MENTAL VACUUM
Young German Prisoners (Received July 25, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. Judged from any standard. Hitler’s 20-year-old S.S. warriors behind prison camp wires in Normandy are poor stuff, says Alan Moorehead, the “Daily Express correspondent at Caen. They are bigeyed and thin-chested, with gangling arms and legs and a weary air. like mechanical children who have been asked to do too much. They complain of. their lack of air and artillery support, insufficient rations and lack of mail from home. They have a really spectacular lack of knowledge of what is going ,on in. the world. Asked what they think ot' the Russian front, they reply that as ordinary soldiers they know nothing about that. Into this mental vacuum, German 'politicians have been pouring wonderful stuff, such as stories that smoke, from London burning from flying bombs is visible from Calais. The German High Command picks out from the ranks suitable political commissars or non-coms to put over this stuff to counter “silly talk about the end of the war” and even more dangerous talk about the Fuehrer. Looking round the camp, one sees by how much these measures are too late. '
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 256, 26 July 1944, Page 5
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194MENTAL VACUUM Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 256, 26 July 1944, Page 5
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