HOPE ABANDONED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1943, Page 3

HOPE ABANDONED

BV THE GERMAN PEOPLE HOPES THAT WAR WILL END SOON CHIEF TERRORS RED ARMY & AIR BOMBARDMENT. TESTIMONY OF REPATRIATED PRISONERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 26. The conviction that the Germans know they are beaten is held unanimously among repatriated war prisoners who arrived at Leith. Many men daily left the camps for work in the fields. They talked to Germans whom they came to know well. Hundreds of men echoed the one belief: “The Germans know they are at the end of their tether. They are saying that the war will be over in three to four months with the Allies victorious.” Men from widely-separated camps all agreed on that impression. Repatriatees said that many Germans hope for defeat by Britain and America before Christmas. The Germans’ chief terrors are the Red Army and aerial bombardment. The greatest hope of the ordinary German is that the British and American armies reach Berlin before the A contrast in the atmosphere of the homecoming Britons with that of the Germans is given by a German radio broadcast last night from Marseilles of the arrival of the first batch of Germans from Britain. Hitler personally sent a message to the men stating. “The homeland is not unworthy of you. It, too is suffering heavily in the struggle for life and death.