Anti-Germanism Racialism makes me angry in whatever guise it comes.
Robert Muller's television thriller Night Conspirators is an example. The main theme of Muller's play is the appearance of a paralytic Hitler in West Germany to be judged by a sort of committee representative of German life. This Committee soon decides to use the ex-Ftlhrer for its own purposes and in the end is dominated by him in the old fashion. I know very well that Muller has good reason to execrate the Nazis, and I fully sympathise with his obvious inability to distinguish the mass of the German people from the Nazis. There are some dreadful experi- ences which are wholly destructive of common sense. But Muller, having committed himself, must be judged guilty of racialism. West German ddemocracy has been successful to an extra- ordinary degree. Anyone with any freedom of mind whatsoever who meets young' people in present-day Germany realises how very far they are from nationalist or authoritarian creeds. The surprising thing about such bodies as the refugee parties (whose bitterness is solidly founded) is the negligible political influence they have exer- cised. To falsify this healthy state of affairs in terms of a horror comic is ludicrous, irrespon- sible and destructive. This sort of thing, if one can imagine it on a large scale, would only pro- duce inside Germany that very nationalist reac- 'tio'n which Muller seems to fear.
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