| Show I 1 1 I 0 1 11 r I 1 a 0 0 I 1 nazi influence luene remains 1 X 0 v 1 T I 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 I AI to vex allied control I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 11 indoctrination of youth and lethargy of 1 I 1 I 1 mass of people obstacle to efforts to I 1 1 I reconstitute beaten nation 4 I 1 1 1 by news analyst abaly 8 I 1 and commentator I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 service union I 1 washington D C J 11 11 this i is 1 l the firtl first ol 01 two articles by mr revealing how the remits ol of planned terror I 1 we ore making it hard lor for arne americans ricans to I 1 irton run germany cei in any I 1 1 the hearings of 0 the kilgore sub 1 committee on wor war mobilization concluded 1 I in the last weeks of con i gross gress and are to be ried next I 1 september testimony before the committee has revealed leveal cd certain so se 1 cret documents showing plans on J the carvol part of various vailous german ind indus ua to subsidize a nazi 1 1 I 1 I 1 the purpose ot of the hearings hearl ngo sena I 1 lor Kil kilgoree gores associates tell me la Is ti 11 to prepare the united states against a future recrudescence of 1 I f I 1 german militarism i I 1 jf if such buch underground organizations exist and continue to exist awill it will bo be I 1 necessary to hunt them out of their hiding places if we can this Is going to be especially difficult f since some of those hiding places I 1 undoubtedly will be on foreign territory 1 and it may nt not be easy to reach across the frontiers ol of nations not I 1 I 1 too unfriendly bouie to the nazi t fascist idea A i meanwhile there Is an immell I 1 tte problem to be faced and that ls Is he practical task of running oer get I 1 I 1 many something which it is gert gen orally admitted Is la going to be hard I 1 I 1 tr than we thought I 1 1 there are many baffling factors 1 of cf a purely physical aspect which enter into the scheme but I 1 do not hot intend to deal with them here I 1 want to talk tails about the psychological 1 i problem which la is recognized P by y I 1 I 1 t trained observers on the scene but 1 1 perhaps not as fully understood us as it might be 1 it may be recalled that some I 1 i month sago there appeared tn in these f columns colna an exposition odthe of the tation cation and the indoctrination of the y f i german berman people kople and the fate gration 1 of df all elements in germany into a 1 tingle single unit created for or the purpose I 1 of waging total war this dealt wm with the positive steps taken fatten in I 1 the training of the youth and con conversion persio nor or compulsion exerted over such of the I 1 I 1 older oldee generation as were I 1 pliable in this and anda a succeeding or ni I 1 1 bicle I 1 proposed propos ej to deal with what I 1 i night bo be called a program of niga tion since Us its purpose was to destroy the quality of resistance to I 1 1 on the part of those too old or too 1 I 1 I 1 stubborn to accept actively or pas 1 the nazi regime it is what i I 1 have alluded to us the program i oi of I 1 planned terror i i i i notification extended 11 I 1 to all mases classes 11 first it must be renumbered that I 1 1 1 since tife nazis in full power I 1 for about 12 years and the real indoctrination 1 1 ot ta th germany youth I 1 1 began at about the age of 12 there night be presumed to remain a group of middle aged germans who 1 escaped the fullbright full blight of nazi indoctrination 1 normally they would I 1 be the ones most likely to offer col 1 lazoration labor lab oration atlon with the american or I 1 other and most amenable ao to an acceptance of democratic I 1 i methods and beliefs of course there ore are some such I 1 1 on the ather hand although this 1 group group who ho by age or inclima inc In llna clina 1 uon tion were less favorable to nazife Nazi fl I 1 cation tho the majority have not 1 escaped the effects of nazi rule 1 1 I 1 these men were brought up in a more or br less leas normal century I 1 I 1 atmosphere regimented to sums lume ex I 1 t tent I 1 it la Is true and with t tho he long I 1 tradition of lof german militarism be 0 hind them but at root a kindly businesslike churchgoing fout folk whose choso ails were environmental and not necessarily as they 1 it proved when they left home and set tied on our shores ka 1 I 1 41 they are the tines ones in germany whom we blame lor for falling ailing to arise and overthrow the hitler regime for accepting it and its inhumanities I 1 we wc find them now according to I 1 most OJE of the persons persona who have visited germany befuddled sub submissive missive I 1 I 1 byet yet resentful but honestly rejecting I 1 1 all personal individual responsibility 11 tor for war guilt of germany Gorman yand and I 1 the atrocities of the nazis for the most moat part they have proved about as valuable in assisting in the governing of their country as a y I 1 j t large piece of 0 slightly rancid dough I 1 TO meet this and other conditions existing in the Allied zone of occupation tho the psychological warfare division of supreme headquarters has a special I 1 al program reworked out and dont donabe be frightened frIghten cd at the 04 64 title ot of that organization a lot of our boys are arc alive today because of ts assault on the enemy as you will learn some day aim to reorient german mind affert A jart of i theair the aim ot of the american li program Is to help maintain order and its long range objective Is described as Pre re orienting the ger I 1 ann mind aher after 32 12 of nazi ism I 1 general mcclure head bend ot of the ps psychological ch warfare division e cx plaine the immediate objectives of the information bureau of his division divin n as 1 I to maintain and deepen the mood of passive acquiescence and acceptance of orders to the germai people and so to bacill facilitate he completion of the mccu occupation pa of germany 2 to undertake special campaigns required by military government and 3 to take the first steps toward arousing a sense of collective responsibility tor for ger monys crimes and to provide the facts which expose the fatal consequences of nazi and militarist leadership and german acquiescence in them 11 general mcclure realizes that step number three Is a long one and a high one at present the american occupation offic officials luls ore are in a somewhat paradoxical position they are expected to maintain strict ellit military discipline and in the tome same breath in which they order stand at attention they have to say allow now think for yourself and furthermore the nazis have done ill all that Is humanly possible or I 1 I 1 should say inhumanly possible to sop see that there Is nothing left of initiative active or individual responsibility in G q n I 1 haying created this state of t chaos ch az they hops hope to gain an interim 1 I J in which to strengthen their underground it Is I 1 not organized resistance which the I 1 american occupation Is meeting meet teg out of or more germans s ln in the american zone so SID lor farless far less than have haive been jailed for acts inimical to the am american military regime but hundreds and hundreds have been fired from the civil administration becal because lse ahey cannot produce ft a clean antl anti hitler record or they have definite connections with the fazl party or its activities what many people tall fail to realize in this connection Is 39 how thorough gh the cation of germany has been I 1 had occasion to point out in previous columns that the german people were the nazis first arsi conquest that it took longer than the tha military conquest of 0 iny any ot of the nations occupied by the german armies and that the preparation for or this domestic campal campaign was long and thorough recently we have hod had a chance to 1 loom learn more about what a concentta con centra tion camp really was 1 I refer not only to the grisly horrors revealed aled by the dead and the living doad dead found in the captured camps what Is far more deeply revealing reven lingle Is the testimony of some odthe of tho former inmates who were released earlier with their brains still intact from them we learn the powerful apsy ch influences of the treat ireat ment of prisoners by the gestapo this psychological effect reached those outside too further by repeating publicly the camp brutalities i tali ties les in a milder form and likewise by means of the tyrannical restrictions strict ions on the whole people oil all germany was turned into one great concentration camp this was delab irately planned I 1 from my own personal expert bences in nazi germany I 1 C can an testify that this last statement Is 13 not an exaggeration exaggerations 4 I 1 have fol alt the terror atmosphere e r e which es tapo created even for a foi foreigner eIgner reasonably sure of safe cafe and u un n molested departure from the ac cursed country leaving germany in wartime herded into the station under the piercing eyes of 0 tho the SS troopers with the invisible presence of the gestapo all about one had a paralyzing effect on a person even though he had a passport I 1 in his pocket and the sovereign paw power bl 1 the united states behind him |
