FRENCH PRISONERS
STARVED BY GERMANS. LYING PROPAGANDA PICTURES. A Frenchman made prisoner by the Germans during the attack on Calais in 1940, who has just escaped to Britain to join the Fighting French, has given the following picture of German treatment of prisoners: “I was taken to Germany by fatiguing marches through Belgium and Holland, sleeping in the fields at night and receiving no other food than what the inhabitants at great risk to themselves gave us. From the Germans I received nothing. “At one place in Belgium I saw a magnificent German field kitchen arrive, with nurses in white dresses. They began- to distribute soup while a Nazi film unit took pictures of the scene for propaganda purposes. But only some 15 prisoners were served with soup —just sufficient to make a few hundred feet of propaganda film. The distribution came to a sudden end, with some sort of pretext that the prisoners were not keeping good order.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1943, Page 4
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