DISPLAYS FOR GERMANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 7

DISPLAYS FOR GERMANS

SOCIAL PROBLEMFOR SHAEF (By Telegraph—Press Association—co«v.miu.i Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, May 25, Horror camp pictures are being exhibited in public places throughout Germany, captioned "Who is guilty? The military government has ordered displays which show the most horrible scenes. . ~ Reuters correspondent in south Bavaria said ,that small crowds gathered all day. He noticed expressions of horror, but none of incredulity. "Nowhere in Europe are there huskier girls and young women than in northern Germany. Most of them behave as though they would welcome I the suspension of the Allied rule I against fraternisation," says the correspondent of the Associated Press ot Great Britain at British 2nd Army headquarters. "All this is adding to the problems of the Allied officers who are trying to keep the occupying troops from mingling with German civilians. Various British detachments have had to fence themselves in; to keep civilians away from the areas of their billets. Wherever British vehicles park in the towns, groups of girls_ and young women lounge in the vicinity or parade back and forth before the soldiers. Officers whose men camped for several days on a beach near ; Bremen said that German females dis- ! ported themselves in the scantiest bathing suits. "The army is combating the problem by setting up rest { camps and leave areas in Denmark and Holland, where the troops may mingle with civilians, and are also undertaking large-scale entertainment and educational programmes to help bolster the non-fraternisation rule." NO ALLIED TRADING. ' It was disclosed- at SHAEF' that Al-1 lied commercial activity at present is not being permitted inside Germany. The job of supplying world news for the German Press has been given jto an organisation called the Allied i Press Service, with a staff drawn from the political intelligence department of the British Foreign Office and the Office of War Information, says the British United Press correspondent at I SHAEF. The organisation, which is | located in London, radios a daily synthesis of material available from the usual news agency, and other sources

!to the Continent. Special staffs will supervise local German newspapers, exei'cising a strict censorship on local news. Allied newspapers are already being published in Essen, Cologne, Frankfurt; Kassel, and Munich. Prague radio says that Czech police seized a secret German transmitter in a suburb of Prague. The transmitter was sending out anti-Czech slogans and threats that the Germans would soon return and "cover -the streets of Prague with Czech skulls."