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THE EVENING CITIZEN. Ottawa. Monday. March II, 1946. Secret Nazi Archives Restoring Operations Reveal Hitler Decided As Early As 1937-3 To Eliminate Russians As Baltic Power.

Of Lumber In Germany By William L. Shirer Special to The Evening Citizen. Copyright by the Y. Tribune Inc. MIAMI.

March 11 As you thumb through the mountains of confidential German documents captured by the Allies when the Reich fell, you come across the answers to many questions posed by all of us during the war years when Germany was a closed book, its secrete well kept even from the prying eyes of "Wild Bill" Donovan's cloak and dagger boys, not to mention the vaunted military intelligence services of the British and Russian allies. To Attack Russia jar i I tftfhp. Three Canadian-built miiis in the Lueneberg area are operated by Capt. George Johnson of Victoria, who has four prisoner-of-war companies totalling almost 1.000 men cutting pit props. Cnpt.

Gerald Fitzgerald of Kcn-ora, supervises a civilian camp working on a "timber for Britain" near Lueneberg and Capt, Jerry Rockwell of Vancouver hus a mill going at Sogeburg. Co-ordinating pit prop production throughout the British zor.e as Col. MacLaggan's hai.son officers are Capt. Bill Hamilton of Prrt AlBcrni. BC.

and Capt. Hugh Russell of Vancouver. Capt. Reg. Hudson of Barrie, Ont supervises four prisoner -of -war camps totalling 1.000 men working in the Arnsberg forests.

Capt. Charles. Fraser of Richmond. Ont has charge of stores and technical equipment and is based at Mindrn. Although th British and the United States zones have only 4.) per cent of the timber resources cf Germany they are required to provide all the timber required for Ruhr mine operations.

Col. Mac-Laggan's team is credited with producing 49 per cent of the needed amount but the current rate of production is rapidly depleting stocks. on June 21. Did the Yugoslavs, by deciding to fight, force a postponement of the date? General Haider, chief of the general staff at the time, should know. This is what he says: "The Yugoslav campaign delayed the beginning of the Russian campaign by about two months." Did the mad fuehrer have any idea of what he was getting into? Report Source For Uranium Still Mystery One of the best-kept secrets of the war and still a mystery is the source of uranium for atom bomb construction in the United States.

The popular assumption has been that it came from Canada's well-known deposits on the shores of Great Bear Lake, but recent reports indicate comparatively little uranium actually reached the United States from Canada during the war. The Eldorado mine had been closed in 1941 because the plentiful world supply of radium made uneconomical the shipping of ore to the refinery at Port Hope, Ont. The flooded shafts were pumped out and the mine rc-opened when the potentialities of the atom bomb were realized by the Munitions Department. In January, 1944, the mine was taken over by the government. Remain Mum.

Officials here are remaining mum on the amount reaching the U.S. from this source although recent reports have credited the Belgian Congo the second major source of pitchblende before tha war with providing up to 90 per cent of the uranium used in wartime. One source overlooked in speculation has been the United States itself. In peacetime, low grade radio-active ores were not exploited there because it was cheaper to buy from high-grade sources abroad. However, under the urgency of the race for atomic power supremacy, these deposits may well have been developed to such an extent they provided a fair proportion of the precious metal used In assembling the first few atomic bombs.

Resumed operations at Eldorado may not have contributed to the early bomb production, but likely the major share of the uranium stockpiles since accumulated by the U.S. has come from this source. The present workings near Great Bear and development of new ore bodies discovered in the last two By William Boss MINDEN, Germany. March 11. (CP) German prisoners-of-war and civilians under supervision of Canadian officers of the Allied military government are restoritm lumber operations in the British zone on a scale which has permitted exports to Britain and stimulated Ruhr coal production by provision of pit props.

Under Max McLaggan ol Blackville, NB, the Canadians, former members nf the Canadian Forestry Corps, have formed the nucleus of the forestry section of the control commission's food and agricultural branch. Last summer the detachment provided 2,500 tons of pit props daily, keeping 170 mines in production. A crisis had developed, resulting in 12 mines closing down, when Col. MacLaggan was asked to help. Urgent Situation.

Prisoners were put to work, factories producing forestry equipment were started, and higher author.Xies were interested in the urgency of the situation. During the last six months of 1945, 158,347 tons of pit props were sent the Ruhr. By mid-February the collieries were receiving 26,000 tons of props weekly. An experiment to determine how the Germans would work without strict supervision has been largely successful and civilians, given a large measure of independence, produced 300,000 tons. Roughly half the timber shipped to Britain in March comes from German-run camps.

In charge of providing forestry tools to both civilian and military camps is Maj. David Winskill of Wiarton, who organized the first shipments from Hamburg to the United Kingdom. Ottawa Man Helps. Capt. Tom Pickering of Ottawa supervises two sawmills established by the Canadian Forestry Corps, Pte.

E. McNulty, Ottawa; back row, Pte. P. A. Jones, Carleton Place; Gnr.

J. H. Geick, Ottawa; Pte. B. Halverson, Ottawa; Cpl.

E. R. Lackie, Smiths Falls. OTTAWA MEN RETURN The above group of soldiers were among: the more than 500 Canadian veterans who returned to Canada today aboard the American Liberty ship "John Hopkins." Left to right, front row, Pte. A.

H. Cox, Ottawa; mammals are featured with ruthless realism. Second offering was a satire on a wedding in a lower-class family, portraying the bickering, Jealousies and greed attendant upon the event. This one' was particularly funny and is a complete departure from what is generally accepted as comedy and turned out from Hollywood. Both films were Russian Miss L.

C. Withers Lois C. Withers, aged 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Withers of City View, passed away in a local hospital after a short illnefs on Saturday.

Besides her father and mother, she leaves four brothers, William cf Kingston. John, Lloyd and Siftcn. all at home; three sisters. Mrs. J.

Atchison and Mrs. W. Marchand. both of Toronto, and Dorothy at home. The body is resting at A.

E. Veitch and Son, Parkdale avenue at Gladstone, where the service will be held on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock. Rev. H. Todd will officiate.

Interment will be in Mert- Film Society Screens Interesting Pictures Membere of the Ottawa branch, National Film Society of Canada, were privileged to view two highly interesting films yesterday afternoon at an exclusive showing in the Imperial theater. The first film, directed by the well known Russian producer, Zgurbi, deals with the struggle for survival of animal life in the Kazakhstan desert, bordering the Aral Sea. People who want what they want when they want it, appre years probably will keep Canada ciate the quick service of Citizen near, if not in the forefront, of Close-ups of battles to the death operating them with German labor, vale cemetery. between all types of insects and Classified Ads. uranium production.

For instance: When did. Hitler first decide to attack Russia? Did he have any ideas what he was getting into when he made that decision? Did Yugoslav resistance really delay the beginning of the German attack on Rassla and thus contribute in no small measure to Hitler's failure to take Moscow before the advent of winter stopped his armies in December, 1941? How do Germany's best military minds explain the terrible German setback of that first winter of the Russian campaign? What did Hitler intend to do with Russia after he conquered it? Was the western front denuded of most of its strength during the first three years of the Russian war so that an Anglo-American landing in France could have been easily made at least a year earlier? What aspect of the war did the German high command fear the most as the war went into Its crucial phase at the beginning Cf 1944? These and many other questions can now be answered from the German secret archives now in American possession. General Franz Haider, chief of the general staff, in his interrogation last summer states that "the first indications that Hitler considered the possibility of a war of aggression against Russia became known from August, 1940, onward. The general staff worked intensively on the problem after its return to Zossen October 1." Decision Made in 1940 Grand Admiral Raeder, commander in chief of the German navy, in a secret memorandum dated Jan. 10, 1944.

also puts the date as August, 1940. General Jodl, Hitler's closest military confidant, In a confidential lecture to party chiefs at Munich Nov 7. 1943, remarked that Hitler confided to him during the. western campaign in the early summer of 1940 "his fundamental decision" to turn on Russia "the moment our military position made it at all possible." Raeder reveals that the general idea of an attack on Russia sprouted much earlier in the fuehrer's mind. The fuehrer," he says in his memorandum, 'very early had the idea of one day settling accounts with Russia.

In 1937-38 he once stated he intended to eliminate the Russians as a Baltic power." At any rate from August, 1940, on, "Operation Barbarossa" as the plan for attack on Russia was coded, began to supplant "Operation Sea Lion," the code word for the invasion of Britain, in the minds of the high command, notwithstanding that the battle of Britain had hardly begun. By Dec. 5, 1940, the documents show, Haider had given Hitler the general staff's plan for the Russian campaign and on Dec. 18 Hitler issued his "directive twenty-one Operation Barbarossa," which begins: "The German armed forces must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign before the end of the war against England." Yugoslavs Delayed Flans In this directive Hitler orders all preparations to be completed by May 15, 1941. Yet the German Attack on Russia got.

under way only DBi-vsom Graham 7 According to the notes, marked "most secret," of a conference his top generals on Feb. 3, 1941, he exclaimed: "When Barbarossa commences the world will hold Its breath and make no comment." But from General Haider we learn that Hitler completely disregarded the warning of the general staff that it knew little of Russia's actual strength. "When it was emphasized," General Haider writes, "that Russia's strength in military personnel was completely unkown, this was brushed aside with the remark that the important factors were quick and decisive initial blows which might cause the crumpling up of the whole Bolshevik regime. I am firmly convinced that Hitler entered the Russian campaign with the preconceived idea, which was not shared by the general staff, that Russia could be forced to make peace even in 1941. He obstinately refused to take notice of the results obtained from studying the map." Puts Blame on Hitler.

General Haider advocates an interesting explanation of what went wrong with German plans during those first crucial six months of the Russian campaign. He places the blame squarely on Hitler. After the initial objectives in Russia had been reached, he says, the general staff urged the concentration of the main German strength in the center of the front for an onslaught on Moscow around which the bulk of the Russian armies, according to German intelligence reports, were concentrating. The effect of this proposal, writes Haider, "was explosive." He relates that Hitler "prepared a counter-memorandum full of insults' 'to the general staff and ordering instead a concentration to the south for a drive into the Russian center of strength was, therefore, abandoned in favor of a second-rate undertaking." This- Haider says, proved disastrous. Kiev was taken in the south, but by the time the German armies of the center could be reformed for the attack cn Moscow it was too late.

The Russians had had time to build up great strength before their capital. And a severe winter had set in. Haider also confirms that after the German capture of Kiev, "Hitler was convinced that the Russians were militarily finished." He also reveals the astonishing fact "that Hitler at that time gave the order for the dissolution of about forty army divisions, the man power to return to industry." Hitler thought the war was as good as over. Plan To Divide Russia. There is space only to barely touch on two German documents which provide the answers to the last three questions posed above.

What did Hitler intend to do OTTAWA'S OLDEST DEPARTMENT STORE Established 1870 with Russia after the Nazi conquest? A "top secret" directive issued from the Fuehrer's, headquarters March 13, 1941, four months before the attack on Russia began, stipulates: "Russian territory shall be divided up into individual states with governments of their own. In these territories the political administration is taken care of by commissioners of the Reich who receive their orders from the Fuehrer." We have the answers to the last two questions from a confidential lecture made by General Jodl to party chiefs at Munich, Nov. 7, 1943. Prepared from documents which we also have, evidently drawn up by Hitler himself, it is entitled: "The strategic position at the beginning of the fifth year of war." It discloses that the western front was far from denuded the year before our invasion even though things were going badly in the East. In France and the lowlands German troops in the fall cf 1943 numbered 1,370,000 men, General Jodl says, and they were plentifully supplied with artillery.

Nor was the Atlantic Wall a propaganda fiction. General Jodl reports as completed 8,449 fortifications which took over five million cubic meters of concrete to build. The Atlantic Wall is far stronger than were the West wall and the Maginot line. In Denmark, he reported, the Germans had a force of 106,500 men; in Norway 315,000 men. And as the fifth year of the war began for Germany, what did her military leaders fear most? General Jodl frankly give the answer in his Munich lecture.

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