“GIGANTIC MASSACRE”
No Polish Prisoners Taken EVERYONE WITHIN SIGHT SHOT Frank Admissions by German Officer COPENHAGEN, September 13. (Received September 14, at 1 p.m.) “ German tanks in Poland are even more successful than it was imagined they could be, but at what a cost. Modem warfare will prove it is nothing but a gigantic massacre. Thus a German army corps officer who recently returned to Berlin from Poland summed up his impressions in the course of an interview with the * Politiken’s ’ Berlin correspondent. “The Germans have lost at least 15,000 men on the Polish front,” he said. “It is impossible to estimate the Polish losses, but they must be between 150,000 and 300,000. We readily admit it was most deplorable, but we found it impossible to take prisoners. We had to shoot everyone within sight because of the fear that some might get behind our tanks. Moreover we had nobody to take charge of prisoners, thus we have scarcely any prisoners as we have to shoot everyone. The Poles are very courageous fighters. - It won’t be an easy task to conquer Poland because we shall have to kill every soldier before the nation is likely to give in.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 11
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198“GIGANTIC MASSACRE” Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 11
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