BRITISH NOW TO BE FRIENDLY WITH GERMANS: AMNESTY ORDER
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(11.45 a.m.) BERLIN, June 4. “German interests converge closely on our own, and we no longer owe them any ill-will, ’ ’ said Lieut.-General Sir Brian Robertson, British military governor of Germany.
He described the Germans as a Christian, civilised people wno would be treated accordingly.
He announced an immediate amnesty in the British zone for all former noncomnnssit ned officers of the S.S. organisation except those involved in war crimes, but including Hitler's Deathshead Waffen S.S. Lieut.-General Robertson announced increased British fraternisation with the Germans. He said visits to German families would be encouraged, and Anglo-German organised sport would be unrestricted. He said the Soviet order on the wages increase in Berlin appeared to be unilateral action directly conflicting with the four-Power agreement on the Government of Berlin.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 5
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