BELOW STRENGTH
NEW YORK, June 15,
German divisions in the invasion area are below strength, says Mr Hanson Baldwin, New York Times military writer, who is aboard the United* States cruiser Augusta, off Normandy. “The German coast defence divisions were composed of 50 per cent, impressed foreigners. The Nazi S.S. guards, inheritors of the Elite Guards’ tradition, are no longer all Nazi Party members. Of the first 5000 German, prisoners, only 5 per cent. Were Nazi Party members. The German equipment is good and fairly plentiful, except for planes, but the German Army is not' what it was a year ago.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 5
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