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(N.Z.E.F. Official News Service) CAIRO, March 2.
A German taken prisoner in the Western Desert said: “When England continued fighting after the fall of France, I began to wonder whether there wasn’t something phoney about this English decadence, about which we had so often heard. Now we wonder why we were ever silly enough to believe it.”
German prisoners still refuse to believe that things are going badly for them in Russia. “It is quite impossible that we shouldn’t be able to beat Russia,” said one. Yet most of them obviously had more than a reluctant glimmering of dark days to come.
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Southland Times, Issue 24684, 4 March 1942, Page 5
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