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/Far more complex and delicate a task than coping with the black
market is the job of denazification undertaken by the U.S. military
government. On trial or awaiting trial before special German courts are
some two million indicted Nazis. Penalties for the guilty range from
long terms at hard labor for the worst offenders to fines for those less
culpable.
/Though inevitably some have escaped just punishment, the
denazification courts have set aside from the German body politic great
numbers of Hitler's followers and cleared the way for the democratic
experiment the U.S. Army is attempting under the direction of general
Lucius D. Clay
/Of adult Germans deeply affected by Nazism little
can be expected. Any hope that Germany will ever become a responsible
peace-loving nation centers on the very young who have not been
corrupted by Hitler's doctrines of treachery and aggression, who may
still be taught that Germany can find greatness only through freedom and
democracy in peaceful cooperation with the rest of mankind.
Source: “March of Time,” Vol. 13 No. 6, 1948. National Archives and Records Administration. NAID: 23820