VETERANS FIGHT IN POLAND
(Published by Arrangement with "The Times.”] A recent article in the Nazi “National Zeitung” under the title “Thanks to the Old Hands,” explains why so many veterans of the Great War were in the front line during the Polish campaign.
. It argues that, in spite of the unique training of the German soldier of to-day, the veteran alone had the essential experience. He alone knew “what taking cover means and how caution and foresight are often more important in the field than headlong assault.” The soldiers of the new Reichswehr were therefore able to learn the trick of ' the trenches from the veterans, who in turn learnt from their juniors the latest refinements of modern training. Hence the “astonishingly small losses” in the Polish campaign. The article was intended to silence the voices raised in protest against the sending into battle of those who had already survived one war.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 12
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