German Reign Of Terror In Italy
LONDON, September 28,
Berlin radio says that the Badoglio Government is functioning from Bari. The German reign of terror over Northern Italy has become as frightful as anything in their record of war crimes. They are raping, shooting, robbing and destroying in unrestrained fury against their former Allies, says Reuter's correspondent with the Fifth Army. Thousands of hunted refugees are coming over the mountains to Fifth Army outposts. They speak of Germans rounding up civilian men and taking them off northwards, nobody knows where, and dragging away women who are never seen again. When their orders are not instantly obeyed they start shooting. Whole families have been wiped out and stores of food stolen.
The Brindisi correspondent of the British United Press says that refugees from Rome say that the Germans shelled the centre of Rome before they entered the ,city and then looted it. They even held up civilians and took their watches and wallets.
Algiers radio says that the Germans are evacuating factories and workers from Naples. Small contingents of workers have already been transferred to Germany.
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1943, Page 4
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