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...future biographers of Adolf Hitler Frederick C. Oechsner, longtime (twelve years) United Press Central European manager just home from internment, offered a juicy sheaf of notes. Items...
Westward across the German border in staff cars rolled Louis Lochner of Associated Press, Frederick Oechsner of United Press, Pierre J. Huss of Hearst's International News Service, over roads packed with advancing Nazi columns...
...noticed more hatred in people's eyes than in Aerschot, ten miles northeast of Louvain. . . . I suppose the population takes me for a German. If looks could have killed, I would be a corpse today. . . ." Said a Belgian woman, wife of a soldier at the front, to Frederick Oechsner: "I must say the attitude of the German soldiers has been very correct and orderly...
...Basic Nazi technique of systematically shocking and sickening the population, making it apathetically submissive to totalitarian control, was worked hard. Last week Germans took United Pressman Fred Oechsner on a tour of captured Polish villages, showed him the bodies of 25 villagers, claimed they had been mutilated and killed by retreating Poles...
...Atrocity" story-of-the-week came not from France or Britain but from Germany. Frederick Oechsner, United Press correspondent with the German Army in Poland, cabled that he had seen 25 bodies in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), supposedly civilians of German blood who had been killed and mutilated by retreating Poles. German officers claimed there were 800 others who had met the same death...