LOST POSITION
' GERMANS IN BALKANS Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, April 5. "German soldiers, you are alone, isolated, and holding a lost position," said Cairo radio in a message to German soldiers in the Balkans.
"Soviet blows are hammering at the gates of the Balkans from the east, while the Allied bomber squadrons are carrying devastation deep into the hinterland. You must know that the drone of Allied bombers is the signal for your downfall. A great pincers is now closing around the Balkans. There is no way out for "you. The Luftwaffe fights over Germany for its own life. The Fuhrer does not dare show his face at the front, and his reserves are pinned down" in the Atlantic Wall, Norway, Finland, and Italy, waiting for the invasion."
Herr Ribbentrop, in a statement to a Rumanian news agency, said: "If the enemy spreads rumours telling the Rumanian people that the German Command is considering the abandonment of Rumania on strategic grounds we can only laugh. We might just as well abandon Berlin. Rest assured, the German soldier will defend Rumanian soil like his own homeland." ■'■•■.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 82, 6 April 1944, Page 6
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