MUTUAL DISLIKE.
GERMANS AND ITALIANS The Germans and the Italian Black Shirts, even as prisoners of war, are not popular with the New Zealanders, but one gathered from several returned men that the Germans and the Black Shirts dislike one another so wholeheartedly that they have to be kept separated at all times. If they are not, there is likely- to be trouble, because of the bad feeling that exists between these two comrades in arms, remarked one man who had had to stand guard over a mixed batch. “Both are cheeky and hard to manage, particularly the Italians,” he said. “They are all quite sure that Hitler is going to win the war for them. One German pilot gave me advance information that Hitler was going to have the war won by this Christmas.” The bad feeling that is shown between the Germans and the Italians also exists between the Italian Black Shirts and the Italian conscripts, and it is usually regarded as necessary to keep them separate also. The conscripts are usually glad to be captured.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 282, 10 September 1941, Page 3
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