STATING THE FACTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1943, Page 3

STATING THE FACTS

ADROIT BELGIAN REPLY. TO NAZI APPEAL FOR WORKERS. Hitler’s efforts to recruit workers from the occupied countries for the Nazi slave-market in Germany have not yet reached the direct compulsion stage in Belgium as they have in France, though they are heading that way. Belgian towns are plastered with notices inviting the workers, in persuasive terms a la the spider to the fly, to go to Germany to work. Belgians, however, have evolved an adroit form of reply, addressed direct to the German people. They have printed leaflets, in the German language, which read to this effect: “A Belgian who goes to work in Germany releases a German for the Russian front: that is to say, he sends one more German to death.” , The Belgians manage to slip a number of these into the pockets of German soldiers in the Army of Occupation. It must be something of a shock to the Germans who find these in their pockets to reflect on the naked logic of the message: that the more Belgians they coerce to go .across the frontier the more of their numbers will go to their death.