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carry through their whole program. It must be recognized
that while this was the position in the very beginning, a
number of Nazi Generals quickly succumbed to the lure of
power and the dreams of world domination which so rapidly
developed among the Nazis. It cannot be ignored that as
the German Generals saw the lack of action and the lack
of consciousness of what was going on in other States, and
as they saw the continued success of the Nazi officials
whom they considered as dreamers, fanatics and, in many
cases, madmen, they succumbed to the spell and became as
Nazi as the Nazis themselves. While some of the Nazi
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Generals to the end may not have been in accord with the
aims of the Nazi German Government, all of them in the end
were instruments of that régime. It is my opinion that those
Generals who are still alive and who early associated
themselves so fully with the Nazi ambitions are just as guilty
as Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and others in the high civilian
Nazi hierarchy. Others of the German Generals endeavored
to maintain the rules of war and, while they became imbued
with the Nazi ideology and aims, they remained to a certain
extent military men who wished to follow the rules of war.
These, it is ventured, may be treated in a different category,
and seclusion, that is, imprisonment, may be sufficient,
but the stamp of guilt must be officially passed on them
or
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