Third, the NSDAP does not have a Gauleiter of County Hessen-Darmstadt

Things have to be very bad for a party when it has to resort to such filthy and insolent falsifications in its political battles.

When the Nordwoll Company collapsed a few months ago, the Red lying press claimed that its head Lahusen had been a contributor to the Nazi movement. The big Bremen swindler Lahusen was financing the NSDAP.

The sensationalist newspapers wrote:

“Mr. G. Karl Lahusen is one of the biggest financial supporters of the NSDAP! During the Reichstag election, it was revealed that G. Karl Lahusen tolerated and supported Nazi agitators in his office.”

After the election, he gave a lot of money to Storm Troop leader Tidow.”

Who is this Mr. Lahusen? The best information comes from a letter that G. Karl Lahusen send to his friend Jakob Goldschmidt in September 1930, which the well-known financier passed on to Vorwärts In this letter, G. Karl Lahusen wrote:

“I have no hesitation in saying to you that I see the effects of the National Socialist Party as harmful to Germany’s development.”

This letter was used by the sensationalist press on 30 November 1930, the day before the city election in Bremen, as propaganda against the Nazis.

In Lahusen’s factories, there was a nasty sniffing out of Nazis, and those who were suspected of belonging to the NSDAP were fired. Storm Troop Leader Tidow made a public statement about these miserable goings on, which also refuted the lie about Lahusen’s financial support for the Nazis:

“I t is not true that Mr. Lahusen or people working for him employed or supported National Socialist agitators.

Instead, it is true that I was disciplined for being a National Socialist member of the factory council.

It is not true that I received large sums of money after the election of 14 September from Mr. G. Karl Lahusen because I was a National Socialist Storm Troop leader.

Instead, it is true that I never received even a penny from Mr. Lahusen, nor any office of the Nordwolle concern because I was the Storm Troop leader of Storm 2, Bremen, Standart II/W.E., nor as a National Socialist member of the factory council, nor as a party comrade and member of the Gauleitung of the Hitler Youth of Weser-Ems, Bremen.

Signed: Walter Georg Tidow, former factory council representative of the North German Wool Chamber and Worsted Spinning Mill in Bremen”

Party comrade Tidow has further things to say about how National Socialist workers were treated by the famed big swindler and Jewish lackey Lahusen:

As a former member of the factory council of Nordwolle in Bremen, I declare that during my membership on the factory council between July 1930 and May 1931, I endured serious attacks from the personnel department and Department “A” (Employee and Worker Questions) because I was a National Socialist. Department “A” sabotaged my election to the factory council, and despite my legitimate election, tried to remove me from the factory council, and I was forbidden to display my party membership badge.

After these reactionary circles within Department “A” did not succeed in removing me from the factory council, I was