GERMANS’ FEAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1940, Page 4

GERMANS’ FEAR

BRITISH INHUMANITY It seems to be fairly well established that German pilots have been convinced, through the Nazi propaganda methods, that the British are inhuman beings, who mercilessly mutilate any pilots who are unfortunate enough; to fall into their hands. I Writing from England recently, a] doctor in one of the hospitals desi cribes how a German machine was j shot down in flames in a wood and the pilot taken prisoner. • “He was badly burnt about the face and chest,” writes the doctor, “and he had a broken arm. He was taken to the hospital, and his face, including his eyes, had to be dressed ' and bandaged. A few hours later, | when he had recovered from the,

shock,- he told one of. the nurses in ) German, that he knew they had goug-1 ed out his eyes and cut off his feet.' They told him, in Germany, that pil-) ots were always treated in that way) in England.

“It was only the next time his face was dressed and he was able to open his eyes and was shown his feet that he realised that all was well, and that we are not so black as we are painted by Goebbels and his fiendish propaganda.”