POST-WAR GERMANY
Sta,—There is one paragraph in your admirable article on "Post-War Germany " to which I think exception must be taken. You say, at the !mom of page 547:
" It has been pointed out with justice that under the rigid censor- ship prevailing, the slaughter in Poland, the mass-murders of Belgrade and Rotterdam, the executions of hostages in every conquered country, are quite unknown to millions of decent Germans who would in- stinctively revolt against such butchery."
I cannot accept so sweeping a statement which is quite contrary to
on sense. The Germans make no pretence as to how they treat conquered peoples and is it suggested that every soldier who goes leave is sworn to secrecy under pain of death, if he should tell his fly what he is doing and what he has seen? So far from hiding these s from the German people you should know that these scenes of or have actually been filmed and shown both in Germany and in untries under the Axis rule. It is part of that " organisation for sym- thy," against which we have been repeatedly warned, to imagine that e are millions of Germans unaware of how their soldiers behave time of war, and I regret that a paper so well-informed as yours is uld have been responsible for publicising statements which obviously
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