WAR REVELATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1943, Page 3

WAR REVELATIONS

DEPRESSION AMONG SOLDIERS. NAZI DISTRICT COMMISSIONER CAPTURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 14. The depression among the Germans at their failure to hold the Dnieper line is typified in a German soldier’s letter home, which stated: “I, on the Dnieper, possess only what I wear. We have left everything because the enemy is constantly at our heels. We look like pigs. I have no soap, no razor, and no towel. Pray for me.” The Russians have captured the German district commissar for Melitopol, Herr Georg Heinisch, who lived in the town in great style for two years. He was responsible for deportations, and for ruthless brutality against those evading deportation, and he admitted that 8000 young girls and boys had been “accepted” into Germany in the past two years. A letter which was found on a German paratroop corporal at Termoli, Italy, from a relative stationed in northern Italy, said: “We live on Italian produce. You had better not ask how we get it. We keep the Italians’ kitr chens busy, and they serve us like princes. I think that is right; the Italian swine must be bled.”