GERMAN POLICY
WAR FACTS DENIED TO SOLDIERS PRISONERS IN STATE OF IGNORANCE. FIRE OPENED ON ALLIED LOUD SPEAKERS. The Nazis are as anxious to prevent their soldiers on the Western Front from listening to news of the outside world as they are to stop citizens from listening in, a Daventry broadcast states. The French found that soldiers taken prisoners were quite ignorant of political events and of the military situation. The French authorities thereupon broadcast with loud speakers news of the war for the benefit of the other side. The first time this was done the Nazi soldiers Hocked out to listen, lhe second lime they were ordered back by their officers and lhe third time machine-gun fire was opened completely drowned the loud speakers. NAZI VERSION “PRIMITIVE & INSULTING” LOUD SPEAKERS. (Received This Day, 9 55 a.m.) LONDON, February 11. A German radio message said: “Our machine-gun fire silenced Allied loudspeakers on the Western Front because of their primitive and insulting nature. The French answered our fire, resulting in a lively exchange, but the loudspeakers remained silent.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 5
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177GERMAN POLICY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 5
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