Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-11-25
Germany Should Be Compelled To Make Restitution
To Peoples PIundered And EnsIaved

Nazi Germany has developed the plumber of occu-
pied countries into important economic asset and ex
ports from these countries giving considerable assist
in prolonging the war.
War indernnities from Nazi-occupied countries are
estimated at $4,SOOO0O0OO year by Dingle Foot Par
amentary Secretary of the British Ministry of Eco
nomcs.
In occupation costs and other charges, the Ger
mans are believed to have secured more than $l2 800
100000 In addition, something like $5,200 100000 in
exports have been paid in block Marks the Nazi manpu
lated money.
The Nazi regime is not only exhausting the nat
ural of Germany but it is systematically de-
petng the wealth of all regions under German control
The extent to which this is underway is seen in the
Swedish dispatch which says that the Nazs have started
to requstion furniture and household goods from
pied countries for the use of German bombedout fam-
lies.
Hermann Goering that Germany would be the last
European nation to suffer in this It is carried out
without regard of the needs of other peoples or their
suffering.
The Germans do not hesitate to transfer helpless
peoples into form of slavery Separated from their
homes and families the helpless individuals trans
ported into Germany to labor in production units and
thus the interests of the sestyled master
We call attention to these facts because when the
ends the question of PREPARATIONS will inevitably arise
Every principle of justice demands that the German peo
pie be compelled to return the plumber and when this is
impossible replace it.
Just as it has taken Germany more than four years
to exploit the conquered nations and occupied areas, it
may take them four years or more to make restitution
Regardless of how many years it requires how many
Germans have to in labor battalons, full payment
and complete restitution must be required.
This does not express any policy of revenge. In the
MAN, is not inspired by any desire to punish the Ger
people, It is elementary justice to compel thieves
when possible to return their loot 1t is act of simple
justice to the millions who have been robbed by the Na
regime since the present war began.
To require Preparations, in cash and in time,
period of years. will go far to teach the German people,
nation that freebooting, does not pay Regardless
of the fact that there good Germans the nation as
whole supported Hitler in his aggression, enjoyed his
successes and shared in his l-gotton material gain.
The German nation used force in the acquisition of
its plumber and by force necessary it should be
qured to compensate innocent persons who have been
the victims of oong that accepted policy of the
Nazi regime.
We understand that when France collapsed, the
amount of the indemnity, fixed by the Germans,
set at the level of French expenditures for Hit
Ter assumed that if the French could spend the money
for they could spend the for reparatons
The same logic applies to the question of postwar
reparatons. If Hitherto Germany expend its men.
materel and money in long and costly war, there is
reason why the German people cannot make similar
expenditure to make effective restitution in accordance
with elementary principles of justice.