Hitler’s Scorched Earth Policy in Italy
Reuter’s Lugano correspondent says diplomatic circles state that Hitler has assumed the same powers in Italy as in Germany according to orders he has personally issued on the policy the German occupying troops should follow. The orders include: Firstly: The Italian people should be regarded as traitors to the Axis which means that they are renegades and outcasts over whom individual German soldiers have the power of life and death as well as authority to requisition their private property for their own use.
Secondly: The scorched earth policy will be applied by official requisitioning whereby the German Army will augment its supplies and force the Italians to concentrate their energies on keeping body and soul together. Thirdly: Ablebodied Italians, first men then women, will be deported as labour slaves.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 223, 20 September 1943, Page 5
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