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    "ocrText": "UMAN\n5° ARCHIVES \"NATIONAL SERVICE\" RECORDS AND for\n- 7 -\nE GOV any\nBut today one hcars, vith groving frequency, the vien that this talk of\nrecducation and democratization may have becn all very vell in 1945, but that\nit is obsolote in 1949. Germany will never again be able to threaten world\npeace, ve are told, and today there is a much more powerful and immediate men-\nacc from farthor East. So let us rebuild Germany's heavy industry, put German\naffairs back into the hands o.: those who once before made her a great military\nporer, forget the oppressions and atrocitics of the Nazis, raiso a new army\nunder the German officers' corps, and make of Gcrmany a strong ally against\nthe Sovict Union. As alter Lippmann has put it, advocates of this sharp re-\nversal of policy regard western Germany as \"an arsenal and a recruiting ground.\"\nProtagonists of these viows like to think of themsclves as \"realists\",\nbut such notions are fantastically unrealistic, and their adoption vould work\ngrave injury to ourselves and our allies, the future holds. A German\nregime forged from these elcments might vell be \"strong\", but it almost cer-\ntoinly would not be our ally, because such a regime would have no interest in\nachieving the goals of our foreign policy, to vit, a stable peace, disarmament,\nand free intercourse among nations. On the contrary, a reactionary, militar-\nistic German government ond be a terrible threat to vorld peace; it would\nsurely seck to exploit and exacerbate intornational tension, and would regard\nai ney world war as an opportunity to revive German might, and a chance for the\nKrupps and the ficld marshals once again to play a big part in vorld affairs.\nNor should ye overlook the close relations, which have lasted through two and\na half decades, between the German officers' corps and the Red Army. It is\nnot so long since Russia served as the secret training ground for the Vehrmacht.\nie have it on the unimpeachable authority of the late Field Marshal von Brau-\nchitsch, the Commander-in-Chief of the Germany Army, that \"Good relations with\nRussia were valued very highly in the German Army, vhich had many points of"
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