COUNTRY STRIPPED OF PRODUCE
German Army In Greece LONDON, July 2S. A first-hand account of how the German army stripped Greece before the Italians arrived was given to the Lisbon correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” by Mr. Ralph Kent, a member of the staff of the American College at Athens.
“The Greeks aptly called the invaders locusts,” he said. “They rolled down the peninsula, leaving nothing behind them, and even entered private gardens, counted the rows of vegetables, and informed owners that they were commandeered. I watched Germans deal with a potato field near Athens. They dug up the potatoes, cooked and canned them on the spot, and dispatched them to Germany. “Technically, the Germans bought everything, but they paid only oneeighth tiie market price. “Relations between the Italians and the Germans are anything but friendly. The Italian forces of occupation will find it impossible to live on the country after the German stripping.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 260, 30 July 1941, Page 7
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