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therefore, a quarantine was necessary, in order to avoid it infecting this country.

The CIA, or rather

its predecessor, the CIC...

... started in 1945 and 1946...

... to store all the files of those involved in the

Red Orchestra.

The Americans took not only their Gestapo files ...

... but also the moral judgments

of the Gestapo, about the group.

When proceedings started...

... against Manfred Roeder, because of all the death sentences he had demanded...

a US officer in luneburg...

... began an investigation between, '49 and '51.

Ultimately no charges were filed...

... because no serious injustice

was suspected.

Manfred Roeder had behaved, they said,

as they would have expected in 1942 ..

... considering the law at the time. His crimes ...

... had been legitimized by 1951.

Nobody in nazi judicial system has ever paid for their crimes.

The judges and lawyers did not go to jail.

This was in part because they were tried by their

peers, other judges and lawyers

I only know that they argue that what they

did was legal

... according to the existing law.

That can be used as an excuse for everything.

In 1950, my grandparents decided...

... to move to the eastern part of Berlin

A major reason for this decision...

... was the fact that Manfred Roeder had ...

... openly joined a neo-Nazi party.

When Manfred Roeder was brought to trial ...

... the U.S. prosecutors against him said:

Sorry, but the Nuremberg court ...

... delivered justice for many Jews. Sorry,

but we can not do anything for you.

People in our department of State

were seeking revenge ...

... they said:
There is no good in any German. Dont tell me any Germans did any good.

If they have fought against Hitler they were probably bad guys who were communists.

They were not good Germans. They were just traitors or something

Who had betrayed the cause.

But the real traitors to Germany

were Hitler and his associates.

You always said your father ..

.. the people of the Red Orchestra,

with their different opinions...

... had a common belief:

Fascism was the absolute evil...

... that had to be overcome and destroyed

They did, at least,

make their contribution

After the war they were considered

to be communist spies.

They cooperated with Moscow,

but it could have been London.

Auschwitz had to be stopped.

Then of course came the gulag.

But that's a different period.

In the period in question,

World War II...

... fascism was the enemy.

I think it's really time that people stoped

calling what little resistance there was ...

... good or bad. Its very subjective ...

... to divide resistance into 'good' or bad .

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