There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press.
They are trying to do two things; first, implement Communism and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs. They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi.
They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law.
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Diary entry by General George S. Patton, September 22nd, 1945