SUBSERVIENT GERMANS
RUSSIAN IMPRESSIONS Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 14. Light is thrown on the mentality of the German people in defeat by Colonel Bukovski in a description of Gleiwitz after a fortnight's Russian occupation, published in the Red Star. Colonel Bukovski says that the people must have an order before they do anything. Frau Seidlitz, expecting a child, asked the Russian commandant for permission to give birth to it. A chimney sweep asked for written authorisation to climb roofs. A local pastor thought it necessary humbly to ask the commandant whether he would be (Permitted to conduct a church service and bury the dead. Before the electricity service was restored it was necessary to root out the chief engineer from his hiding place and compel him to gather subordinates to start work. The same thing happened about the water supply.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1945, Page 5
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