General Eisenhower on Goering
General Eisenhower has done well to address a sharp reprimand to senior American officers who have been treating high German officials as " friendly enemies." Reports of genial intercourse with Goering and Press photographs of Kesselring conversing at a hotel dinner- table have shocked both American and British readers, and offer a singular example to troops who have been ordered not to fraternise with Germans. There is only one right way of treat- ing the repulsive Goering—as a war-criminal who will have to stand his trial on some of the gravest charges that could be brought against a man ; he will be accused of taking a leading part in the mass massacre at Lidice, of drafting the plan for deporting slave labour to Germany, of wholesale looting of museums and many other crimes. Such a man should plainly be kept in the strictest confinement. There has been some question as to the practicability of the general non- fraternisation order, which will doubtless have to be relaxed in the case of non-Nazi Germans with whom the controlling authorities will need to have official relations. But there can be no possible question about the necessity to enforce it in respect of notorious Nazis.
