NAZIS' VAIN HOPE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 171, 19 June 1944, Page 4

NAZIS' VAIN HOPE.

In an effort to gain a more favourable reputation with Britain, the Germans are treating British prisoners with greater respect, according to reports received by British Bed Cross officials. , These reports support a statement made by repatriated prisoners of war who reached Britain recently that the Germans "fattened up" the .men. for three weeks before they left- the prison camps. Similar tactics

were adopted by the Germans before the end of the last war, and the enemy must think that it is worth while to try them again. The Nazis' record is, however, a much blacker one than was that of the armies under the Kaiser, and the wanton destruction of life and property to satisfy the Huns' bloodlust has built up an enormous volume in which are written the names of many murderers and their heinous crimes. The Allies have solemnly declared that the perpetrators of the outrages that have shocked the world will be brought to justice and punished. It is a duty to humanity to apprehend the criminals if the world is to be rid of war-mongers when peace has been restored. The Germans in the heyday of their military power have behaved like wild beasts in their vicious treatment of their victims, and the Allies, united as never before in their determination to bring permanent peace to the World, are not likely to be deceived by a display of virtue 1 by the Nazis at the eleventh hour.