German blood.

he five patrolmen al-

ty, and the crowd of
as dispersed.
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ed to three during the |

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By order

EXECUTIVE BOARD
GERHART SEGER, ist Vice-Chairman
ARNO SPERLING, 2nd Vice-Chairman
TONI SENDER, 3rd Vice-Chairman
HERMAN LUEHRIG, 4th Vice-Chairman

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| HITLER SPENDING
| MILLIONS IN U. S

New York, March 3 (AP)—Dr
Frank Bohn, chairman of the
man American. -for De
mocracy, asserted yesterday that
Adolf Hitler was spending millions
of dollars in the United States ‘tq
poison the German-American sec
tion of public opinion.”

‘yam ashamed to admit,” Dr
Bohn told the first national con
i ference ‘of, the organization, “that
l® the great Middle West the Ger
I raanized section of American opin
lion is, in the present. crisis, a mill
| stone about the neek of our coun
“He said the purpose of the Con
gress was to “pursue the enemy in
te every Nazi German-American
newspaper office, into every Nazj
German-American church and zy

to

tésevery Nazi German-Ameri
helte in the United States” |
ea ag Bitlevigmout of this: couk-

A telegram from Wendell L.
Willkie, read, at the session, con-
gratulated members on their op-
position to Nazi totalitarian philo-
sophy.”

The conference was attended by
delegates from 19 large cities.

NEW YORK
ERALD TRIBUNE,

German-Born

In U. S. Rallied.

pericad .
wine To Aid Defense

ToldTheyAreDuped byNazi
Propaganda ;DriveOpens
to Counteract Subversion

Warned by conference speakers
that Americans of German descent,
especially in the Midwest, are being
duped by Nazi propaganda into las-
gitude on national defense, dele-

Rdigates to the first national confer-

ence of the Geerman American
Congress for Democracy, held yes-
terday at the Hotel Picca ly, 227

diwest Forty-fifth Street, indorsed a

program of counter-propaganda de-
signed to reduce the un-American
influence.

Members spurred by encourage-
ment from various officials resolved
to prove to the nation that men and
women of German origin could be
united against Hitlerism. As Dr.

sport Frank Bohn, national chairman of
the congress, put it, “You and I
Hknow that the majority of the Ger-

man people themselves are against
}Hitler, in their hearts.”

This being the case, he asserted,
the bulk of German descendants in
this country would rally to the anti-

I} Nazi movement if Nazi propaganda

expenditures could be counteracted
by spreading the truth about Nazism

Miand its drawbacks. “We propose to
Sicry out these great truths,” he de-

clared, “and if the world accepts
them Hitler will die out of his own
'accord.”

Dr. L. M. Birkhead, national di-
rector of the Friends of Democracy,
who discussed subversive activities,
stated primary objectives as clearing
the name of “German-Americans”
and attacking subversive elements.

“It’s time for all Americans to
stand up and be counted on one side
or the other,” he said as he as-
sailed Henry Ford and Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh as holders of Nazi dec-
orations. Col. Lindbergh, he said,
“writes and talks like a Nazi.”

“J would say that Col. Lindbergh,
talking as he has been,” he added,
“ought to be registered with the
government as an agent of a foreign
government.”

Dr. Birkhead counted “fifteen to
twenty million” Nazi sympathizers
in the United States, and estimated
that Naxi propaganda here was

fifty times the pro-British agita-!

tion.

Wendel] L. Willkie, 1940 Repub-:
lican Presidential candidate, who is!
descended from German stock, sent:
the following telegram to the con-
ference: “I am happy to congratu-"
late the German American Congress
for Democracy. I understand its
membership is composed of people
of German descent who reject ut-
terly Nazi totalitarian philosophy
and are in full-hearted accord with
the necessity of the United States
assisting the free countries of Eu-
rope to resist and defeat the aggres-
sors on their freedom. My congrat-
ulations and best wishes."

A message of support also was re-
ceeived from A. A, Berle jr., Assist-
ant Secretary of State.

Speakers at an afternoon meeting
{ncluded Dr. Alfred Brauntha}, for-’
mer German trade union leader,
who described as “serfdom” the po-

German American Congress for Democracy, inc, -
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RADLO DiVisiN, WO. 5; J, F. Ferrand, eo LAE Bt «
pate i Ss Srtor He

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A le ag ee hii a ce OO j
Sg Report on the Tendencies of the German radio.

May ll, 1942.
NAZI U-BOAT WAR FAILS.

We indicated in the AIR NE‘’S NO.1 of
April 8, 1942, that the German station
Zeesen broadcasts SPECIAL MESSAGES in
several languages TO TH! SaILORS OF
NEUPRAL AND OCCUPIED COUNTRIES,

This special propaganda the danger of which ought not to be
underestimated is intensified more and more by the Nazis. This
week that propaganda has reached its highwater mark in broadcasting

several times a day in different languages.
TMPORTANT LiEBSSAGES FOR THE SAILORS,

May 9, 1942, at 11:15 P,li, for example the following "Important
message for the Norwegian seaman" was broadcast:

"Since the Norwegian ships, which sail for England or
for the Allies are continuously torpedoed - either in
the Atlantic, Pacific or in the Indian Ocean - the
situation in Norway after the war will be such, that
the Norwegian marine will practically have disappeared.
This will be an enormous loss for Norway, since the
Norwegian fleet represents the greater part of the
Norwegian national resources,

It_is therefore the patriotic .c duty of every Norwegian
sailor to immediately enter the nearest Axis Harbor,-

either alone or with his ship. The ship will not be
considered as contraband,

Ever ry seaman, regardless of his position in the crew
wiil receive the sum cf 500CO krcners and the equivalent nt

of three years wages. He will receive furthermore every
a)

wie

"cent of the money which might be confiscated by the

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Aliies. the money will be paic at his arrival in Norway.

Relief to his family will be =csumed immediately if

aushentie news of the sailors arrivai in an Axis
harbor will be received,

The appeal was signed by the Norwegian shippers
Association,”

This devilish propaganda, which works once again with the net
infamous methods in trying to corrupt the sailors in promising
them money, while, on the other hand, they are blackmailed, me7its
to be exposed. The sailors are given to understand that their
families are needy and that they will get reliet? only if the
Sailors comply with this invitation to descrt.

Similar "invitations" arc scent out - with little variations -
to sailors of other nations in Greek, Serbian and other languages.
This proves that the Nazis are not fully satisfied with the results
of their submarine warfare und that they seem to feel that U-boats
arc not cnough. Therefore they arc forced to use such methods.

Wwe take it for granted that the grcat majority of thc sailors
will not fall for this swindle, but anyway we ought to fight this
propaganda. This should not be too difficult, as cxpericnce
abundantly proves that no promise of this sort has ever bcen kept
but that those who fell for them, remained to be his docilc
slaves, No doubt that the 5th columnist will use and spread in-
tensively these "invitations". The Nazi radio also trics stre-
aucusly to influence the sailors by other mcthods,.

May 6, 1942, the following news was broadcast:

"Sailors arriving in Lisbon from the United statcs declare
that in America and especially in New York harbor, Negroes
are pressed for these voyages for the Allies. Ir they
refuse they are mistreated bestially by the police:

"Ncw Foundland is nothing but an cnormous cemetery of ships.
Not Less than 60 damaged ships are buried there."

These are only some examples of the way in which the sailors are
systematically goaded on against the Allics. Another method
which is used to influence the sailors and the citizens of the
occupied countries of Europe, especially those who are now spread
all over the world, = is to demonstrate the participation of

every European nation in xkz

| THEIR"CRUSADE aG.INST BOLSHEVISN".
The following speech by a Dutchman May 7 at 7 P.M, in a broadcast

for South Ameriea of Radio Zccsen is a fair sample:
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"It is a tragic error that at the beginning of this war
German soldiers have fought against Dutch soldiers, This
front in Burope could only exist because others wanted to
use the Dutchman's blood for their own interests.

"The first Durchman to fight at the side of their German
comrades participated in the Balcanic campaign, Wher

soon after the "Crusace of Nationalsocialism against
Bolshevism" began, a wave of enthusiasm flooded all

Hurope, Europe was united again after months of dissention,
And all Dutchmen realized at the Rastern Front that their
little nation together with the other Nordic fighters are
the symbol and the guaranty of the peace of Europe.

"Every Dutchman is proud to read in the cemeteries of the

heroes of the Nordic race the names of Dutehmun next to
the names of other Germanic fighters.

"When on the Eastern Front a group of German soldiers was
Surrounded, Dutch, Norwegian and Flemish comrades did not

rest untii they got the orders to get their German comrades
out of trouble,

"The Voice of the Blood" and the call of our hearts Showed
us the way to Adolf Hitler”.

This disgusting dwaddle goes under the title:"Dutch volunteers
in the fight against Bolshevism",

It is all the more ridiculous in the light of the repeated
and thoroughly miscarryineg attempts to organize these anti-
bolshevist brigades", Armies were expected but only a few hundred
dupes actually appeared at the Hastern front,

It should, however, not be .said that these bombastic words
are too stupid to be dangerous, ....This was the attitude which zg
caused the astounding inactivity before the growing flood of
Goebbels propaganda, Nothing is too Stupid in this world not to
deceive somebody. Of course, not only the Dutchmen but repre-
Sentatives of all European nations are dragged before the Nazi
microphones to manifest the Same brand of enthusiasm, That
Propaganda motif was started by Hitler himself in his last speech
wnen he praised the"volunteers of all Huropean nations fighting
at the Eastern Front". The news

"that the famous Belgian Quisling, Leon Degrelle, has
received the fron Cross for his bravery on the Hastern
Front as a Corporal"

is in the same lins,

One of the most suceessful of Nazi vreopaganda tactics has
always Dean the continuous repetition of such propaganda lines,
It is high time to chengs cur poltey of the aqays when each Huropean

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aa nit av oss deien it necessary to pay attention to

these IPSS and even less to fight them with ell the means at
their @spysel, thus making it vossible that these stupid
Propsainca stunts were effective,

e

i ;
Rater ‘than to despise propaganda as a weapon, more
positive means must be adopted, hen the enemy uses ‘poison
Gas against us - a weapon we consider irhynar - we must protect
ourselves against it, no matter what oir oersonal opinion may
be. Indeed, as Mr. Church:l’ pointed out, it would be almost
Suicide not to use poison gas ourselves whenever any.onc of
our Allies were attacked,

The sea battle in the Coral sea is described by the German radio
ee te En the voral sea

as a "great victory of Japan which has caused rejoicing in
Berlin",

"Although the “hole Anglo-American press and radio
Stations try to twist the meaning of this "catastrophic
defeat" into a victory of the Allies, a great feeling
of insecurity and fear reigns in England and in the USA.

"The only station which said the truth, this time, was
Radio Boston, which told the Americans to beware to
count with a victory." (May 9, at 6:30 P.M.

May 10 at. 6:45 P.M. the following"description" of the American
morale was given,

"The American population is very tense,

"The New York Times declares: the whole country 4s
between fear and hope,"

"The American Government prepares the public opinion
for great losses,"

The communication of the Navy Department is called:" a poor
dementi".

optimism, ‘+he Japanese can lowse a certain number of
warships without Lomsing the domination of the Pacific,
The Yankce only boasts, ....That ridiculous Yankee-
flush of victory will be followed by correspondingly
low spirits, exactly as after the battles of Java and

On May 11 at 1:45 A.M,

Radio Zeesen is deliberately lying the
following: :

"The Japanese fleet is pursui

ng the beaten American
fleet in the Coral pea."

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At 9:15 A.M. of the same date, Zeesen fecls ecompclled to
report <

"The operations in the Coral Sca have come to a
standstill".

It is typical that thc Nazis insist to dwell morc ana more

on the evcnts in the Far East. They do this apparcntly bccause
they cannot report the smallest success on thcir own fronts,
The follwing Stereotype phrase is now always used in reporting
on the Eastern Front: "Local attacks of cnemy forees were
repulsed by our troops,"

This would be an excellent occasion to indicate in our
propaganda that this phrase peculiarly rcminds us of the famous
refrain of the World War I communiqués: ALL QUIET ON THE YESTERN
FRONT,

Regarding the spcech of ‘inston seep ill, Sunday aftcrnoon,
Radio Zeesen maintainca perfect Silencc,Monday morning at 9:15
A.M. when it gives a brie? Summary in its usual manner, but

without evcn mentioni th roblem of chemical
Warraie and poison gas,

strcesscd so strongly by the British Prime Minister,

TO OUR FRIENDS:

Gratified by the favorabls response to
our request to lct us know whether or
not thc recipients of these releases
wish to have them continued, we again
urge those of our friends who have not
already done so, to inform us of their
reactions to this analysis of Nazi pro-
paganda., A number of the answers were
accompanied by enclosures of checks,

We take this opportunity to thank these
friends for their kind donations which
were most neccessary for the continuance
of this work and all the morc welcome,

GERMAN AMERICAN CONGRESS
FOR DEMOCRACY, INC,
Radio Division,