GERMAN LOOTING
ORDER TO ENGINEERS
Hec. 2 pin. : LONDON, Oct. 6. !Among documents captured when the German Major Rau was captured at Termoli was an order to the Hermann Goering engineer battalions to destroy everything of the slightest value to the 'Allies, particularly railway lines and ! other means of transport, and also •buildings of military value, even including nourxnills. Reuters correspondent at Allied headquarters says that the Germans interpreted the order so literally that |they took even.bicycles and carried off loot in perambulators. The Germans !in one village burned 30 tons of grain -before the eyes of hungry men, women, and children. Italian peasants, when they get the opportunity, avenge themselves. In .one village they attacked four German : stragglers who had been looting, and ikilled one and left theothers for dead. •Our troops found these seriously wounded. <■■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1943, Page 6
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