CRY OF “BARBARISM”
NAZIS OBJECT TO R.A.F. BOMBINGS “DELIBERATE TERROR POLICY” (Rec. 9.45 a.m.) Rugby, Mar. 10. The cry of “barbarism” from German propagandists is increasingly piercing as the fury of R.A.F. raids increases. German reports emphasise hits on houses, hospitals and historic buildings. Radio commentators assert this is the result of a deliberate terror policy. One commentator, Willi Baehr. said: “It is the basic principle of German war methods to preserve civilian life, but the British and Americans are utterly cynical and have not a word of sympathy for women and children killed or wounded.”
“Had anyone before the war prophesied that such gaps would be torn in German cities we would have been terrified,” said Berlin radio’s Hans Fritsche ,“but in the war’s fourth year we have become used to a battle for dear life.”—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 11 March 1943, Page 5
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137CRY OF “BARBARISM” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 11 March 1943, Page 5
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