NAZI GUERRILLAS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5

NAZI GUERRILLAS

Training Scnoois Set Up (R . e f', 7 ' 30 P- m -> LONDON, Oct. 3. At least 3,000,000 German guerrillas Anitt Ca rt y fight against the Allies after Hitler s armies are defeated, says the Stockholm correspondf’ie.“Daily Express.” Fanatical youn„ Nazis are being trained in two guerrilla schools.

The story of Hitler’s plans for this guerrilla warfare were given me by an Allied official who for six months has been Collecting evidence about them.” Nazi guerrillas are being trained on three main principles: (1) Guerrilla fighting in towns and cities is more suitable to German conditions than partisan warfare in the mountains and wild country; (2) equipment is mainly limited to such weapons .as can be carried by one or two men; (3) the b-st secret weapon is often a simple trick"' Tire correspondent adds: “At the beginning of this year, at a conference at Hitlers headquarters, it was decided to create an ‘underground Wehrmacht.’ Within three months two special schools had been established for partisan bands. One of these schools was near Konigsberg, and the other jn an ancient castle at Kuestrin’ on the river Oder. The commandant of the Kuestrin school was Major Wagner who led many punitive expeditions into Poland and the Ukraine, and is regarded as one of Germany’s greatest experts on guerrilla warfare.”