I skip one sentence and continue:
“This German propaganda had for its essential purpose the creation in Denmark of a nation-wide sentiment favorable to Germany and hostile to England, but it could also represent an attempt to prepare the ground for the introduction into Denmark of a Nazi system of government by collecting surreptitiously all manifestations of discontent in Denmark against the democratic regime in order to use such data as documentary proof in the event of a liberation action in the future. Thus, in January 1940, the propaganda was no longer content merely with attacking England and her methods of conducting the war, or the Jews and their mentality; but it proceeded to make serious attacks on the mentality of the government and the Danish Parliament.”
Finally, in this connection the Danish report mentions a very revealing incident:
“At the end of February 1940, the Danish police seized from a German subject, a document entitled, ‘Project for Propaganda in Denmark.’ ”
In saying this, I am summarizing the first paragraph of Page 7 of this report. This document contains a characteristic sentence. It is the last sentence in that paragraph, in German, and is in quotation marks with a French translation in parenthesis:
“It should be possible for the Legation and its collaborators to control the daily press.”
Germany did not limit herself to the use of her own subjects as agents inside the country and for carrying out propaganda, but the Nazis also inspired the organization of Danish political groups which were affiliated with the Nazi Party.
This campaign first of all found favorable ground in southern Jutland, where there was a German minority. The Germans thus were able to promote the organization of a group called Schleswig’sche Kameradschaft, or SK, which exactly corresponds to the German SA. The members of this group received military training. Likewise a group called Deutsche Jugendschaft Nordschleswig had been organized on the pattern of the Hitler Jugend.
I want to call the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that I am now summarizing the statements in the Danish report in order to avoid reading in full. These statements are developed in detail in the following chapters of the report and what I have just said is on Page 7.
This German infiltration had been completed by social institutions such as the Wohlfahrtsdienst founded in 1929 at Tinglev, and the Deutsche Selbsthilfe, founded in 1935, and also by economic organizations, the model of which was Kreditanstalt Vogelgesang, which by very clever and secret financing on the part of the Reich, had succeeded in taking over important agricultural properties.