Hasty German Flight From Alsace
Received Tuesday, a. 30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. Nazi officials with their entire households, office equipment and documents are now in hasty flight from Alsace to Germany, says Reuter’s Zurich correspondent, There is chaos on all roads to the Rhine bridges in Alsace. The Nazis believe there are only a few days left for the evacuation. Alsatians are awaiting their liberation. S.S. men armed with tommyguns are supervising everything. Their main activity is controlling tho removal of all food stocks. The potato harvest has been given priority even over machines which are being sent back to Germany. Krupps’ front-line factories- in Alsace and Siemens’ factories and aircraft works have ceased production. Forty thousand Alsaco and Baden workers have been herded to the work of fortifying the spurs of the Vosges Mountains north of the Belfort Gap in a last attempt to check the Allies.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 211, 6 September 1944, Page 5
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