<#2. Pocket guide to Germany>

ㅇ Occupation versus Pacification

 

ㅡ "You are not in Germany, however, to carry a chip on your shoulder or to brutalize in inhabitants.

We are not like the Nazis"

 

The message was simple, but it demanded a lot of the young men to whom it was addressed:

Wasn't the struggle against Nazi Germany, which had subjected half of Europe to its brutal domination, the main motivation for the hundreds of thousands of Americans fighting against Hitler's Wehrmacht in World War II?

Weren't "the Germans" the cause of all the destruction in Europe?

Weren't "the Germans" responsible not only for the death of millions of civillians but also for the death of their own buddies?

Weren't "the Germans" the reason for the boundless sorrow and pain?

 

ㅡ In order to help the GIs as much as possible with both the occupation of the defeated enemy nation and the future pacification of central Europe, the Morale Service Division, headed by Germany expert John J. McCloy, published the "Pocket guide to Germany" This key document for the understanding of US-German relations is being published in a bilngual edition.

 

ㅡ The Pocket guide inllustrates the daily difficulties that necessarily confront an army charged with the democratization of its former enemy.

 

ㅡ Geeting occupation troops to stick to a cautios and reserved attitude towards the people in a conquered country while at the same time

motivating the troops to demonstrate a different, better way of life necessarily means walking on a razor's edge.

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제1장. Your Job in Germany.

 

ㅡ On German soil, you are expected to observe local laws and regulations except as modified or amended by your own military authority. Respect property rights. Vandalism is inexcuasable.

Rifling of orchards and fields and unauthorized appropriation of food stores are contemptible and punishable by court martial.

 

ㅡ Depriving the people further will create great hardship and in the end will casuer conditions that will make your own job a harder one.

 

ㅡ Don't belittle or be critical or fighting qualities of former soldiers.

by now you will have had a good opportunity to judge just how good a fighting man the enemy is.

The point is, we don't like to kick people when they are down.

 

ㅡ There must be no fraternization. This is absolute!

Unless otherwise permitted by higher authority you will not visit in German homes or associate with Germans on terms of friendly intimacy, either in public or in private.

 

ㅡ You were courteous to them, but never discussed intimate affairs, told them secrets, or gave them the benefit of your confidence.

 

ㅡ The Germans will be curious. they will be interested. Their interest will be aroused by observation.

They will notice your superb equipment. They will notice your high pay. They will observe your morale and the magnificant spirit of cooperation

and mutual respect that exists in the American Army.

 

ㅡ Don't argue. Don't try to convince them.

If you can plant the seed of your pride of your country and its way of life, time and others will do the rest.

 

ㅡIn the meantime your very presence on German soil will serve as a constant demonstration to the German people,

that the master race theory that sent them forth to bathe the world in blood, was just so much tragic nonsense.

According to its own values, they should be occupying your home town instead of you occupying their soil.

The "master race" didn't make their point.

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제2장. On guard

 

ㅡ You cannot afford to relax caution now. During the war, Germans kept 500,000 trained killers at home, the black-uniformed "S.S.Guards", a branch of himmlers "Gestapo", the German Secret police.

 

ㅡ With the defeat of Germany what are left of these 500,000 will discard their uniforms and disappear into the anonymity of civilian clothes. Many thousands of other Gestapo men and soldiers as well will do the same.

 

ㅡ This will not make them less dangerous. It will make them more dangerous. It will enable them to strike in the dark. You must remain an alert solider. Protect yourself at all times.

 

ㅡ You know that to be born free and equal meant that you were no better and no worse than anyone else but that you would have a decent chance to prove your abilities in fair competition

 

ㅡ He has learned to sacrifice everything, himself, his family, even his wife, for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

He has only one fanatical loyalty and that is to Adolf Hitler. And it will make no difference whether Hitler is alive or dead. The fanaticism to the Hitler ideal of master race conquest and rule will remain.

 

ㅡ He will not change overnight when the Armistice is signed and the shooting stops.

He won't be converted immediately in the towns and villages you occupy behind the lines as you advance in the Germany.

 

ㅡ For your own safety and safety of your comrades never for an instant forget that he is the victim of the greatest educational crime in the history of the world.

 

ㅡ Your own duty is to b aware of the facts and to protect yourself at all times.

 

ㅡ He will try to make you sorry for him too. Don't fall for it

He is very apt, if he can get to talk to you, to try to plant seeds of disunity, racial intolerance and discontent, in your mind. if he does, don't fall for it.

 

ㅡ Don't forget : If the German plans to repeat his own history, he will try at least to sow the discord to prepare for another attempt at conquering the world.

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제3장. Background

 

ㅡ The German people have been living in a vacuum as far as the truth and real news is concerned.

Into that vacuum the Nazi have pumped only such news as they wanted the people to have,

and such lies or misstatements as they thought necessary for the survival of the Party.

 

ㅡ Where this state of affairs concerns you is in the irritation that will naturally arise in you when in the normal contact of occupation you try to tell the Germans what the score is, and they reply with their parrot-like repetition of "All Lies. All Democratic Propaganda" 

Don't argue with them, Don't try to convince them, Don't get angry.

 

ㅡ State and Party became one. most of the big party bosses like Hess, Goering, Himmler, Goebbels, Ley

the party spread a vast network of police and control organization.

SS(SchutzStaffeln), their own military units(Waffen SS), SA(SturmAbteilungen or Storm Trooper)

HJ(Hitler Jugend or Hitler Youth)

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ㅇ결론

 

ㅡ It has not been the aim of this booklet to sing a "Hymm of Hate" against the enemy, or to make you practice as revenge his fanatical creed of intolerance, with its untold cruelties and brutalities.

 

ㅡ Let your attitude in Germany be : Firm, Fair, Aloof, and above all, Aware of the things this booklet has tried to tell you, so that the honest mistakes of an older generation may not be repeated, and so that, to apply Lincoln's words to the fallen men of our armed forces in this wawr, "These dead shall not have died in vain"