CRUELTY REFINEMENT
GERMAN MOTHERS MUST NOT SHOW GRIEF j “People of Berlin are In a trance," writes a Danish newspaper correspondent, quoted by Reuter. “A lot must happen before they awake and realise that the war is now really beginning. They are taken in by the propaganda that there will be no war to such an extent that it will be a terrible awakening. “On the corner of the street I saw a grey-haired woman standing in the cold, her eyes red with crying. I had bought papers from her, and as she knew I was a foreigner, she was able to confide in me when 1 asked what was the matter. “She took from her pocket a card from the colonel of the regiment in which her son was a private. It bore the bare words ‘Fallen on the field of honour.’ “She sobbed out that she was a widow. She was not allowed to wear any mourning for her son, nor to tell any ond of his death, so that she could get no comfort from any <ne. "This appears to me to be one of he biggest cruelties of the war, that ■.e poor mother could share her grief th no one.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20143, 12 January 1940, Page 4
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