DELUDED GERMANS
A New Zealander writing to his parents at Wanganui states that young German seamen taken prisoners in the Indian Ocean by H.M.S. Leander looked very anaemic. Italian prisoners looked far healthier than the Germans, he said. Some of the men on the Leander tried to tell the prisoners that they were on a New Zealand warship, but they simply would not believe this. “They said the colonies were not in the war and had let England down, with the result that England was fighting on her own,” he added. “We could not convince them otherwise. It just goes to show how much the average German knows about the war and who he is fighting.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24633, 14 June 1941, Page 8
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