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“Director, FBI - | ; —-—-——"workers - felt they must ret people out of those camps ato. a ‘all costs. So we went at it case by case and 500 refurees ‘were moved into productive lives, and it cost us only .50 ‘ahead. dhe work with displaced persons was harder be- ‘gause they had already been screened and we had to- work with what wag left after the 7.8., jail rccord, and other ‘disabilities had been removed. _¥e were told it was hope= less, but wo placed 32 in jobs in Munich, #e did it by having faith in the good in tha refuree, the employer, and the official. Poonle said it was American lmoa-how, but we tried to show then that the work waa done mostly by Swiss “and Germans, and that few Anericans took part. ‘they asked ns what philososhy lay behind our willingness to work 60 hard end to care so much about individual refuzees. «a . told thea that ovr religious belicfs just naturally found ‘expression in social work. ‘this sort of thing can influence tha whole life of German socicty. They asked us how we managed to find housing for ow refurees in cities where there were no houses, te told thea we just used a little free enterprise work on it. As a matter of fact, mre went ' ¢e a local man who read kant eds and when he found a place, wont and teliicd cersonally with the person who had tho’ _ house end made arranzecentsy thus by-passing the avthori~ tics who would have said, "ahere are no houses." Our : wort in thia area of service may be ended, but wa feel we have planted seeds in the German consciousness which nay bear fruit. We are now working with ncichbo:: od centers and social grouos in an effort to find away . getting away. fron totalitarianism, ‘ce are working te show deno~ ‘cratic ways. Lut the experience ef the bast Gércans with ~ diotatorships and their experiences in Russia during war have Icft their mark. You can't wipe out the long history ef social backerourd, It is a hard job to gct them to under stand democracy. Some thoucht denocracy moant counittee work. The Germans need to learn to listen. I was in the - Eastern zono and was at a meeting called by the minister on . cultyre. He was asked why they jamaed the radio when it was broadcasting from the Fest. The answer was that thoy ‘believe in freo epeech end that all must epesk - East as roll as Test. Our area of concern is bringing understend- ine between Exact and rest Gormnse Tho neighborhood centers CF . an : . ahr