BRITISH “MIXED BAG”
ADMIRAL, WRENS, CREWS LONDON, April 23. The British Second Army’s_ “mixed bag” in the past 24 hours included Admiral Siegfried Engel and 500 German “Wrens” wearing bell-bottom trousers and navy blue jackets, a circus with two wounded elephants, two wounded bears, Marlene Dietrich’s sister and a Luftwaffe officer, von Cramm, a brother of the Davis Cup player, two genuine "Werewolves,” over 4500 assorted German soldiers, sailors, airmen and scores of liberated British prisoners. Reuter's correspondent says that the Wrens were found when the whole administrative staff of the German Commander-in-Chief on the North Sea surrendered at Buxthede. The girls waved the admiral good-bye when Royal Marine Commandos whisked him off in an armoured car and wept bitterly when the naval earrison was taken off in a truck to the prisoner-of-war cages.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21697, 26 April 1945, Page 7
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134BRITISH “MIXED BAG” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21697, 26 April 1945, Page 7
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