Evening star., 1949-04-24

thinking
/ searrned the Western sons
for two selic years. looking fos a
converted. enltgElened. rrgenes-
ated German and never found q
single specimen whose uansfar-
nation could be traced TO oar &C
OF hH country Those
few who have broken aNaS fCom
the mystic belief oi German raciAl
with the Selfsi1ness
and ruthlessneSs which so with II
have invariably found their new
freedom through the Bible Onts
insofar as our occupation policies
have guaranteed 10 the German
people free use Of their Bible and
other religious activities. can vs
our presence IN Germany
10 have been eftectuai i'll even
these isolated cases
Has Occupation Failed?
Whether our occupation has
peen y waste Of money and effort
depends upon the point OF view
from which We regard its purpose
II that purpose was 10 restore
incuStrially for the re-
lief OF the American taxpayer and
st the same time 10 hold Com
influence IN Western Eu-
rope TO a minimum. then our oc-
cupation must be voted = success
But IL our real purpose tand this
must certainly have been the
purpose was 10 seek out
uproot and destroy the evil seed
Of 0ermanism. which has regu-
larry erupted Through Bismarck,
Kaiser Wilhelm and Hitler. In
lust for world domination, then
our occupation must be regarded
as a total failure,
Here are three instances Of
German thinking
which prove how helpless a pure
ly physical occupation is 10 deal
with the mental problem:
MY wife and / once asked our
German neighbor in Munich. who
Is O teacher OF English In an in
terpreter's school there. why she
had never in the two years We
had known her. expressed q single
word OF regret for the known
practiced by her armies.
her Gestapo and her IS organi-
In the eastern territories
which Germany overran after
i s39. "Oh. those people meaning
the Slavic races are uneducated
people" was the quick and un-
reply. 1t reminded me
Of the German Minister of In
.erior's published statement Of
October. ls43:
What happens to . Rus
sian. q Czech. does not interest
me In the slightest. What the
nations can offer In good blood
OF our type we will take. II
necessary. by kidnapping their
children and raising them here
with us. Whether nations live
In prosperity or starve TO death
interests me only insofar as
we need them rs slaves for our
kultur. otherwise II is OF no
interest TO me"
Widows Attitude
Illustration No. 2 concerns
a German widow. Her for
ner husband was executed in
October, ls4s. by the American
authorities. He had
,een the commander OF Dschau
Concentration Camp during the
,ears i94l-is43. I was called upon
10 defend him In the trial for
nis life as q war criminal before
In American tribunal. His SEN
,ence to death. which followed
lfter Q trial based upon recog-
lixed judicial processes. WAS ap-
,ealed and reappeaied for two
years. and even taken to the
supreme Court OF the United
States. But these lessons in demo-
ratio or American justice we're
as far as this German
woman was concerned She still
accuses US Of having murdered
Ter ''innocent" husband. The day
after he had been hanged she
wrote TO me as follows:
Dear Major:
Herewith ] am sending YOU
the last greetings Of my hus-
band from "a October. is4s.
oeoo hours. At os0o hours
he was convinced there wouldn't
be any more chance My hus-
band said and wrote 10 me that
he. as q sincere German. dies
innocently. On Thursday.
2i October. is4s, between 1000
and 2ioo hours. / said goodbye
TO him. No tears vere shed.
my husband was calm and pre-
pared and ! vas courageous.
The time OF the execution Was
1000 hours. I was sitting in
the hotel with the watch In my
hand and waited until my f1u.-
band was murdered and had
finished suffering, It is 30 easy
to Write and 50 hard to sceak
about ito be In the position
that one can't help ones dear
est. but to be forced To walt
until IL is too late. then merely
take care Of all formaiitsss--I
think only those people that
went through II can understand
Ii. Two hours before the execu-
ton 600 men secnvsctsd war
criminals Imprisoned In thu
War Crimes prison ut Lsnds-
berg. Germany sang the Ger
man national hymn
Case of SeI6shness
That woman had lived with Der
husband for four years just out
ide the wall which surrounds
Camp Daenar. Yet
o this very dzy she 10 morally
lind 10 her husbands guilt NJ
Of that camp for the
rimes prartsced BY his subor- !
mates durtng nil those years. ca