USE OF POLES
SIGNIFICANT OF SHORT MAN POWER (Rec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, July 15. Another despatch tells of the capture of Polish troops in the German army. Two were brothers who fought in the Polish army and were prisoners in a German prison camp. One actually fought in the Polish army against the Germans, and then had heen captured, released, and conscripted into the German army. Most came from the Polish Corridor 'or Danzig, or Upper Silesia, and because of their German names were listed as racial Germans. Most of them were 19 to 20 years old, and had had six or eight months' training. As soon as posisble they got across to the Americans. They could scarcely find words enough to express their delight at being captured. As the correspondent adds, this seems to be another glaring example of Hitler's shortage or man power. The German army in its prime would never have sent into the front line troops who could not speak German, and who must, from personal experience, be anti-German.
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Evening Star, Issue 24918, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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173USE OF POLES Evening Star, Issue 24918, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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