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hundreds of thousands of champions populated the
concentration camps as martyrs and who struggled
and suffered in exile in order that the ideas of truth
and justice should triumph, this other Germany’
deserves a privileged position in the reconstruction
of public life in Germany. It also deserves, however,
that the world should distinguish between the Nazi
Germany which was capable of every possible crime _
and the Germany represented by the imprisoned, the
mistreated, the tormented and the tortured but yet
freedom seeking democrats, socialists and real
Christians.”
This time I went to Hamburg and Hannover, to
the Ruhr district and Berlin., I had conferences with
representatives of the English occupation authorities
as well as with those of the German governments in
the various districts, with university people and
workers, with war prisoners returning from Russia
and with refugees from eastern Germany. As a Red
Cross official, I was most impressed by the despair
and black pessimism which characterized the German
population. The seriousness of the situation was best
expressed by the English, who stated that they hoped
the food situation in the winter of 1947—48 would
be a little better than it had been the winter before;
they hoped to be able to keep up the daily rations
of 1550 calories. This showed best how essential
Swedish aid was.
Looking back on this journey, a whole row of
different figures pass in review. I see Lord
Pakenham, adviser for German questions in the British
government, speaking to a gathering at Hamburg
University. He talked about the significance and
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