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Military government weekly information bulletin
No. 37 (April 1946)
Press comments, pp. 13-19
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(7)ress ciomments .J CISe = AM-ERICAN^ PRESS FINDS HITLERD'S POISONS TILL PODTENT The American press in recent editorial comment on mass arrests in Germany of Nazi Youth leaders generally regarded this move as extremely important and as evidence that re-education of Germany is a problem of primary importance. "When Hitler died his ideas and the mass 'of his followers did'not die with him "warns the Washington Star. "Bri- tish and American raids rounded up ab!out 1000, Germans suspected of a plot to =__ __ keep' Nazi the move- ment alive for 'an leventual comeback, but this number,. as Intelligence officers suggest, probably re- presents -but a fraction of the total still militantly attached to the Fuhrer's doc- trines. In all likelihood there will be more raids later on. War crushed merely the machine with which the . Reich sought 'to impose its 'will upon the world: it did not wipe out the philosophy of "Mein Kampf" for change the hearts and minds 'of its devotees . "By rounding up Germans engaged in an underground conspiracy to make the most of the mental poison left'behind by Hitler, the Allies can do much, on a short-term basis, to head off serious trouble and prevent Nazis still at large from terrorizing those who sincerely wish to cooperate with the victors in an effort to rebuild Germany along democratic lines. But raids can meet only one aspect 'of the problem. The task of putting an Vend to Naziism is. something that will take years to accomplish even under the most favorable circumstances .nd these circumstances do not now exist. "... If the German problem is ever to 'be solved, the Allies will have to work together on it with fullest cooperation, acting firmly and withivision to eliminate 'promptly any condition likely to cause grief five, ten or fifteen years from now." LET'S FACE IT NOW After discussing earlier warnings *of rebirth. of Hitlerism in the Reich, the Salt.Lake City, Telegram said: "It is a somber and disheartening pic- ture. But we had better face it frankly - face it now rather than 20 or 30 years from -now when it may be too late... "Certainly we are going to have to do something to counter this menace. We dare not -quit Germany until we have wiped out the militarism, the arrogance, the lust for revenge in hearts of Germans. It may take us a long time to do that. It may take a lot of effort. It may require for many years services for occupation duty in Germany 'of several hundred thou- sand American soldiers. But that surely is preferable to another war. It is preferable to the services in another terrible war of many millions of American boys and the death perhaps of millions of American soldiers and sailors and civilians in a catastophic atomic 'bomb Armageddon." RE-EDUCATING GERMANY Steps reportedly being taken by the US to drop its program for educating Germans to democratic ways, asserts the Miami Heraldj "... is a disillusioning 13 -
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