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Show AMG RULE SET EAST OF RHINE Reeducation of Children Is A Serious Problem in i German Areas. 4 1 PARIS. The immediate basic problems of the Allied Military gov-' ernment have been largely solved' In the Rhineland, but reeducation of German children, now the most unruly section of the population, and prevention of Nazi adherents benefiting bene-fiting under the occupation must be ! dealt with In the future, according to Capt. James H. Denison of the United States First army. Captain Denison, former news edi-' tor of the Detroit Free Press, revealed re-vealed that military government! had been established across the Rhine when a "spearhead section" took over the government of one of the captured towns in the Remagen bridgehead. Many of the problems that have been quickly solved in Cologne were ones that it took some time and energy en-ergy to solve in Aachen, "test tube" of the AMG, Captain Denison said. Aachen was a blessing in the sense that it gave G-5 a chance to experiment experi-ment but a curse in that the front line was static for some time after its capture and attention and criti-! cism of the entire world settled on the city. Pressing Problem. Today the most pressing problem in the Rhineland is the behavior of children from 12 to 16 of both sexes. "Serious trouble," involving cutting; in one case, has been caused by these children, in whom Nazi teach-i ings are deeply ingrained. The only immediate solution Captain Denison offered was "a little pick and shovel work." The second problem, which Captain Cap-tain Denison judged would be even more difficult in the future, centered around business men who had made money during the Nazi regime and' consequently were the only German . . ... able to finance private enterprise in sectors now occupied by the Allied : ' torces. "Of course they are not Nazis,"' said Captain Denison. "We haven't' met a Nazi since we crossed the) frontier. They all protest that theyi never had anything to do with the' party or Hitler." , Captain Denison conceded that it, would be difficult to curb the activi-j ties of these men, since their prop-! erty and money were their own and it might turn out that those who' profited most in the early stages of! American occupation were those! who had done the best under the' Nazi regime. ' "Of course we will watch fori them, and try to sift out the Nazis, ; but it is a difficult job," he said. "', Returning to the problem of Ger- man children. Captain Denison not-j ed that "Maria Shultz," who Ger-; man propagandists say was execut-: ed by the Americans and whom they, are presenting to the Reich as a , Teutonic Joan of Arc, is alive and well. Nevertheless, the arrogance; and hate that Maria's diary revealed j is symptomatic of the feeling of German children, Captain Denison: indicated. Security Basic Problem. The basic problem of the AMG is security, the captain said, pointing! out that military government itself existed to further tactical operations ! in divisional, corps and army areas. ! The one way in which security is preserved is by keeping people ta houses. In Aachen at first men were ' kept in homes all the time, while1 women were allowed out two hours : a day to get water and food. The AMG in Cologne, largest city yet taken by the Allies, is registering register-ing and fingerprinting all Germans for means of identification, Captain Denison revealed. Security is providing few problems prob-lems in Cologne. Thus far there! have been only 34 cases of violation of military government ordinances and most of these were minor offenses of-fenses such as staying out after the curfew and circulating within the army area. All three types of military mili-tary government courts, summary, intermediate and general, have been set up in Cologne and seven of the 34 cases already have been tried in the summary court, which has jurisdiction of fines up to $1,000 or one year's imprisonment. |