COMPLAINTS IN REICH
TREATMENT OF GERMAN SOLDIERS (Recd. 9.5 p.m.) London, Jan. 4. An officially-inspired campaign is proceeding in Germany with the view 5f bridging the widening gulf between the home and military Ironts, says the Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent.
The Nazi press recently was severely chastising the people for their attitude to wounded or men on leave. One newspaper denounces narrowminded people who boredly say: "I do not want to hear anything more about war or politics. I am fed up with the whole affair.”
A Hamburg restaurant owner has been arrested for refusing a table to wounded soldiers when several tables were vacant.
The newspaper warns that people must not use compartments in trains reserved for wounded soldiers, and adds that unpleasant scenes have occurred in Leipzig. The newspaper gives several instances of churlisnness towards soldiers, even among children. A soldier in a letter in this pape. says: "We no longer notice this impoliteness but it hurts.” The National Zeitung contains a letter exhorting the homeland not to forget the military front despite the trials and tribulations of everyday life.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 4, 6 January 1943, Page 5
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