THE LAST STRAW
NAZI STARVING OF CAPTIVES LONDON, April' 23. Commenting upon a picture of three British prisoners of war in an advanced state of malnutrition, the "Daily Mail" says: "While this cruelty is practised on the good-humoured soldiers of the British race, German prisoners of war in Britain are being fed twice as well as British civilians, and infinitely better than the people in the liberated .countries. It' is an appalling contrast which has aroused the just anger of the British people." The newspaper, recalls the provisiqns of the Geneva Convention for feeding prisoners, and adds that: "These could be accepted if the Germans played fair, but their deliberate hunger policy is the last straw. No comment we could make, however savage, could approach the bitter irony of'the facts." .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 7
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130THE LAST STRAW Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 7
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