WAVE OF EXECUTIONS
German Defeatist
LONDON, January 7. Tlie flagging of morale in Germany is nipped in the bud by death sentences, and IF is impossible for any group to organise a revolution to overthrow the Nazis, says the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper “Tidningen” The correspondent adds that a collapse on the German front could be precipitated by doubt as to whether to go on fighting, but doubters are being punished by death, and the wave of executions in recent months has frightened the Germans and quieted defeatist talk. The German people have been stripped of all possibilities of organising a revolution. Opposition to. or criticism of the regime, is crushed by the all-powerful Himmler organisation. The Germans would not hesitate to conduct wholesale massacres tn order to wipe out revolt. German officials acknowledge that the Allied total war in the air is now the biggest home-front, as well as military, problem confronting them.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22786, 10 January 1944, Page 5
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156WAVE OF EXECUTIONS Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22786, 10 January 1944, Page 5
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