PROTECTION SHIELD
GERMAN USE FOR PRISONERS NEW YORK, December 5. The Germans used 69 United States prisoners as a shield to protect their movements during a counter-attack on Übach when the Allies first penetrated the Siegfried Line, | First Lieutenant Am, of the United States army, told a Chicago "Sun" correspondent that the American prisoners were taken during a counterattack in which the Germans recaptured some pill-boxes. "The Germans marched the prisoners into the woods with their hands over their heads, and, of course, we held our fire," he said. 'A few minutes later the Germans marched the prisoners out again and made them line up across a field. They were using them as a shield to get reinforcements to the piil-boxes they had recaptured. We could see Germans running along behind them, but there was nothing we could do about it. The prisoners were taken back to the woods when the Germans had brought up their reinforcements. The Americans immediately began shelling the pill-boxes, and fighterbombers attacked with 5001b bombs. The Germans withdrew and the position was restored."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5
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