The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Mounts . CermQnS Cry Woes
 To Tanks
BY J. B. McDERMOTT-


 Frankfurt. Dec. 4.-UP)-The German people are drifting into despair that already has generated widespread hatred of the Americans and may lead to bloody rebirth of Nazism.
 That is the gist of report sub- nitted to American Military gov- ernment authorities on an exhauS- tive survey conducted by Army counter-intelligen egenas in the United States occupation zone.
 The Germans know they have been beaten by superior force, but they know they have not been crushed, and they are beginning to believe their hope lies in Nazism, communism or armed violence.
 Hate Americans
 They hate the Americans for fraternizing with their women, for failing to provide more food, for not curbing the lawless OutrageS of displaced persons, and, above all. for not offering them some concrete hope for the future.
 Intelligent Germans questioned by
 
 iation is becoming increasingly rest less as a result of the apparent in- difference of U. s. occupation authorities to their problems.
 There is whispered talk of or ganizing vigilante committees to deal with the bands of foreign dis placed persons who roam the coun- tryslde footing and killing. Such movement undoubtedly would lead to armed clashes that might in- volve American troops.
 American Conquerors
 Quick to forget that they were enemies only six months ago, the Germans now plead:
 You Americans must end this You must help US rebuild. You will ruin us and yourselves if you do not give us hope"
 They forget Gen. Dwight ID. Eisenhower's prOcamatiOn to his troops when entered Germany. when he declared that the Ameri- cans were cOnquerOrs not ibera- tors.
 The Germans welcomed the Americans at first because their coming meant an end to the air raids, tension and privation. They were tired of Nazi tyranny. But today they say they are still with out hope, that the Nazis at least promised them something, whereas the Americans offer nothing.
 Three Differene Waves
 An unidentified leader of the Christian Social Union told the American investigators that there were three vastly different waves of political thought sweeping Ger many.
 FIRSTLY, and foremost is a trend toward COMMUNLSM. Ger man observers feel the people are erasping at this straw with a des- perate, what have we got to lose attitude.
 SECONDLY, is a revival ot NAI- ISM. Secret Nazi proponents tell the people that Hitler's prediction that the Allies would destroy Ger many is coming true.
 National Socialism is not dead one German psychologist told the Americans. Tt will live because it brought out the wishes and in- stincts of the German people. Hit Ter and Goebbels simply prom ised the German people what they wanted and even made them think they got it.'
 Fear Their Fate
 Paradoxically with all then growing hatred for the Americans, the Germans fear that the United States may soon abandon Europe and leave them to an even bleaker fate.
 Privately. the Germans still are convinced they were right in thelr war against Russia. Many of them still crusade secretly against Bol- sheyism and are unable to under stand why the Americans cooperate with the Soviet Union.
 Smoldering beneath their outward acceptance of defeat is a bitter re- sentiment of the Allied attitude that all Germans must accept some share of the responsibility for the acts of Nazism.
 Blame Americans
 They feel that the German na- tion never will receive credit for it's good works. They are inclined to blame the Americans for not stepping in earlier to check the evil leaders of Nazism before they could plunge the world into war.
 The Germans wholeheartedly be- l.eve they have already paid suf- ficiently for their sins.
 Twelve of our men died TOT every Jew executed in the concen- tration camps" they point out.