IN COLD AND DAMP
MANY NAZI SOLDIERS ILL A French observer quoted by the 8.8. C. at the week-end contrasted conditions in the French and Nazi lines on the Western Front. In the Maginot. Line the French troops were well housed and had electric kitchens and an adequate supply of hot food, but the vuarters inside the Siegfried Line were ill-ventilated and food had to be brought in Horn outside.
A message from Switzerland stated that 25 per cent of the men in the Siegfried Line were ill, chiefly with rheumatism and stomach trouble. Once the heavy armoured doors had been closed during an attack accompanied by heavy artillery bombardment, it was probable the men would be confined in damp, cold concrete blockhouses with little sleep or air. —By Radio.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 13
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130IN COLD AND DAMP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 13
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