THE GERMAN PEOPLE
SIR,Miss Rathbone's questions in her letter of July 28th are so con pletely irrelevant to the question of German brutality that one wondat what they mean. Of course, only an organised body, not an individual, can influence public affairs, unless the individual is a genius, a salt or a martyr. But in the long array of bestialities committed by the Germans durint and befdre this war, is there any evidence of any organised opposition? Did the German trade unions put up any such opposition as was recenth displayed by the Danish unions? Did any trade or profession put up an community opposition to the maltreatment and murder of their colleagues? Before the war there was a series of pogroms culminating in to burning of 500 synagogues and murder and sadistic treatment in all the big centres of population. Is there any evidence that any religiom denomination in Germany held meetings or sent up petitions to protest? Germany has always prided itself on its capacity for organisation. VI has there been no organised attempt to counter sadism?—Yom
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