Word: mistreat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stern trial and punishment, not only of the top Nazis but to "extend down vertically into the population for a certain distance." To be executed: all high Nazi and Gestapo officials, Gauleiters, members of the Army High Command who helped to mistreat occupied countries, lesser officials who zealously carried out Nazi policies. To be imprisoned for life: all smaller fry who acted with "singular cruelty." To be interned, exiled or held in labor battalions: all incurable antidemocrats...
There are very few Tom Halls, but we cannot afford to mistreat them. Because there are such a tiny minority, the only danger from them arises out of our own brutality towards them. We recognize the right of sincere objectors not to serve in the Armed Forces. We cannot then refuse them the right not to participate in a compulsory registration designed primarily to provide men for those Armed Forces. The British as a matter of fact recognize this right, and they have apparently found it possible to distinguish between draft dodgers and genuine pacifists. We might do well...