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...Paul Ausborn bought a farm in Saskatchewan. He tried to forget politics, but what he had learned in Germany haunted him. When Hitler came into power, Ausborn sold his farm, went to Winnipeg and devoted all his time to organizing an anti-Nazi movement among Canadians of German descent. For a while he was successful. Then the German Consulate organized a Bund in Winnipeg and financed a violent Nazi newspaper. Ausborn was beaten up by Bundist thugs. Once he made an effigial tombstone for Hitler, which was to be carried in a May Day parade. Police made him take...
With the $3,000 he got for his farm gone and with no job open to him, Ausborn had to go on relief. Every extra dollar he could scrounge he put into more pamphlets. He warned newspapermen, police and the Canadian Legion of the Bundists in their midst, and of Hitler's plans for conquest. They paid even less attention to him after he came back from fighting as a volunteer for Loyalist Spain; he was called a Red and a troublemaker. Most of his family turned against him. Embittered and socially ostracized they asked...
When World War II broke, Ausborn tried to get a job as ordinary seaman in Canada's merchant marine. He was no longer called a Red and a troublemaker. Now he was a German. He was turned down, and so was his son when he tried to join the army...
...Paul Ausborn's health was gone and his spirit almost broken. A few friends kept him going. There was none of the heroics, none of the comradeship and excitement of the European underground movements in what he did. There was only disillusionment and a feeling of futility. Yet Ausborn kept on, hoping that some day he would be vindicated...
Last week the war against Adolf Hitler had created such a manpower shortage in Canada that Paul Ausborn, who has devoted 20 of his 50 years to fighting Hitler, got a job as a seasonal laborer in a Winnipeg sugar-beet plant...