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Lili Marlene first became a war song when it was broadcast by a Nazi radio in Belgrade, and was picked up by the homesick soldiers of Rommel's Afrika Korps. It also spoke to the hearts of homesick British soldiers. Lili Marlene became the favorite battle song of Montgomery's Eighth Army...
Confined at Fort McClellan, Ala. are 2,736 troops of the Lujtwaffe and Rommel's once great Afrika Korps. There are other Nazi prisoners in sprawling Fort Dix, N J. The U.S. Army last week gave newsmen a look at these two prison camps...
...Much the same sort of thing was found by the visitors who went through the prisoner camp at Fort Dix. There, however, the Geneva Convention rule was circumvented by Army officers, who put questions to a spokesman for the prisoners-a blond young mining engineer wearing a peaked Afrika Korps...
Round-faced Sergeant Heinrich Kikillus, 32, and hard-faced Sergeant Erhard Schwichtenberg, sometime members of Rommel's hard-boiled Afrika Korps, were held as witnesses. Their punishment will not be hard. Private Maple...
...British Eighth and Afrika Korps faced each other as on a line of scrimmage. Montgomery had the ball. His right halfback (44th Division) started the play by faking to the left and drawing off the defense. His left half (50th Division) took a fake from the quarterback, then plunged through center. Meanwhile, the fullback (United Kingdom's armored division) had started to the left. Quickly he doubled back, took the ball from the quarterback (51st Highlanders) and sliced through the right side of his line, between the defensive left and tackle. His guard (9th Australians) blocked the defensive halfback...