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honor, to discuss various problems current in
Germany with Dewing and his colleagues. As on many
occasions, the discussion turned to the problem, so
difficult to solve but so extremely important: the
de-nazification of Germany. They held that it was
doubtful that the solution could be found in a
summary cleanup — it might be better to let people who
had admitted that they had been Nazis keep their
jobs, if these were not purely political in character.
In that way the Germans might be influenced for
the better. They hoped that the association of the
Germans with the representatives of the occupation
authorities, with their democratic attitude, would
have better results than the procedure of completely
eliminating the Germans from their present jobs.
The Military Governor of the American Zone, and
as such directly under the command of General
Eisenhower, was General Clay. I had a very spirited
discussion with him during which we exchanged
highly divergent opinions. At first Clay held a
negative attitude toward the proposal for aid to German
children. He was of the opinion that no help should
be given as long as the children in the countries
occupied by Germany were still in worse condition
than the German children. Of course, I pointed out
to him that it was not our intention that the German
children would in any way be privileged. At th^
same time I emphasized that I expected that
conditions in Germany, perhaps during the coming
winter, would be so difficult that the situation, at least
concerning the children, would become fully
comparable with that in other countries. We separated in
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