All Too Human

Hapless, homeless little Nazis found a friendly light in an unexpected window last week. The Communist Party invited them to come in out of the cold.

At a mass meeting held by Germany's four major parties (Social Democrats, Communists, Liberal Democrats and Christian Democrats) in Berlin's British sector, shrewd, grey Communist Leader Wilhelm Pieck called for national unity and informed the Nazi small fry that they were welcome as comrades. Said he: "We call on all the little members of the former Nazi party who committed no crimes . . . penitent, nominal Nazis. . . ." Among the three thousand people who jammed Berlin's massive, prison-like Radio Building, there were cries of: "We want no Nazis!"

Next day, a front-page editorial in Berlin's Communist Deutsche Volkszeitung warmly spoke up for those who had joined the Nazi Party merely out of opportunism.

No less opportunist than before, Germans were joining the Communist Party.

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