EXIT OF NAZIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5

EXIT OF NAZIS

THOUSANDS- DISMISSED

REORGANISING OF GERMAN ADMINISTRATION Rec 1120 a.m. RUGBY, May 24. Nazi officials have been dismissed in thousands in the area of the British occupation of Germany, says a correspondent at British 2nd Army headquarters, and thousands more dia not wait for the inevitable verdict but fled at the approach of the conquering armies. This, he says, is regarded as the healthiest symptom of the Allied .intentions that have yet been made plain.inside the Reich. "The Germans themselves, and other observers in the outside world, were convinced that one of the basic causes of the war was the failure of the Allies at the end of the last war to remove or even affect indirectly the hard core of Prussianism—the German Foreign Office, the Civil Service, and the State Administration," says the correspondent. "These great structures, as powerful and permanent as the German general staff, now lie shattered, and can never return to their former greatness. Soldiers turned into administrators are slow in their work, but it would seem that many criticisms of toleration of war criminals are illfounded in view of the achievements .in so short a space of time of the complete destruction of the State hierarchy and organisation on which Nazism ■rested. The decisions to make the Germans support and pay for and in every way ooerate on behalf of the armies of occupation have already inevitably resulted in a considerable reorganisation and reconstruction of the fabric." CONTROL OF CULTURE. The culture of the Fourth Reich is to be rigorously controlled by the British occupying forces in northern Germany, states another correspondent with the British 2nd Army. Since 1933 the Germans have had only distorted news, but the British information control authorities working under the Allied Control Council feel that lack of news will only lead to rumours which will become distorted and cause a deal of harm. In addition .to the generally " distributed British-con-trolled German newspaper "Die Mitr tellungen," a local newspaper in Germany has already started in the town of Oelde. A local paper is to be started in Hamburg next week, and newspapers are planned for Oldenburg and Bielefeld. These are weekly newspapers at present, but it is hoped soon to publish them bi-weekly. Arrangements have been made for the future publication of German newspapers under German proprietorship on a commercial basis, with news and policy controlled by the Allied occupying authorities. It is intended that the German love V of music should be fostered by organising local orchestras, and several of these have already been mustered. Music of the Nazi-banned Mendelssohn and other composers will be encouraged, but the "Horst Wessel" and other Nazi-favoured tunes and party songs will be banned. Films will be subject to Allied control, but resuscitation of the Allied control of the German living theatre will admit performances of all classical plays except those glorifying Nazism, and this will also apply to books.—B.O.W.