GERMAN CORPSE FACTORY
WAS IT A MYTH? INTERESTING CONTROVERSY. Received Oct. 23, 9.30 p.m. • LONDON, Oct. 23. Controversy has arisen concerning a reported speech in New York, in which Brigadier-General Charteris is alleged to have declared that the war time story of a German corpse factory, in which bodies were boiled down for munitions fat, was an invention for propaganda purposes. A War Office official declined to comment, saying that Brigadier-Genetal Charteris may have been wrongly reported, or have been speaking facetiously. An official of tho Intelligence Department during the war said he had seen the diary of a German soldier, in which there were allusions to tho subject.
It will be remembered that doubt arose whether the German word for corpse referred to human beings hs well as animals.’-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 7
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