Dr. Kahn knows Germany from the Weimar and Hitler days, as perhaps few others. His recent visit has enabled him to link past with present, and even to venture on some estimate of future developments. He talked, so he said, to hundreds of people in all walks of life—in Western Germany and in Berlin, both East and West. What follows is no more than a brief resume of some of the most important points he raised.

What appears to be most indicative of the German mentality since the war. Is the complete absence of any collective or even individual feeling of "guilt." They are today half-amused, half-penitent onlookers at the East-West drama, in which their own fate is involved, but they will not accept any blame for what went before. The one point of agreement with Stalin seems to be in his dictum that "Hitlers come and Hitlers go, but Germany remains." How can Germany be guilty? It was the allies who had helped Hitler to power—why blame "us" for having him?