REPATRIATED GERMAN
Captured On Russian Front
(Received February 18, 9.30 p.m.)
LONDON, February IS. The Moscow correspondent of Jhe “Daily Telegraph” reports that a Nazi corporal, Gerhardt Machens, who was captured on the Russian front on January 11, sent a letter to the Russian High Command stating that he was previously captured by the British at Cape Bon on May 11, 1943, after which, with 2400 able-bodied prisoners, he was repatriated. The German authorities said that the repatriates could not fiffht against the British again, but could fight on the Russian front. The Russians say that Machens, who was a member of an ambulance unit, was an active combatant when captured in Russia. The entire Russian Press published the statement. “Pravda” comments : “The persons responsible for releasing these Germans under the auspices of the Red Cross must either be very naive to expect Hitler to abide by international law, or else must still have a sneaking sympathy for the Germans as ‘gentlemen’ and are not averse to treating with them as such.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 7
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