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           (6) The arrest and punishment of the principal political 
malefactors and of war criminals.
 
     b. The Government of Germany
 
          The Department of State recommends that, after the destruction 
of the Nazi regime, no central German government be recognized 
and that tripartite military government, as envisaged in the  
surrender instrument, exercise supreme power over Germany. The 
Department further recommends the use of German administrative 
machinery in so far as it can serve the purposes of the occupation 
authorities and does not perpetuate Nazi abuses and the use of 
German civil servants, not identified  as active Nazis, in so far
as they are efficient and obedient to the occupation authorities.
 
          Direct military government will be desirable as a means of 
reinforcing the reality of defeat on the German mind. It will 
probably be necessary in any case because of internal confusion. 
Since there is little prospect that the Nazi and militaristic 
groups who should bear the onus of defeat will survive, it is 
politically undesirable to allow anti-Nazi groups immediately to 
take over political authority and thenceforth be identified as 
tools of the conqueror's military government.
 
          The establishment of comprehensive military government would 
prevent the equally undesirable development of the importation 
into Germany of a substantially ready-made provisional government 
perhaps recognized by and functioning under special foreign 
auspices.
 
          c. Future Change Civilian Control. - The Department of 
State recommends that, as soon as military considerations cease 
to be paramount, the control machinery in Germany should be 
transferred to inter-allied civilian hands.
          
     d. German Political Activity and Association. The
Department of State  recommends that, when security conditions 
permit, political parties opposing Nazi and other kinds of 
ultra-nationalistic ideologies be permitted to organize and to 
engage in public discussion.
 
     This recommendation is based on the conviction that the 
German people will need information, public debate and political 
organization before they are prepared to decide their future 
form of government, and that there is advantage in the Germans 
beginning these activities while National Socialism is perhaps 
in greatest discredit under the immediate impact of defeat.
 
3. Control over Information and Cultural Activities.
 
     a. Public Information. - The Department of State recommends 
that, under the direction and supervision of the Control Council, 
there be established throughout Germany a system of control
 
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