RHINELAND CIVILIANS
HOSTILITY TO AMERICANS (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 21. German civilians in some of the Rhineland towns are showing hostility to American occupation troops, says Reuter’s correspondent with the Thiru Army. A 70-year-old civilian at Oppenhaetsen drew a knife and stabbed a telephone operator of the Ninetieth Infantry Division while he was working a switchboard. No sooner was he dragged out into the street than he began stoning a nearby military policeman, who drew a pistol on his assailant and took him to a prisoner-of-war cage. There is a considerable amount of stone-throwing at Krsuznach. An American soldier said a middle-aged German woman threw a pail of water at him. “These sullen, arrogant women are taking advantage of their sex to make things unpleasant for us,” he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25800, 22 March 1945, Page 5
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