English Translation

4 This class included the trial of three German students in the summer of 1925, who were only arrested and sentenced to death, so that they could be offered after the then Reichsregierung as exchange objects for the GPU murder Skoblewski sentenced to dead by the Reichsgericht in Leipzig. Or it was necessary to annoy a foreign government whose attitude the Soviet government did not agree with. Then comes the large group of those processes, which have the sole purpose of finding scapegoats for the failure of the Bolshevik economic methods. These kinds of processes have become known in the country under the slogan "Schädlingprozess". The last and largest group of trials, however, is that of the extermination and public defamation of all real or presumed or even possible opponents of Stalin. 2. The struggle on the "Silent Ocean". Economic Area of Greater Asia. A roughly hundred-year predominance of the Anglo-Saxon capitalist powers in the Far East is to be replaced today. This supremacy stood on the. weakness, on the collapse of China, once the most powerful empire of the earth, and it is contested by the meanwhile ascended to the great power of Japan, which makes itself the bearer and champion of the idea that East Asia belongs only to the East Asians. The moment seems favorable in that the leading Anglo-Saxon power is involved in a struggle for death and life, and two other colonial powers of the Far East have already collapsed: France and the Netherlands. As a result, the entire abominable fabric in the Far Eastern is shaken. Siam has changed to Thailand in a similar national renewal to Japan and claims to be French-Indochina. The whole hinterindian area was formerly part of the magical realm of Khmer, whose temple ruins we still admire today in the primeval forests; but it also belonged to the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 19th century, the colonial empire of China under the Ming and Manchu dynasty, at the time of its largest national expansion, extended China's economic interests even to Java, Su'utra and the Indian East Coast. It is also understandable, therefore, that today, under Japanese leadership, the idea emerges again that this whole space should form an economic unity: the grand-ostasiatic space, as it was called in the three-power pact. In fact, nature has blessed precisely that area with all the goods and treasures of the earth on which today the Anglo-Saxon powers and the structures dependent on them try to hold hands with tenacious obstinateness. The rubber and tin from here have almost world monopoly, pure oil springs flow, the possibility of cotton production is very large, rare ores such as tungsten and antimony are found, stimulants such as tobacco, tea and coffee grow abundantly, not to mention the spices that have made that area famous in the world; the whole room supplies itself with rice, sugar and oil. But - to the great T il it is still undeveloped possibilities of the future, especially in northern China and - 5 -