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Allied Airmen Shot Down By Germans GOEBBELS COMPLAINS AND THREATENS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 1 May 2s. S p.m.) LONDON. May 27. Berlin radio, 'broadcasting in English, said: “We regret that we are no longer able to broadcast messages and news of American and British airmen shot, down over German-occupied territory, with the exception of health reports of wounded prisoners already in German hospitals. News and health reports of French prisoners will not be released.” Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. in an article in the “Volkiscner Beobachter,” declared that Allied 'airmen, not content with haphazard bomoing of residential districts, had begun openly machinegunning and murdering civilians. “It is little wonder when people see children murdered in cold blood that they are seized by raging wrath,” he said. 'lt is now possible to protect airmen who are shot down during such attacks from the fury of the people only 'by the use of armed guards. It is hardly endurable that the German police and soldiers should be used to prevent the German people from dealing with these murderers as they deserve. . “If this disgusting state of affairs goes on the world will see we have ways and means of defending ourselves against these crimes. We owe it to our people to see that they are not treated as fair game.” ..
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 206, 29 May 1944, Page 7
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