MORALE LOW
GERMANS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE. Too many reports of lowered morale among the Germans in France are reaching this country for there not to be some truth behind them. Here is a letter recently received from France: — “Enemy troops are concentrated here. The inhabitants are obliged to give them lodging, but they do so grudgingly. All the inhabitants say, “If only they were English, how we should receive them with joy!” “Many of the enemy are aware of this attitude and are furious. Their morale is as low as it can be. When alone with civilians they often speak of having had enough of the war and talk of breaking their rifles and marching off home. “Bravo for the R.A.F. We all hope they will bombard the Germans more and more. The Germans here tell us Berlin has been evacuated and they ask everyone if it is true that America has declared war on Germany.
“I believe that if you landed here they would run before you. “Marshal Petain has lost three-quar-ters of his prestige.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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176MORALE LOW Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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