At every level of Military Government and from one end of the Zone to the other, we encountered the arguments of expediency and convenience, the necessity of “keeping things running,” the dangers of “angering” the Germans and creating a dissatisfied “bloc” which would be ripe for communism, the resentment of lower headquarters against interference from higher headquarters, the fantastic comparison of Nazi politics with Democratic-Republican rivalry in the USA.

Hitler did restore their self-respect when all men's faces were turned from them. He did stop unemployment. He did give the young people something to live for and something they thought it worthwhile to sacrifice themselves for. And we should not forget that he played on the fear of Bolshevism which loomed a few miles away across Poland. Our views may have been modified in the last few years, but it is fair to ask how many of us can throw stones at people who feared Communism.