ALL PRISONERS SHOT
Nazi Propaganda About Allies (Received June 20, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. “To encourage his troops to fight, Rommel is telling them that the Allies shoot all their prisoners,” says the “Daily Mail” correspondent in Normandy. “Prisoners I have seen in the past few days have been quaking with fear. One panzer corporal was standing trembling before an interrogating officer when my driver fired a few rounds from his tommygun into the air just to keep it in trim. The prisoner shrieked in German, ‘Don’t shoot me; don’t shoot me.’ He said that every man had been told at least once a day that the British shot all prisoners. “Goebbels is also trying to whoop up courage by special broadcasts describing the devastation of London by the flying bombs. One broadcast said: ‘England cannot yvithstand this great weapon find must crumble and beg for peace.’ There is no doubt that propaganda regarding the shooting of prisoners induces a certain type of Germans to put up a stiffer opposition, particularly the 18-20-year-olds, who were members of the Hitler Youth four or even two years ago.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 5
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187ALL PRISONERS SHOT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 5
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