INDEPENDENT GERMAN STATES
FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR’S VIEWS “HANG 10.000 GUILTIEST PRUSSIANS’” New York, Jan. 11. Fifty years’ study of the Germans has convinced me that the Allies’ postwar reorganisation should begin with hanging 10.000 of the guiltiest Prussians responsible for Nazi crimes, said Mr James Gerard, formerly United States Ambassador to Germany. “The wholesale extermination of high-ranking Junkers ’will only be a temporary remedy. The German people are a hopeless problem. They must be constantly watched or they will follow new leaders'into another war. “I feel this time the Allies won’t weaken and listen to the blandishments ■ of such men as Herr Scharcht, who will say millions of decent Germans were terrorised and led into the war by the cruel Nazis. Germany must be broken : into independent states, not temporar- 1 ily, but permanently.” j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 5
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