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    "ocrText": "- 12 -\nAll this was plain to everyone except the German officers, who under-\nstood only dictatorial and violent methods. And it all worked out just as\ncould have been forescen; the German policies merely fanned the flames of\ninsurroction. The more intelligent officers realized what was happening;\na German official reported from Belgrade to his superiors:\nThe consequence of the procedure of the German troops will be that\na large number of innocent people will be slaughtered and that the\nCommunists in the woods not only will not be exterminated but will\nincrease in numbers. Because many farmers, even entire villages -\neven though up to now they had no connection with the Communists -\nwill flec into the vroods only out of fear and will be received there\nby the Communists. They will be provided with arms and used for\ncombat and for open revolt against the German Wehrmacht. This insur-\nTRILMAN\nrection will develop on a large scale and will have incalculable\nand terrible consequences for the entire population.\nAROHINDEANING 4. SERVICE'^ RECORDSD NASUONOMAL\nBut these warnings went unheeded. The slaughter of hostages continued and\nthe ranks of the partisans swelled day by day. Many German divisions were\nticd do\"m in the Balkans, and some of the ablest German commanders had to\nbe called away from the Eastern front, where they were badly needed, to\nGreece and Yugoslavia. The German generals thought they were being cold and\nrealistic, but in fact they were giving an eloquent demonstration of the in-\nefficiency and lack of imagination characteristic of dictatorship.\nThese examples could be multiplied a thousand-fold. In the efficiency\nand totality of economic mobilization for war, Germany lagged far behind\nBritain and the United States. And that was true of dictatorship in Germany\nis equally truc today in Russia. Recently we have been privileged to learn\nthat biology and genetics are no longer sciences, to be pursued with objec-\ntivity and detachment, but ideological creeds, to be mastered by memory and\nfaith. \"hatever doubts and disagreements there may once have been about\nthe inheritance of acquired characteristics are now resolved by the revela-\ntions of one Lysenko, who appears as a sort of high priest of the laboratory."
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