Foreign News: Germany’s Future

The Swedish town of Falun shelters a colony of Jewish refugees from German Europe. Its members live a partly communal life. By day they work as lumberjacks, toymakers, woodturners, cooks, housekeepers. In the evenings they gather for discussion and study; the subjects range from politics to dress designing.

Last week TIME Correspondent John Scott dropped in for a visit, talked long & earnestly with his hosts, polled their opinions .on Germany’s future. Unanimously the colonists voted for execution of leading Nazis. Most of them demanded reparations. But a majority voted against dismemberment of German territory, destruction of German heavy industry. These victims of Nazi Germany still believed that there should be a strong postwar Germany, hoped but were not sure that it could be a democratic Germany.