Nevertheless, the present situation with regard to the
execution of the general program of denazification in Ger-
many, agreed upon at the Berlin conference and aimed at
eradicating the remnants of fascism and at preparing the
conditions for the reconstruction of German political life
on a democratic basis, cannot be regarded as satisfactory.
Many things still remain undone in this respect. This ap-
plies in the first place to the execution of the important
provision of the Berlin conference regarding the removal
of members of the Nazi party who had been more than
nominal participants in its activities, and other persons
hostile to the Allied purposes, from public and semi-public
offices and from positions of responsibility in important
private undertakings.
To this day many important economic and administra-
tive positions in big German industrial centres are held by
persons who actively assisted Hitler in coming to power
and who organized the preparation and carrying out of
German aggression. The facts show that in a number of
cases organizers of German fascism and aggression, who
under Hitler's regime were leaders of German trusts,
concerns and other monopolies, remain in leading positions.
Thus the iron and steel industry control in the British zone
is headed by Dinkelbach, who under Hitler wasi director of
the huge Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Dinkelbach not only
directs the iron and steel industry in the British zone, includ-
ing the Ruhr, but has even been entrusted with the prepa-
ration of projects for the "socialization" of industry in the
British zone. The prominent fascist leader Ernst Poensgen,
who under Hitler's regime was one of the thirteen members
of the Reich Armaments Council, is now President of the
German Metal Industry Association in the British zone.
Prominent leaders of German industrial monopolies, such
as Hugenberg, of the steel industry, Wilhelm Zangen, one
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