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...Aachen, first Rhineland city to be freed, the process advanced a stage further. German workers formed themselves into a trade union, denounced Naziism, demanded an eight-hour day and the right to strike...
Last week the new phase of Naziism was fact, not theory. In captured Aachen, which has been under A.M.G. supervision since last October, three German paratroopers sneaked up to the house of non-Nazi Mayor Franz Oppenhof, rapped on his back door, begged for food. When the Mayor appeared, they shot him through the temple. Three days later another non-Nazi, Mayor Velten of Meschede, was assassinated...
...correspondent asked a seven-year-old girl in Aachen what she thought of Adolf Hitler. Remembering her candy ration at school, she said: "He's a nice man who gives me chocolates." Her brother, 12, piped that Britain was a robber who ought to be punished, the U.S. a country run by "Jewish plutocrats...
...Aachen, first sizable German city to be captured by U.S. troops, a great experiment is about to begin. Last week the Aachen presses were printing the first of 20,000 new textbooks. Next month, the United Nations will take their momentous first step in the re-education of Nazi Germany: under the supervision of U.S. Army military government officers, classes will reopen for first-to-fourth-grade students...
...Aachen's teachers were chosen from those on the scene who, by a meticulous, secret, weeding process, had been found free of any past connection with the Nazi Party. Of Aachen's 325 pre-war teachers, 49 were still in the city. Of these, 26 were pronounced fit, a percentage which the Army considered high. As in Italy (TIME, Feb. 5), it was made sure that Germany's new texts-six primers and three arithmetic books-are clear of fascist taints. This was accomplished by the simple process of choosing them from a collection...