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...will decide whether Joho Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or the Social Democrats will dominate the Saar Landtag for the next few years; actually, it will demonstrate whether the 968,000 Saarlanders want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days of 1947. Those in favor of Germany are at a legal disadvantage: only candidates known to approve the Francophile government will be allowed on the ballot. But German propagandists, dramatizing themselves as the "repressed German underground," are infiltrating Saarbrücken...
John J. McCloy, retired U.S. Commissioner for Germany, shrewdly assessed the possibilities of a Nazi comeback in his final report to the State Department, published last week. "It is hardly credible," wrote McCloy, "that [the Germans] would . . . again embrace a pseudo-philosophy which disgraced and degraded their fatherland ... But they are, on the whole, not so keenly aware of the danger as those who suffered directly from Nazi evil. They are confused by charges which associate Nazi crimes with traditional German nationalism; they are tempted to justify the war and to blame the Allies for failing to understand that they...
...wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...
...East German concentration camps and the release of Walter Linse, the West German anti-Communist who was kidnaped in Berlin last July. At the lunch Otto Nuschke, vice premier of East Germany, produced his packaged propaganda: "Serious anxiety for our homeland has driven us here . . . Our German fatherland is being integrated into [the Western] military system." Then the East Germans made three clumsy admissions...
...stain our Fatherland and our faith...