Ideological preparation for Allied repression in Europe¶
Core Argument¶
The chapter argues that the Allied powers, in concert with the Stalinist bureaucracy, are conducting a deliberate ideological campaign to prepare the ground for the violent suppression of the German working class in the aftermath of the war. The core claim is that the Allies intend to impose an occupation regime on Germany modelled directly on Nazi methods of terror, reprisal, and execution, and that the sustained propaganda campaign vilifying the entire German people as inherently brutal “Huns” and “fascist beasts” serves to psychologically normalise this repression. The text insists that revolution in Germany is inevitable, and that Allied occupation can only delay, not prevent, the emergence of a mass movement uniting the population behind the working class in its struggle against national and social enslavement.
The chapter draws on the historical precedent of Nazi occupation policy in France and other conquered countries, arguing that the Allies are “taking a leaf out of Hitler’s book” by planning to rule Germany through the same apparatus of terror. It points to the undoubted atrocities committed by the SS and Nazi depraved elements as the ostensible excuse for collective German guilt, but exposes this as a convenient fiction. The text reminds readers that the SS first learned its sadism in action against German worker-socialists, communists, and trade unionists, and that this savagery began even before Hitler came to power. It further notes that Western democratic statesmen regarded Hitler’s oppression of the German masses with approval, as a safeguard against socialist revolution.
The polemic is directed simultaneously against two targets. First, the Allied powers, whose campaign of hatred against all Germans is exposed as a class-motivated manoeuvre to crush revolutionary potential. Second, the Kremlin, whose “rabid chauvinism and race hatred” after the Stalin-Hitler pact is presented as symmetrical with Allied policy: both are driven by fear of socialist revolution in Germany and the threat it poses to the power and privileges of the Stalinist bureaucracy. The chapter concludes that all forces of the old society are united on this question, intending to squeeze everything they can from the German masses in their own interests.