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...curious vestige of the code of chivalry is the wartime treatment accorded captured officers by nations subscribing to the Geneva Convention. Last week, under this arrangement, General Jürgen von Arnim and Italian Field Marshal Giovanni Messe were settling down in England to sit the war out in comfortable detention...
...ranking Axis commanders in the Tunisia debacle were quartered in "camps" - actually country homes with spacious but well-guarded grounds. The tactful British planted them several miles apart; Messe and Arnim had differed sharply on strategy and were not speaking during the final days. Both are entitled to the stand ards of equivalent British officers living in mess. Thus they will fare better than Brit ish civilians, also better than Rudolf Hess, who is not a prisoner but an interned enemy alien...
...Italy lost many valuable officers. The Germans said last week that Field Marshal Rommel, who trained and commanded the Afrika Korps, left Africa last March for medical treatment, is still in Germany. Latest count last week of captured generals was 27, including Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who was flown to Britain (see cut), and Italy's Marshal Giovanni Messe...
...their hostage list. He gathered some convert Jews and other trusted friends, held a last secret religious service. Then he went into hiding. The Italians and Nazis were hot after him, and eight times he was forced to seek new shelter. Once he shivered: General von Arnim set up headquarters in the next villa; one night, when he slipped back to the old rectory to fetch some medicine, the Nazis moved into his refuge, and he escaped capture only because friends tipped...
...They've been led up the garden path by Arnim," a British general remarked...