NAZI’S CONFESSION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 262, 3 October 1940, Page 7

NAZI’S CONFESSION

UNBEARABLE STRAIN.

DESIRE TO END WAR

(United Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press has circulated confessions and impressions of a German pilot who has bombed London homes.

The pilot, who is a University graduate, when asked what it feels like to drop a high-explosive on a closelycrowded suburb, replied: “We nuisn’t think of one’s task in terms of humans. One must consider purely the military command we have got to carry out. The actual discharge of the bomb brings relief from a strain that has become almost unbearable. “X mutter, ‘Thank God that’s over, as I give the bomb release signal. We are facing death night after night. The searchlights had us pincered and we narrowly escaped an entanglement of balloon barrages and anti-aircraft fire. “There is another factor: Letters from our families tell of nights spent in air raid shelters. They ask when this accursed war is ending.

“Then, proceeding to London, we switch on the radio and hear the . gayest music from the 8.8. C. It makes us mad to think these English have the nerve to play jolly tunes as though nothing is happening. I drop bombs and feel the best way to end the war is to cause as much destruction as possible. I feel relaxed when I see a crater or the leap of flames.”