Ike Reports;

General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower sent home his first report on the occupation. In 20 pages, it cited the facts & figures of a defeated nation's life.

Economics. Most of the report, written in August, dealt with Germany's desperate economic exhaustion. The details:

P: Less than 10% of theindustry in the U.S. sector was working.

P: Mines would produce no coal for house-heating this winter.

P: The average German diet was one-third below subsistence level.

P: The pressure of inflation was increasing, revenue from taxes was down, currency volume up.

P: There was virtually no trade.

Politics. Eisenhower's part of Germany was in a political coma. Everything Nazi had been outlawed, but denazification was progressing against great obstacles (see INTERNATIONAL). The details:

P: 80,000 Nazis had been arrested, 70,000 dismissed from office in the U.S. sector (the Nazi Party and affiliates had 10,000,000 members throughout Germany).

P: Germans were taking more responsibility in local and regional government.

P: There were some party-political stirrings, mostly leftist. Labor unions were springing up rapidly.

P: The population was generally orderly and obedient.

P: Re-education of the people was proving extremely difficult. A great "intellectual void" remained to be filled.

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