U.S. OFFICERS CRITICISED

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24797, 11 February 1946, Page 5

U.S. OFFICERS CRITICISED

Fraternisation With Germans

(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 9. Trenchant criticism of the manner in which high American Military Government officers are fraternising with Germans is contained in a letter from an American padre, published in the newspaper “Stars and Stripes,” reports Reuter’s Nuremberg correspondent. The padre, while staying at a hotel in southern Germany, recently encountered a group of German entertainers who were brought in to perform at the Officers’ Club. They were billeted in the same hotel and drank and sang through the night, keeping nearly everyone at the hotel awake. The padre said: “One colonel frolicked into the hotel with a couple of babes and got them billeted and fed. I checked and they were not interpreters.” An American officer, with awe in his voice, pointed out a German woman to the padre, saying: “She is a countess.” A military Government officer had given her'a typical letter, requesting “any help or courtesy extended will be appreciated.” “The best American soldiers a year ago were out fighting Germans because the Germans thought they were a master race.” said the padre. “Those imposing upon us now are the same opportunists who rode on the gravy train under the Nazis.”