OCCUPATION
General Dwight Eisenhower added some definite details last week to the Allied Military Government's rule of occupied parts of Germany (TIME, Sept. 25):
¶ The National Socialist Party and its appendages, its uniforms, its symbolsall were ordered abolished.
¶ All the Nazi laws of racial discrimination were revoked.
¶ For the crimes of spying, giving information to the Nazis, aiding them in any way, looting or pillaging, thieving from the Allies or deliberately misleading Allied forces, the penalty was death.
Allied leaders were prepared to be stern (see U.S. AT WAR), but there was less certainty that U.S. troops would or could...
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