UN General Assembly
1951

127, Under United States control, revengeful and revisionary slogans have become key motifs in the programme of the Bonn political leaders. Mr. McCloy, the American pro-consul, in his speech of 16 August 1951, promised the support of the United States Government for the German plan of revenge. It is not surprising therefore that the former hitlerite general, Frissner, elected President of the German Servicemen’s League, should be vindicating, even now, the hitlerite aggression of 1939. On 9 September last, he stated at Bonn: “I still think that the Polish expedition was necessary”. He praised the crimes committed by the hitlerite troops in the last war: “The Waffen SS units” he said “stood the test of fire. They did their duty in a spirit of sacrifice and unalloyed idealism; their behaviour was exemplary”. That is how one of the protagonists of the mew Wehrmacht attempts to efface the memory of those abominable crimes. He is trying to excuse in advance similar methods that may be used by the revived Wehrmacht. That is how the Americans, against the real interests of the German people, are creating a new Wehrmacht, a mercenary army of aggression, under the Bonn regime, and foisting on the German people war criminals like Frissner, whom they are putting in key military and economic positions.