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This description of the plight of German soldiers came not from Russian sources but from a Nazi correspondent, for Herr Goebbels has apparently decided that the best way to toughen German citizens is to scare them stiff. The report added: "The perpetual order is: positions must be held until retreat is ordered, and the order must be carried out at any price. Thus there are endless marches through night and darkness. . . . More than once entire regiments-and once an entire division-have had to fight a way through to our own lines...
...overseas decorations to home services, declaring that he declined to "expand, inflate or dilute the currency" of Britain's medals. Leave that to the Germans, he said, who created 80 decorations in the last war and diluted the Iron Cross until it had little value except to "Herr Hitler, who, it is alleged, gave it to himself some time later." Tactfully Mr. Churchill refrained from mentioning...
Reason for all this was that a U.S. patrol had captured the command post. The invitation to enter was shouted by its commander Lieut. Paul M. Koerner of Pontiac, 111. Der Herr Hauptmann was in a ravine outside, quite dead...
...afternoon, in a village near Cassino, German soldiers walked up to the door of a battalion command post, clicked heels, saluted snappily and called out: "1st der Herr Hauptmann da?" The answer was always the same: "Ja, der Hauptmann ist hier." Each German strode confidently into the building-and out of the war, a prisoner...
...German businessmen and Army and Navy officers who pass through Sweden each week, and who will now be able to buy a copy of our Scandinavian Edition on any good newsstand for only a krona-to read in TIME a lot of unpalatable war-truths that Herr Goebbels has been trying to keep from them...