European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Five Yocius and you will not Gormney Cir can Hitler promised the icon is in Cologne by Mir f i o Chr Lac me Fojtl i Baix a by Debs Myers yank staff correspondent people of Germany who once wanted the whole world now Send their children into the streets to scrounge for cigarette across All Germany the wreckage of the great cities a tombs Many thousands of hidden wreaths brought by friends lie in the rubble As faded memorials to those who died some months or perhaps years the dead May be although Bones Are hard to rec the cities stink in the hot the smell seeps into Cloisters and and it is an ugly reminder of old fears and old gis with dirt caked boots trample As conquer ors through the nazi shrines at Nuremburg and where once Goering and Himmler dreamed of the gis ask one another Why the who had so did not stay at Home instead of starting Germany in the summer of 1945 is a land of dead dead dead a notice scrawled by a i in Chalk on the Walls of the bombed Gestapo building in Nuremburg sums it up they asked for it and they got the soldiers of the and come Many of them can find no Only and they take to the Road going from nowhere to the men of the wehrmacht Are and their Green Gray uniforms Are they walk Bent carrying their packs High on their Seldom looking at the wreckage that lines the they look with envy at the German sometimes the civilians Greet the German sol Diers with cheers and usually the soldiers look the other Way and do not acknowledge the some of the soldiers seem ashamed that they have been others seem resentful of the contrast Between their grime and the Laun dered freshness of the people at despite living in cellars and bombed the German civilians have kept the in look out of place amid the they Wear Bobby socks and pigtails with Gay coloured they Wear thin and they Are fond of standing in the the Pinch is just beginning to hit the German they had been living for a Long time off the fat of their looted from Norway and other they stocked their cellars and their they acquired Fine for a War was a lucrative like now the germans can no longer obtain and food is hard to come there had been few cigarettes and virtually no Candy for a Long but there was adequate meat and plenty of vegetables and under the the food is More equitably and More rigidly people of suspect who did Well to eat under the now eat As much As other people in for thousands of formerly accustomed to there is less food than germans in most areas have a piece of meat As big As a Nickel hamburger once a and they have a few ounces of butter maybe once a the Lush pickings Are Allied rationing provides a maximum of 500 calories per Day for the Normal German con compared with the calories a Day which the american Soldier on strenuous duty supposed to As the effect of this restriction is not Evi Dent on the they look healthy and the real Pinch will come next Winter when the stolen stocks in the pantries Are sex that is one reason Why the germans Are eager to make friends with the american the germans have seen that the gis Are generous with their and the germans Are old hands at eating other Peoples emotionally the germans Are for 12 years they had been stimulated with the Heady tonic that they were born to Rule the they watched their armies spread like a dark plague from the English Channel to the Gates of now their armies Are reduced to groups of Strug homeless on the and their convictions of superiority seem to have blown away Walls of their the germans appear to live in an emotional by their own they show no signs of thinking beyond tomorrow and tomorrows there was the time when they boasted tomorrow the now they Are eager to grub a be hard a 52yearold grocer o presents a typical German once we wanted he now we want Only the world has come Down around our we no longer know what to think about we Are too tired to and when we our thoughts Are not the germans know what hunger after for More than four years the germans watched while the slave labourers went the quest for Conquest has become a quest for food and the germans apparently cultivate their Short memories As some people cultivate they do not want their meals disturbed by memories of Dachau and this quest for forgetfulness must come for 12 years the germans schooled themselves in now in this summer of the germans you meet in the shops and the Street say again and again that they knew nothing of the tortures of Dachau and Buchen probably Many of them did but All of since had seen jews the unions the communists their social Democrat neighbors editors As priests hounded from the they saw these things judged it Wise or convenient to look the other the germans Learned Early under Hitler that the penalty of protest was some germans of Faith and courage did they went to concentration Many did not come some of those who came Back had been some came Back with their eyes gouged the germans Learned Early to take a times were Good in those everyone was Busy making so for 12 the germans practice self As some nations practice it the land is scattered with the wreckage of the new order that fell inward on its Rotten and the remnants of the wehrmacht come Back to streets patrolled by yank and British some germans Are learning of their past guilt and their present citizens tank of 2d a Mort Vii was and to look the other now each German says he was not to blame for what a few Are most Are but none displays a sense of the big nazis blame the Little the Little nazis blame the big the germans who we rent party Mem Bers say All they wanted was a Little butter for their when the americans first the germans hid in their they had heard Goebbels warn again and again that the americans would murder the men and rape the instead the americans played with the German looked wistfully at the German and helped old germans when their carts broke now the germans have come from their and the americans can get a full look at it is a Little disturbing to the germans look like other put them in and you  know they were germans know How to they Patch bomb torn tidy up shovel the wreckage from in a matter of or sometimes they bring even to cities that were twisted masses of already the germans Are picking up the threads of their old some work in fac they swim at the on sunday they walk in the carefully skirting the bomb people get the women stand in Long lines before the German owned they show their ration cards and make their purchases with German usually the stores have Little to most of the germans had Money in the and Many Are now living off this Only a comparatively few have those with neither Money nor jobs Appeal to the and the military government leaves it up to him As to How these people shall be most of the returning men of the wehrmacht Are forced to Appeal to the Bue Germeister for and they do it the Money and property of the nazi leaders and the nazi sub leaders have been these nazis can withdraw from the Bank not More than 300 Marks a with an additional 50 Marks a month for each dependent up to four depend in other a nazi or with four or More could have 500 Marks a one Mark is now equal to 10 cents in american this would give such a nazi an equivalent of a most of the nazis in this category Are in Allied and Money is no longer a problem with they have bigger most of the Little nazis Are Content to stay out of some have been returned to administrative jobs in municipal governments with the per Mission of the military in some leaders of the military government have Given the nazis important jobs on the police the it make efficient police they have carried clubs there was the traffic policeman in Leipzig who Shook by the Collar an old Man who was crossing a Street on a the old Man said he was and did not hear the policeman Tell him to Page 3