Stalin’s experience with some very German Germans.

>That evening, over an American dinner of steak and baked potatoes, [Stalin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Stalin_Potsdam_1945_%28cropped%29.jpg) told [Roosevelt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/1944_portrait_of_FDR_%281%29%28small%29.jpg) and [Churchill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg) that they were “too lax” about postwar Germany. How could they ever reform a people so blindly obedient? He recalled that during a Leipzig visit in 1907, he had watched two hundred Germans miss an important mass meeting because there was no one on the train platform to punch their tickets. _____________________________ **Source:** Beschloss, Michael R. “Fifty Thousand Germans Must Be Shot!” *The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 24. Print. _____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin) [Franklin Delano Roosevelt / FDR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt) [Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PCc, DL, FRS, RA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill)