SECOND FRONT THREAT
NAZI OBSERVATION OVER BRITAIN
LONDON, August 11. German reconnaissance planes over Britain have brought reports of Allied armies preparing for an invasion of the Continent in the near future, says the Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." Captain yon Schrammk, a> German military commentator, in the "Brusseler Zeitung" states that these reports for the first time have forced tlie threat of a second front to be taken seriously. Gestapo chiefs in France, Belgium, Norway, Holland, acting in concert, arrested 100 prominent persons as hostages for their countrymen's good behaviour in the event of an Allied landing. A considerable number of troops and panzer or motorised units have reached the Atlantic coast in the last ten days, mostly from the Vyazma and Kharkov areas. No secret is made of this, for the Germans hope to stave off an invasion by exaggeration of the defences.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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146SECOND FRONT THREAT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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