POSITIONAL WARFARE
NOTEBOOK OF A NAZI IN RUSSIA. Extracts from a notebook found on the body of a German artillery officer killed on the Leningrad front, published in “Soviet War News”:— “This is what our fathers told us about so often—positional warfare. A tremendous network of trenches covers our advanced line. Ahead of us is a battlefield looking just as Verdun must have looked Disabled tanks, guns, all kinds of arms, helmets and various other equipment and bodies are lying all around —in enormous quantities “We are fighting the lice as best we can. This morning I was overjoyed to be able to wash with warm water, change my shirt and shave. There are tremendous numbers of rats scurrying round. Some of them are as big as cats. “Hundreds of bodies can be seen on the barbed wire. They pollute the air. Positional warfare rules our lives and makes us live like animals ... I am acting as observer with the infantry on the advanced lines about 100 yards from the Russians. Here one suffers from hallucinations —one mistakes some .tree stump for a Russian. “The men are nervous, setting off flares and opening unnecessary machine gun fire. I can hear the Russians’ voices . . .” That was the last entry in the notebook. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1943, Page 3
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