GERMAN WAR GUILT
RESPONSIBILITY ON PEOPLE. Contesting the view that the Germans as a people were really victims of a few men with a lust for powei and a desire to dominate the rest of the world, a Canadian, Mr D. S. Christie, wrote not long ago:—“The Germans, as a people, are to blame for this war; perhaps the good people of Germany did not sin deliberately in this matter. Nevertheless, they permitted the Nazis to dominate and to take possession of all the offices of government. Theirs is a sin of omission. They did not protest, but permitted a bad situation to grow worse. “The people of a country are responsible for their government. If we start getting mealy-mouthed, forgive and forget before justice is done, we can expect another war just as soon as the Prussianism or Naziism has time to re-I cuperate and again seize power in Ger- j many. “Let us not repeat the error of 1918.” [
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1943, Page 4
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