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MEN OF NAZI FORCES 1 *■ ri 'VACTUAL WAR IN WEST TREATY WITH RUSSIA OPEN (Reed. Oct. 17, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, Oet. 16. The British War Otflce has announced^ 3 further derails concerning the examination of German prisoners by the 'fVench Army. :C The examination sliows' that the German rank and file, som« Wfeeks after the outbreak of being told'that there was no War 1 §nd thriy? were unaware of thW'adtual hostilities ifr the ' west until they were captrired as prisoners from quiet 1 »■’• ■•■’•w-< They 1 ' believed they were on manoeuvres 1 -being informed" that the firing'they- had heard ' Was - target practice? Wad blasting. ’ They were convinced that the Fuehrer'’would get everytiiin'g -without war,'- and: that the Polish conquest was k walk-pveir; One Germkn Wbten apprised of the Said it was the Fuehrer’s ruse ”in "order‘to trap the Russians, whom h he "hated: beyond anything else*'-iffi Another prisoner refused to believe that Germariy Wa¥ allied with Russia or that Gerfiibny wa^ 'fighting England and FraiiSilphtit said that if it were true thefe"'would ; be 1 trouble, adding: “But norf ; at first; because, as we do not think for ourselves any more, it will take some time to' realise that we have been deceived.” u i*v
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20071, 18 October 1939, Page 7
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