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    "ocrText": "- 4 -\nis just as true in Germany as any there clsc. The airlift is a bold and suc-\ncessful expedient, but it is not a policy. The airlift enables us to main-\ntain ourselves in Berlin, but it is no part of that we set out to accomplish\nin Germany.\nSo let us think back to the original objectives of the occupation. There\nhas been privation in Germany, but there has been no famine or plague, and\nWE are now witnessing a very marked economic revival. Gormany is disarmed\nand her war potential is presently under control, but that potential basi-\ncally consists of coal, industrial skill, and manporer, and these things are\nbound to outlast any occupation. That of the third objective? \"hat is shap-\ning the post-war German mind? Are the ideals of freedom and democracy taking\nFRUMAN\nroot, or are Nazism and militarism still prevalent?\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nI suppose that after VE-day most of us thought the crashing disaster\na\nSERECORDS\ns\nSERVICE'\nGermany had brought on herself would almost be lesson enough. But the per-\nsistence of war in the Near East and elsemere, and stories of mass enslave-\nment in Russia, have made it easier for Germans to manifest little shame for\ntheir conquests and atrocities. No doubt, too, the groving tension between\nthe Soviet Union and the United States has given some Germans the smug delu-\nsion that they vere right all the time. At all events, there is certainly a\nresurgence of militant nationalism in Germany today. If this vere mainly\na\nrenewed feeling of national unity, and pride in the true glories of German\nhistory, one might applaud. But, unfortunately, it tends rather to take shape\nas justification, sometimes sly and sometimes brazen, of the events of the\nNazi er3. Thus many Germans now prefer to have it kno\"m that they were Nazis\nduring the Hitler regime, rather than the contrary. Germans who cooperate\nwith the occupation authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to get"
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