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MILLER:
Abbeville... the coast of France... January 1941,...
HUGO:
Ach! ' Tis nice to drop a hook into the water again, eh. Jacques --
JACQUES: Even
knowing the Nazis have dragged the Somme and taken every fish does not
matter... a man does not need fish to fish.
HUGO:
Oui! A little line... a pole... and even if only a bent pin...
JACQUES: Hugo!
HUGO: Oui...
--
JACQUES: I think --
HUGO: You
have caught something. Jacques, you have caught a fish... even a little
one.
JACQUES: Non...
a big one. Feel.
HUGO: Jacques, that is not a fish.
JACQUES: Non?
HUGO:
Look there... in the water.
JACQUES: A
log.
HUGO: A
body. Look there are many of them...
JACQUES: Many
of them. Hugo, we must leave this place. Come!
MUSIC: BANG IN...... HOLD AND FADEOUT BEHIND
BOY: Shall
we stop on the bridge, Marie?
GIRL: They
say if you throw a sou in the Somme right at this spot any wish you make
will come true. May I have a sou, Achille?
BOY: Shall
I throw it?
GIRL: Throw
it over there, Achille. (SUDDENLY) Achille!
BOY:
Something?
GIRL: There.
In the water.
BOY: Lots
of them. Corpses, non?
GIRL: Achille
what does it mean?
BOY: I
don't know. I think we are in danger. Come.
MUSIC: BANG IN... HOLD AND FACE OUT BEHIND:
PILOT: For
the last time, Marchell, take your cart and go away... there is no room
here.
MARCHELL: The
Nazi told me to bring them here. You know what will happen if I disobey.
PILOT: What
can I do with them...the morgue is packed to the rafters already.
MARCHELL: You must take them. It will be bad for you too.
PILOT: Very
well, how many do you have?
MARCHELL: Fourteen.
PILOT: All
from the river?
MARCHELL: The
Somme.
PILOT: Nine
hundred bodies in the Somme this month... what in the world is happening?
MUSIC:
BANG IN... HOLD AND FADE OUT BEHIND:
NAZI: (EFFICIENT, QUIET NAZI) You
will make your report please, Herr Pilot.
PILOT: 876
at my morgue, if you please.
NAZI: Space
in and 76. Gut! 876 plus 12,094. You are excused.
PILOT: If
you please, monsieur. What happened? Somme many --
NAZI: Suicide.
PILOT: 12,000
-- suicides?
NAZI: The
French are a peculiar race. They are like sheep. When one sees another
doing something -- well --
PILOT: There
must be something wrong. Those I examined had been hit on the head. Dead
before they were in the water.
NAZI: Really.
Herr Pilot, perhaps you need a geography lesson. The Somme is full of
rocks. If one were to jump into the river he would surely crack his head
on the rocks. Come, I will show you how simple it is.
MUSIC: BANG IN FULL... DOWN AND OUT BEHIND:
MILLER: Conceivable?
You need proof? I have proof. The German controlled newspaper Nouveaux
Temps published in occupied Paris reported on the 16th of January, 1941
and I quote, "half the population of the town of Abbeville on the
Channel coast has disappeared in a strange suicidal wave that caused the
inhabitants of this town to throw themselves into the Somme chapter."
Suicide indeed! The Germans admit that autopsies of the bodies reveal
that nearly all of the so-called suicides had been hit on the head with
a blunt instrument. Now why were the people of Abbeville depopulated?
Because Abbeville is a channel town needed to house troops for possible
invasion of Britain and because the once prosperous town is to become
German.
MILLER:
But there are other ways of Nazi depopulation...less melodramatic. Just
as efficient, starvation... exposure... disease... In conquered Greece,
which never had enough food, starvation was the method.
NAZI: My
orders are to requisition all the food in this house, Fraulein.You will
gather everything edible and place it on the table here. Hurry!
GIRL:
We have nothing to give you. We are poor.
NAZI: Very
well. I will search myself.
GIRL: But
I am telling the truth. All we have is a few potatoes.
NAZI: Collect
them at once. The German army of occupation is requisitioning all the
food in Greece. You will be made no exception.
GIRL: But it's all we have. What will we eat?
NAZI: I am sorry, Fraulein. But you must realize that there are at present
twice as many Greeks as we need here. Half must die. The rich shall become
poor and the poor shall die. That is our policy.
MUSIC: BANG IN AND OUT AGAIN :
MILLER: Incredible? Want proof? Then see Time magazine for November 24th,
1941 p. -- -- and it's not only to Greece that starvation is being applied
as an instrument of extermination...... but to Poland, Czechoslovakia
and Norway as well. Yet, this is only a fragment of the story of Nazi
depopulation. Scientific extermination reaches its most pitiless aspects
in the Slavic and East Baltic states which Hitler has relegated to the
lowest position in his hierarchy of race. Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf :
HITLER:
"Our eastern policy will remain an idle dream unless a planned policy
of colonization and depopulation are carried out. The great danger for
the white Nordic race is the tremendous fertility of the East Baltic races,
which like everything inferior, makes up for poor quality by greater quantity."
MILLER: So
Poland is to be depopulated? How?
SOUND: RAILROAD
YARD SOUNDS.
NAZI: The
freight cars are loaded, Oberlieutenant
NAZI 2: I have orders to hold the train Our freight is increased by three
hundred..
NAZI: Very well. But where will we put them. The box cars are loaded to
capacity.
2ND
Nazi: You will have to make room some place. My orders are to ship three
hundred more. Why couldn't they lie on the floor and the others on top
of them?
NAZI: Nine
hundred miles .. they would all be dead.
2nd NAZI: I
see no alternative. Here are the orders.
NAZI: Very
well then.. Three hundred more.
MUSIC: QUICK BRIDGE SOUND: TRAIN MOVING... FULL AND THEN UNDER FOLLOWING:
ONE: How
are you down there ... alive?
TWO: I
am like some cherries I saw once in a bottle.
TWO:
How many are here?
THREE: A
hundred in this car.
FIVE: A hundred in all the cars. I saw them go in.
SIX: They took ten thousand last month.
ONE: To the Reich?
SIX: To
the Reich.
FIVE: Where
do you come from?
FOUR: Warsaw. I was in business there.
ONE: I
was in business too.
FIVE: Are
there any Jews here?
THREE: I'm
a Jew.
FOUR: I
thought you had all been killed.
THREE: No.
Now they are killing the Catholics.
SIX: I
am a Catholic.
TWO: Where did you say we were going? To the Reich?
ONE: To
the Reich.
SOUND: TRAIN
NOISES UP FULL MOMENTARILY THEN BEHIND:
ONE: I
was talking to him and he choked. He's dead.
TWO: Dies
all of a sudden.
THREE: Disease?
ONE: He was from the Ghetto. They say there's typhus there.
THREE:
Typhus!
ONE:
Dead?
SIX:
I keep trying to get away but I can't. I don't like being with typhus.
ONE:
There's no use trying. You can't move.
TWO: We
must be going north. It's getting cold
THREE:
I'm shivering.
SIX: It
wouldn't be so cold if we had something to eat.
FOUR: They
gave me some bread when I came. I waited in the station two days. Every
day they gave me bread...one piece.
FIVE:
It's worse not to have water.
SOUND: TRAIN
NOISES go to hand UP FULL AND FULL TO STOP
ONE: We're
stopping.
THREE: Already?
SIX: Maybe
we're not going to the Reich. Maybe --
FIVE: I
was in a concentration camp once. It's better then this... you can find
things to eat.
SOUND: SLIDING
BOX CAR DOOR BEING PUSHED OPEN
THREE: They're
coming.
FIVE: What
are they going to do?
NAZI: (OFF AND SLIGHT ECHO EFFECT) Everybody
stay down.. Make no move toward the doors. Now, this train stops every
three hours to throw out the dead. Are there any dead here? (PAUSE, NO
ANSWER) Speak..., are there any dead here?
FIVE:Just
one..
NAZI: How
did he die?
THREE: (QUICKLY...
WHISPERED) Don't tell.
NAZI: What
was that?
FIVE: I
just said he just died.
NAZI: Disease?
FIVE: No.
He fought and the others killed him.
NAZI: Good.
Throw him out.
SOUND: TRAIN STARTS AGAIN AND TO BG AS BEFORE
ONE: Why
did you say that?
FIVE: If
he knew it was disease he would have killed us all.
FOUR:
Typhus.
THREE: Where
did you say we wore going, to the Reich?
FIVE: (POSITIVELY)
To the Reich.
MUSIC: BANG IN AND OUT BEHIND
MILLER: Since
the beginning, the Nazi solution of the Polish and Jewish problems along
the new Eastern frontier has been much the same. The greater part of Poland
is to be German and is being provided with a new set of German landlords.
The Germans need, however, Polish laborers to operate their estates, but
this number is far smaller than the existing population, so the surplus
has been hurried out of the country. There has been no adequate attempt
to provide food, shelter or employment for these people. They have been
dying like flies. This, of course, is what the Nazis want. It reapportions
the population along lines more agreeable to them It gives the Germans
slave-labor---- and if Hitler's victory is permanent, this slave labor
would permit him to undersell every other country in the world. Fantastic?
Unbelievable? Not at all! The best evidence of all is in the writings
and speeches of Adolph Hitler himself. In Hermann Rauschning's book, The
Voice of Destruction, on page 137, we find the following speech by Adolph
Hitler----
ORGAN:
BASE... UNDER HITLER: (FILTER) We
are obliged to depopulate as part of our mission of preserving the German
population. We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation. If you
ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the removal of entire racial
units. And that is what I intend to carry out. If I can send the flower
of the German nation into war without the smallest pity for this spilling
of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions
of the inferior race that breeds like vermin."
ORGAN: SHARP MINOR CHORD
MILLER: You Can't Do Business with Hitler!
ORGAN: D MINOR CHORD
ANNOUNCER: You have been listening to the fifth broadcast in a series
entitled "You Can't Do Business with Hitler," based on the experiences
of Douglas Miller who was for 15 years commercial attaché to the
American Embassy in Berlin. Listen for the sixth episode in this series
which is entitled "The Spoils of Europe." Douglas Miller reveals
the NAZI technique of plundering and looting conquered lands. This transcribed
program written by Elwood Hoffman and directed by Frank tell Ford was
brought to you by the Radio Section of the Office for Emergency Management
in Washington.
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