Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                The stars and stripes Magazine july 1945 by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes staf writer Berlin 64oerlin is still i j3 officers from the three annies whose aupied efforts had smashed this City to a Wood and Stone pulp Sal in the first rows of the shabby Cabarett Der Komi and listened intently As the chorus Sang the rousing its words began will Rise this is the song that All Are and ended it will Rise so will the Lindens Bloom again i enter Den Berlin is still the British and american officers loosed at each other As the song ended and the packed House of germans stamped and was this a song of fervent Hope or was it a song of Defiance or was it both outside the As the German audience trickle away on foot and on by the Allied officers stood at they threw the cig Aret Butts to the smal Days darted the scrambled Lor them arid put them in tobacco a perhaps came tugged timidly at the sleeve of an american and said i am a 1 was just released from a concentration 1 can speak a Little your is it not possible for me to find work so i can eat the titania the Hen Kon Auktor of Berlin symphony explained apologetically that the nouse would not be full this morning because Many american soldiers who had bought tickets were to attend a special performance for troops Ana would not be the lights dimmed and the 60piece orchestra tuned the Hall was a Little battered and there were a few holes in the arched but they were almost invisible in the near the heir Kon Auktor took his place on the podium Ana Foi two hours the people who had straggled in from All Over the City to hear the concert listened to the music of the of Schumann and of the and tried to forget their hunger p the German perhaps 200 of stood patiently in line along the sidewalk in front of the its windows blown its front caved a Load of potatoes had just come for the first time in several and now they would be Able to draw heir they and they talked and then waited they were too tired to it was four hours before the potatoes ran a few of the women at the end of the line were too late to get in the subway was Bare and suburbanites boarded the train and it pulled away toward the a plan of the subway lines showed which ones were now in except for the Center of the most or the system was in the trains were in Good better than some on the Paris or London sub on the subway the names of two stations had been taped a curious Soldier scraped away the the stations were Adolf Hitler Platz and Horst Wessel Strasse in front of the adlon across from the Brandenburg it was easy to see Why the subways were not operating in the Center of the prom the subway Entrance in front of the a smell of decay wafted through the whole Pariser it was almost Down the Steps into the stagnant water could be rising nearly to Street floating on the water were Gas helmets and the lights in the night club were soft enough so that it was difficult to notice the threadbare the tables were covered with paper and the Only drinks were a weak wine cocktail and a pinkish drink that tasted like melted a sugared but the atmosphere was cosmopolitan and the uniforms multicolour the music was fevered and sounded like before the sleek looking German painted German girls crowded the tables and the dance floor Side by Side with Allied officers and the Small Dand played songs like tippi Bei Mir bist do and others of like Vintage the germans danced in the pre War manner they had imitated from the floor show was bad a mediocre tap a Bulky blonde Pranc ing around in a semiclassical and a outside the cabaret the Allied officers stood Little girl with an old doing a toe but no one was paying much Atten Tion to the floor when they the German some wearing silk stockings though none wearing smiled demurely at the Allied soldiers who danced with the floor show ended at ten and the dark bulgarian manager asked that the guests leave in order not to violate the the girls at the soldiers tables left with in Ehrenstrasse just East of the Wilheim in the worst of the cites was the office of the social democratic newspaper and of the the office of the party chairman had once been sump now the carpet was stained one Wall had been blown out the furniture was the chairman himself was neatly dressed with the flowing phrases of an intellectual and the Cusp alertness of a prosperous business he was about he was saying Only we germans can succeed in re educating the germans to de we Hope that you British and americans will let us help you in doing the what the nazis Nave done to Europe and the world must be but we who have lived with it and fought against it can Nelp you do the the German people May All be guilty of the As you but there Are degrees of Are not we who have been imprisoned for our opposition to that War to be heard in the artistically furnished apart ment of Hemo the song writer who created Berlin will Rise there were two pianos at one end at the living behind tre pianos an the Wall was a map of on the table was a framed picture of a German gaze introduced the Young lady who was at his this is my Soaia she is a i have hidden her from the nazis for two years one whole year she was in of she is half a the conversation turned to his gaze it has no political Signi the russians Tell me to write a song of optimism without politics and i write you think it is a song of de Fiance it must be the Way the girl at the Cabarett sings that must be w by Italy i Harwood stars and stripes writer the German did ii world Domin Ion in isl to the kaisers legions were permuted to March irom Neil torn tic Las Ana towns of Northern prance Ana Belgium pack to the unto Mcnea Paine Riana in two the picture is vastly Dili Erent uus for one War destruction was borne by Allied an Ana Iano Power into the heart of for German tight ing Nave been made prisoners of War Ano As sues Are going to Nelp Rouila what Nas been Ces Troyea Anc damaged in Europe the Western allies Noia some prisoners of War Ana Russia has it Nas been decided of the Ameri can and Brit in governments to Turrub prisoner so far As it will to the War stricken countries that need Ana want within recent prance Oas been allocated More than pcs Tor re habilitation and removal of mines planted by the wehrmacht along the Atlantic Wall Ana the routes of the German prisoners allocated to the French by the allies Are in addition to those taken by Frances fighting the French expect to make use of More than a million of the prisoners As the Job of restoring their country requests for prisoners by other War Sancken nations Nave not yet been officially although Belgium Nas inquired into the possibility of getting Sev Seral thousand Coal nor the Baltic Czechoslovakia and Britain suffered extensive War damage and can use hundreds at thousands of a Lebodier pcs to Neil erase the surface of the  Poi Ana will Nave per haps the greatest claim upon German Pris Oner labor with possible exception Moscow mentioned some i pcs Are going to help rebuild what has been destroyed and damaged in Europe months ago that the would need prisoners for several years to re store devastated soviet employment of German pcs As labourers by various United nations is not a matter of retaliation for the nazis use of millions of slave civilian and pm workers m the third the first consideration of the Allied nations is to relieve their own manpower shortages and their Peoples suf French Mim Stei of reconstruction Raoul Dautry recently said we cannot re store tins country without prisoner he pointed out that before next Winter enough dwellings must be repaired and Barracks built to nouse the More than a million French families who lost their Homes As the germans were driven from the he also estimated that the Job of removing millions of them were planted without being charted take ten years and require Nohe Allied reparations commission after world War i fixed Germany debt to the Allied nations at about Gold excluding the loss of her Colo since some economists previously had predicted she would be unable to meet the it was no great Surprise to the world when Berlin announced in 1921 she would have to renege on part of the Money the following at the end of five Only Marks in Gold and products had been this Germany had no colonies and her ability to meet stiff Cash payments is As doubtful As it was in for that the reparations commission pre paring to Convene in Moscow May decide that payment in for be the Only satisfactory Solu Tion to the settlement of just claims against Germany first Call on services o of will go to the various military at the present time the american army is nazis must work out their War guilt using approximately German prisoners in organized labor units throughout the Eto with Good this Means a lot to an army intent upon redeployment of a Large part of its forces to other parts of the world take average strength of pm labor units is 250 plus two or three German officers of company army authorities have Learned that Best results Are obtained from pcs when their own officers and noncom supervise the employed pcs Are now paid 25 cents per Day credited to their country and receive a Little tobacco and such other pm rations As they this rate has sup planted the former 80 cents per Day and s3 per month pm the food ration for working prisoners is approximately calories per Day As compared to the Basic army ration of in the German prisoners Nave been used in the states with equal Success for Many the army has put them to work in Laun clothing and equipment quartermaster in motor maintenance and and in the maintenance of grounds and under the direction of the War Man Power prisoners have been used by private contractors to Harvest fruit and vegetable crops which might have been lost due to the shortage of free civilian labor in the coun chairman Clinton Anderson of the House investigating committee Only recently asked for pcs to work in the nations sugar beet by next return to Europe of the close to German prisoners of War in the United states should the present prisoner pools will probably have been depleted by that and those returning May have further work Cut out for and awaiting Are going to have to pay in sweat for their