Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 26. October 3 1977

Information of the Kidnapping of German Industrialist

Information of the Kidnapping of German Industrialist

Dear Sir,

Concerning all the humanitarianism exhibited by our capitalist propaganda media about the kidnapping of a "goodie", i.e. Dr Hans Maritn Schleyer, by "baddied", i.e. "terrorists"—; the following information about a person of the same name cound be interesting.

Schleyer, Dr jur. Hans Martin,

"before 1945, junior barrister; immediately after the annexations of Austria the Reich student leader placed him in charge of the students organisation in Innsbruck: from 1941 to 1944 active in the Central Association of Industrialists in Prague: S.S. after 1945: member of the executive board of the Daimler Benz AG, Stuttgart—Unter-turkheim (Flick trust) and member of the supervisory board of several companies; vice-president of the Federal Union of German Employers' Associations and member of other employers' associations". (from p. 355 Brown Book of Nazi and War Criminals in the FR Germany and West Berlin: published by the Executive Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany, Documentation Centre of the State Archives Administration of the German Democratic Republic).

Additional Information:

"He joined the Nazi Party in 1933. He spent the war years in Prague organising Czech industry for the Nazi war machine", (from Democratic German Report 23.4.75, page 53).

".......S.S. membership number 227014". (from Democratic German Report 16.1.74, page 4).

Of course, our wonderful, truthful, democratic, capitalist,

Free

! news media does not mention any of the above mentioned information. Why should they: after all they are in business for tow reasons:
1) to propagate to the benefit of the ruling class,
2) to make money.

Yours faithfully,

F. G. Clements.