1 88 Miracles Ahead! 



Nazi Germany's Reliance on Wood 



This nation has, until recently, lagged behind the Nazis in 

 getting full value from wood. They call it "UniversalrohstofF ' 

 the universal material and have shown that it is a source 

 of chemical raw materials which may outstrip coal, oil, and 

 mineral resources for many uses in the future. Wood can be 

 used to produce food, clothing, alcohol, plastics, rubber, and 

 numerous other products. 



How Hitler used wood in his plans for the conquest of the 

 world is brilliantly told in Dr. Egon Glesinger's Nazism in 

 the Woodpile* He reveals that when Hitler, in 1928, un- 

 earthed the fact that it was lack of essential raw materials 

 which had been the fundamental reason for Germany's defeat 

 in 1918 he became morose and sullen. Hitler realized that his 

 dream of world conquest would get nowhere so long as Brit- 

 ain and America kept exclusive control of the raw materials 

 needed by Germany. 



"It was then," writes Dr. Glesinger, "that Hermann Goer- 

 ing came forward with a new idea: 'Obviously the easiest 

 way to break the Anglo-American grip is to discover and de- 

 velop another basic raw material and to secure world-wide 

 control in that field. After long deliberation my advisers and 

 I have reached the conclusion that 'wood could become the 

 raw material for world domination.' " 



An unknown student of forestry, Johann Albrecht von 

 Monroy, was then introduced to Hitler and proceeded to 

 argue that the forests could be made to yield all the essentials 

 which Germany needed. Later Goering pointed out the two 

 reasons why wood should be chosen to become the "raw 

 material for Hitler's Thousand- Year Reich": 



i. Wood is one of the five leading commodities in world 



1 Glesinger, Egon, Nazism in the Woodpile. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill 

 Company, 1942. 



