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/What about the ideas in their heads? They have to be demobilized and
got back to work. But let one man or woman who still believes in the
Nazi regime or the destiny of the German people to rule the world take
office and you have the beginnings of another war. So they are put
through a screen. To begin with, selected Germans interrogate them and
fill in their demobilization papers.
/Note this meek little man who
looks like a clerk or a grocer. Here is his portrait in Luftwaffe
uniform. Then all their thumbprints are taken for record, and they are
stripped and examined for the SS mark tattooed under the left armpit.
Then their past history and character is examined by our intelligence
officers, German speaking ex-commandos, and parachutists.
/The
majority of Germans get through this close examination and are
demobilized. But every so often there appears one who is suspect, or who
is wanted, whose papers are too good, or whose answers are not good
enough.
/Rejected. Back to the cage.
Source: A Defeated People, Orientation film no. 28, United Kingdom, 1946. NARA. NAID: 36087