An enormous and decisive factor in our thinking was the Berlin blockade. Berlin was close to our hearts, particularly to me as a dyed-in-the-wool Berliner. But it was extraordinary that Berlin became the symbol of democracy and longing for freedom in the face of Stalin's and, later, Khrushchev's policy of trying to isolate Berlin. As to the denazification process shortly after the war, I had some misgivings. When I drove through the entrance of the building where the trials were being held, there were two American tanks on each side of the road. My friends and I yelled to them, "Le ave this business to us!" It was wrong to leave the denazification process to the Allied occupation forces alone, because the Nazis committed crimes not only against Jews and Russians but against Germans as well. The problem was that it was difficult to f ind German judges qualified morally and politically for the job. But real denazification had to be in the hearts of us, the Germans, and therefore it was our task.