Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1943 — Page 7

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Won't Crack as Soon As Some Hope. By THOMAS M. JOHNSON

shaping up for & second internal collapse. Morale is the trickiest of all the! _imponderable factors of war. But ‘a balancing of facts indicates that is not yet ready to crack, and that the situation still is quite

Then “the German ‘army “had endured four years of inténse fight-|| ing, instead of, as now, two years of intense fighting and two of pushovers. Then they had scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel, hustled 16-year-old boys and disloyal Poles and Lorrainers into “crack” units such as the Guard. Divisions were shredded to the size of regiments, There were no reserves. |

Little More Than Begun

‘Today this process has little more than begun. Then the Hun really had lost his morale. Opposite the Americans, many deserted, and behind the lines thousand straggled and staggered. dead drunk while{] their commander, the celebrated

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Gen. Von Gallwits, had..to. bell.

guarded lest they assassinate him. Today German troops in Italy and Russia still fight bravely even

though they are in retreat—and|f

“this is the surest proof of good morale. Today German equipment is almost as good as ours; in 1918, the enemy's automobiles had iron _tires, guns had -worn-out- linings, _ ammunition was short, ; “The "home “Iroft collapsed primary because of near-starvation. Germany today has had no terrible “turnip winters,” though it certain« ly is under-fed.

Not All Bombed

Germany - have been relatively so safe that their people do not realize {| what heavy bombing means; “will they, until it strikes them full force. The day approaches, but winter weather will slow up bomb- : ing from our new Italian bases. — Although bombing may make the 5 to

Though Hitler's multiloquence is now muffled, his is still their mas-| ter's voice. Not only the S. S., but millions of German soldiers and

man soldiers lately captured, notably the older men, show loss of faith, but the majority still are sullen fanatics.

history. For 10 years the Germans have been taught that black is white —and the Germans are a very a teachablé people. In 1918 thers] - was nothing like the Nazi propaganda and censorship of today. Only ~7% relative few are reached by Allied propaganda, and still fewer believe it.

Will Crack Someday

day—probibly at home before it does at the front. Without heavy bombing, that day would not come

more if German army chiefs orjl others should overthrow Hitler and . attempt to make peace. That may happen sooh. ‘The Nazis may be

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