of the leaders of the war industry of fascist Germany, as
well as Hermann Biicher, Rechberg and others, are still at
large and playing a prominent role in the British and
American zones.
Not infrequently, former fascists who carried out the
punitive policy under Hitler's regime hold office as judges
aind as procurators in the judiciary and procurator offices.
According to the materials 'Contained in the report of the
Control Council, such persons constitute about 35 per cent
of all those employed in the procurator offices and judici-
ary in the American zone, and up to 43 per cent in the
British zone, while in the French zone one^half of all
judges are former active figures of the Hitler regime. The
president of the court in the city of Hannover is Eilts,
former Counsellor of the Nazi Military Tribunal. The
prison governor in Cologne is the fascist butcher Dock-
weiler, who during the war was governor of the Broikke
prison in Poland, notorious for its numerous executions
and brutal regime.
The German democratic press has repeatedly published
long lists of prominent Nazis who occupy leading positions
in the British, and American zones. But the public demand
for the removal of these persons has in many instances
been ignored.
Denazification has been not infrequently replaced by
a formal census of practically the entire German adult pop-
ulation. Suffice it to say that by January 1, 1947,
11,600,000 persons in the American zone were required to
fill in denazification questionnaires. Over six million have
already received rehabilitation certificates, and the remain-
ing 5,600,000 have still to come before the denazification
commissions. But the decisions of the Berlin conference
demand the'removal of former active Nazis from leading
positions and the punishment of fascist criminals, not the
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