ing from direct resistance to measures of the occupation
authorities, this organization worked to place in economic
and administrative posts active fascists who would take
advantage of their official positions in order to develop
activities hostile to the purposes of the occupation of Ger-
many. A big underground fascist organization, which
worked under the direction of former generals and high
S.S. officers and had its branches all over Germany, has
also been recently uncovered in the British and American
zones. This organization had as its object the re-establish-
menlt of the fascist regime in Germany. Big secret stores
of arms were discovered in the process of its liquidation.
Several underground fascist groups and organizations have
also been liquidated in the Soviet zone, including groups of
the "Edelweiss-Piraten" organization, which consisted
mainly of former agents of the Gestapo, S.S., S.D. and
other Nazi organizations. Underground organizations of the
so-called "Rhine Resistance Movement" were discovered in
all the occupation zones, which had set themselves the aim
of sabotage and wrecking in industry, in order to hinder
the restoration of Germany's peace economy, as well as to
obstruct the discharge by Germany of her obligations to-
wards the Allied Powers.
In view of all this the execution of the general pro-
gram of denazification adopted at the Berlin conference
cannot be regarded as satisfactory.
The Soviet Government deems it necessary to propose
that the Council of Foreign Ministers instruct the Control
Council to concentrate its attention in future on the fol-
lowing tasks:
1. To take measures without delay for the removal of
former active fascists from public and semi-public office.
2. To expedite the trial of Nazi criminals by courts and
tribunals, and to replace former officials of the Hitler
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