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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1946.

CAREFUL WITH THE SENIOR

HULIA

The German Prisoner

be elected to Classes Two and Three, and the same goes for the other eight civilian internment comps in

our zone.

Problem

We could require of Germany such A CA U Inuuur force for some specific period. Alternatively could set about the invidious and

We

probably nimout hopeless Job of selecting some of these Nazis most responsible for the war and bring Athem here to work,

To conte how to the General Staff and senior officers, they have all been moved out of Belgium, and my families, In the Crown Colonies. Inst bearing showed them to be in concluding reflection: I get the im- comfortable hotel compa

pression thant Those detained

on the

band of brothers, May 1 'repent' in

LET THEM PAY BY

THEIR LABOUR

Says

Either of these methods of getting the extra labour which we require would be, at least superficially, eqult-m EDIC. In the former case Germans

bearing the punishment

M.P.

DECARIFIY

IE whole question of the repa

tion of German prisoners may rapidly degenerate into an orgy of sloppy sentimentality.

OFFICERS.

Says Belle, at Pulos, and Stockhausen BAOH are much worte cases, ha n their chief, curiously, being General whole, than the 380,000 in Britain. von Stockhausen. Whether they are I do not think the respective rates themselves would be chousing repre L.D. Gammans, Ferdinand Tuohy

there still really doesn't matter; of release should be anything like what matters in the texture of this the same, yet I fear that our Boards national ains. In the latter instance sentatives to help to explate their

A

SCHEME about to be applied in what I wrote from Bavaria Afteen Germany may wish to keep pace it would be those most responsible with those in the mean Sets for the wrongdoing who would be respect of the German prisoners, months ago, because I really can't taller go ahead, by all means. Such both military and civilian, still being put it any better, and it need to be in the general wish of the British in

Germany, The Control Commission The fact that the first course held behind barbed wire here in the Bald? British Zone could be a pointer as "After World War I this formid- wants released German prisoners to impossible because there is still no how the Government, intends to able organisation for wars of age the Russians have scored, all out to employ gangs of thugs, does not offact the propaganda with which Gemin Government, and the latter Impracticable because no one wants deal with the much larger number slon, dating back 200

they have released but 120,000 Ger- Frederick the Great, this alont com- spread over the United Kingdom.pany passing from generation to There may be little food and less vous methods by which we could mans to the 2,400,000 released by us, alter the fact that these are the ob- By reason of a very strong flow generation--the Germun Gonerat from BAOR to Britain since the be-Stuff-escaped scut free, with the housing, but, provided the right sort get the required labour force with ginning of the year, we don't appear result that von Seeckt und Beck of German prisoners are sent as free out resorting to slavery.

* men across the North Sea, work now to be holding in Germany more promptly set about conserving the awaits every one of them.

cadres and tradition, zeal, kifowledge than sixty or sixty-five thousand and ability of the Obergeneralstab no prisoners of all kinds, and Bome that Germany should re-attack an- CORRE 50,000 of these are'in nine civilian other day. During fourteen years, internment camps. Which leaves a when Germany was supposed to be remarkably small residue of mill-disarmed (1910-1033) the German General Staff studied Intensely, inid tary prisoners still “in arrest,” as the the foundations of the army to be, term is.

But this small number contains 1300 of the General Staff, or of high- ranking or otherwise marked officers - mutter to which I shall revert.

The military prisoners are handled by the Penal Division, and the civi- ilan element by the Legal, but both divisions will unite to

put into operation the principal features of the Ileyman Report-so called after It's Brigadler-author--which hina been agreed by the British Control Commission,

yours

SET THEM FREE Says T. C.

and experimented in other countries with inventions and devices which they were prohibited from using at | home. Then, when Hitler Hung hside the disarmament myth, the German General Staff, the real alchemists of German warring was SOMETH with him heart and brow

•

STOP on the word "brow," and

trust

the Review Board

that

which deals with the 1300 will give Skeffington-Lodge,

mans 49

M.I".

they

THIRD COURSE of action, which would be unexceptional and which I have reason to think would

is a good example.

The article by Mc Skeffington-Lodge

Of course everyone wants to get rid of them, and the sooner they go the better; but there must be one consideration which overriding should decide their going---

can we afford to do without them?

prove success, would be, in the WITHOUT the German prisoncis we cannot plant or reap next event of the early return of all the

Mr year's harvest.

Skeffington- prisoners, to publicise in the British Lodge would better employ some of

Zone a volunteer scheme Inviting Germans to come over and help us his eloquence to persuade the Minis as free men, under much the sameter of Health to give higher priority. conditions as our own workers cmodate British workers to take the Joy.

Large groups of prisoners I have interviewed have assured me that an appeal for assistance, suitably made in relation to auch a plan, would evoke a wide and sympathelle res- ponse.

not

to houses in rurul oreos to acco^a-

place of the Germans. If we have choose between retaining the Ger- mans here and imperilling our food supplies in the winter of 1947-48, then the Germans must stay.

The

Mr Steiningin-Louge makes play with the idea of pemuading the Ger- mans to come here as "voluntary" The holding of prisoners during a labour. It he feels that wo need war is a legitimate means-in so far foreign labour, it is pay he cannot due attention to what is likely to be inside the brows of the men oppo-

as war itself in legitimate of pre- pursünde Mir Shinwell to allow will- site them, concerning whom F. M.

venting the-men In question from ing Poles to be trained for work in Montgomery spoke as follown 'iti WE did not fight a long, dimcult continuing to support the oppositeure coal mines.

WE J845: "Members of the German

and bliter war in order to make side. Once the opposite side has General Staff will be given no the world safe for forced labour. been rendered innocuous all moral Jusufcalion for retaining prisoners in German prisoners of war are now captivity is at an end.

THEN I was in Germany a fow IN THE UNITED KINGDOM the opportunity of hatching plots to- gether and will be kept prisoners

weeks ago I asked a camp of prisoners have so far been dividindefinitely." Quite a few of the being repairlated slowly, but

kep: here and in the

them Foles how many of Our German

young prisoners are ed into three categories, "white," 1300 will be released because all have been

would be prepared to coine to Eng- "grey", and "black," but out here those of general officer ranit were Middle East as tools of our will, and even typical of the German people and on a ten-year contract for work

our whom we may hold to be corporately in the Brish coal mines. there are to be five categories, and included, and obviously n general those who remain are all in

who looked

the alter

guilty. rman hands in the capacity of bondmen. German

They are men chosen at whole camp would have come. Ileview Boards will meet very equivalent of Naaft does not possess

random from

the one section of Two truths have been added to- population, and that not the most The truth is that Mr Skellington- shortly to begin the work of sorting the sort of brains which could be

gether make one falsehood by

Lodge und some of his Socialist forces. the prisoners all of them--into one turned to war-waging account under which to justify this state of affairs. guilty section, the

armed But

Iriends are would

becoming vieums of Most Class conditions of atomic energy.

people ogree tha: Ger- or another of these classes.

Geraan blamey, and exhibiting that There is, firstly, the fact that German soldiers, sailors and airmen are,

national One will be a rarifled atmosphere, only to mention this revolutionary

trail—which unfortunate a people have performed as a class, less rullly than the Ges- beseks uz at the end of every WAT und listing to it could mean deten-appens to suggest the vast fan for life. It will contain close of the released German staff officers, held to merit punishment.

It will make to the brainierets of a nature which are generally tape or the ex-Nazi bossca. Even contacts of Hitler and other Nazi and war brains their kind never did

then, is it punishment of the Ger- of forgetting our friends and pam- mmon people, as such, to punish Franz pering our enemies, chiefs, elther war criminals or ad-

He says: "It is well Inck.

Schmidt and not to punish Hans judged dangerous and unchanged

psychologists that long reparation Braun both members of the underneath. Such people as gaulei-

Let us also bear in mind that CECONDLY, it is true to hold that forus, which the only difference be-normal sex life is gravely detriment-

irum (nume, “tumily, arlenas ters, and SS. seniors who were also valuable men are lured or whisked Britain, us a direct consequence tween the two of which we know is at to the character! Wehrmacht and maybe General away in Germany now. No

la that, not of resisting those wrongful acts, is that the former happened by chonco mean Staff, should find themselves In Class number of brainy German fecit short of labour, especially in agriculto be taken prisoner, while the latter been overseas for years because the equally true of Our men who have One.

nicians and scientists have gone cast ture.

did not? of the Oder, elther willingly

Germans started the war? Mr Class Two will be composed of otherwise, and,

and, if we release these

first These propositions seem af

Remington-Louge hus not men judged sufficiently bad

cases German staff officers, too freely night to end colour to the idea that

ently) a word of sympathy for that they should remain under de- "dammit, they are professional It is only justice that Germans should FINALLY we have selected for He seems to think of tention as long as Bfteen years. They soldiers"-we risk them "crossing be compelled, as a matter of restitu- the work at explation those who people as a fun to have the Gennan represent a more extreme edition of the Oder" too. It may be that about tion if not of retribution to help in had, on average, already been in cap race who had the what, at home, Brc called the ten or twelve thousand of all kinds, maintaining and increasing our food, tivity for about two years when the rotten Government. I I regard them "blacks," and if, as has been com- milltary and civilian, will remain supplles by their work on the land. puted, there are 47,000 "black" in under detention in Germany when

war ended. It is well known to psy-as, at best, aupes of Hitler, and at This may be true as a general con-chologists-indeed to anyone who is worst, willing accomplices who would the U.K.though I make it several the Boards have finished their first sideration, but a very little clear not a fool that long and forcible have shared in his triumphs without

less- corresponding review. The expectation is that, as thought will show that, it is a false separation from home, family, friends conscience if he had won. figure out here in Germany would time goes on, the bad cases will argument as we have applied it. and normal sex. life, is gravely de- be in the region of 6,000.

gradually tone down and qualify for the class below, and finally qualify themselves right out to liberty, via Class Five.

thousands

Class Three will be unrepentant and unrellable less senior fry, and they are to be allowed out in due

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decent

What distressed me most during

I

trimental to the character.

my recent visit to Germany was that Let us suppose that it would be wise and right to punish the German

could not find the alightest sign of It may be argued that, in our own contrition for the atrocities Germany people--by compelling some of them interests, we are entitled to forget had committed, or any sense of re- to continue as sewers of wood una principles when dealing with indisponsibility for the misdeeds of their course under strict surveillance. I Meanwhile there is a think you will find a good many opinion which holds that the hardience.

body of drawers of water for our conven-viduals belonging to an unprincipled leaders. They talk about the Nazis arrogant young men in this numer-

group. But that argument, of course, 84 11 they were rights. core of Classes 1 and 2 should be Three will have to

is almost word for word the kind ous batch. Class

If we grant to large an assumption, that Hitler used. What is the sense prisoners well while they are here; Let us, of course, treat the German report daily to the police, it will be moved out of Germany without

undue delay. In my own. view, and if we say quite frankly that of fighting for principles and then effer them reasonable opportunities, bereft of civilian rights, and be German staff officers, not proven what we want is to secure our com- using the consequences of the fight for leave in Germany, give them de- barred from oficial and public life criminals but liable to "start some-fort even at the risic of the German as an excuse for abandoning prin- cent incentives to do a good day's and certain professions, trades and thing in Germany, or apt to "cross people's safety, there are two ways ciples? callings, and its members will not the Oder," should be offered ten we could properly go about achieving

work, and get rid of them as soon be allowed to move from place to

Spiritual values cannot be bullt as we can do without them. place. Class Three is calculated

with slave Inbour.

(Continued on Page 3) risk and nobody will be surprised if quite a few gravitate back to Class Two.

ay

the

yebra domicile, along with their our olm

According To Culbertson

INTERPOLATE Sir David Max-

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson) at well Fyfo's final reminder Nuremberg

evidence of

Forcing the declager to use up his declarer, after profound thought, human material upon which Class trumps in ruling if very often the made the excellent play of a low dia- East Three may seek to operate: "Vast best defence, but at times this tech-mond toward his own queen.

Observe this typical had to go up with the king or losu numbers of fanatical adherents of nique is fatal.

was Nazidom must in any event remain case:

It-and then

faced with the at large."

problem of what to return. If he had bern able to

spade trick and to cash a len lead a diamond, he could have auorded himself against the error that West was about to commit, but since East did the best

Incidentally, when I hear of the British conscience beini! roused about the prisoners of war, I suggest we look at things from the view- point of Germany's neighbours. It will not add to our shrinking’popu- Jarity if we let loose in Germany 'the very clements that France, Belgium, Holland and so on, least wish to see at large there.

Class Four will be small fry let Gut very soon, under considerably less restraint and restrictions. They may have to report to the police only once a week, and only public and political office and the civil service should be denied them. But one must remember that even with this largely absolved category there will still be a risk inasmuch as all those atili under detention in the British Zone ure where they are for R very good reason. There arc nothing resembling "whites" among them, and the "greys" are quite dark grey.

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Class Five will comprise quite

West led the spade king—a ques- established Eust's king; n, diamund small fry along with the Under-27's fionable choice in itself inasmuch as shift would have allowed West to less war criminals and specially his partner had bid diamonds and kill an opposing diamond trick by active Nail Party members and it West had only a doubleton in that ruffing, before he lost both or Bla will probably be released at once. ult. Dummy's ace was put up and trumpa. Anyone who goes round Germany will tell you that the Under-27's include the most burning-Nazis, co what is to be expected of the

some agc-group out of prison : camps? | Especially when most of the inmates of these camps have come under the immediate and pressing influence of ardent Nazis who were given the key jobs, such as the cook house and camp administration, because, na one British officer put It, "The Nazla are so damned efficient at it."

T THIS CAMP, Neumuenster, in

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I

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