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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1945

‘Says Nazis Lied fo Stir Hatred Among Prisoners

By “B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent HANNOVER, Germany, April 20. —Beside the shockingly brutal treatment of allied war prisoners in Germany -lies an organized effort to. create enmity among the captives by turning Am*ichn ‘egainst © Briton and An- ¢ glo-Ametican againgt Russian, Two British

prisoners, Pvts, Robert Stockdale | and ‘John Pattof, : whp had been captured on the Dodecanese island of lero . in. 1043, .: .~ re told me of this Mr. McQuaid practice when I talked with them

- here,

‘They revealed that 150 Americans were brought to the Hannover prison enclosure after being captured in the Ardennes offensive and were

starved and beaten by their prison |

guards. “8S. 8S. men in command of the camp apparently thought that it was necessary to break the spirits of the Americans just as they had tried to break ours when we were first brought here,” Patton said, Lied About Rations “When the Americans came in they began starving them. They offered the ridiculous argument that since the Americans had no Ger-

give them food. It was at least five days before they fed them, but_dur-

ing that time we British 1adsSnan-|

aged to slip them some bread.

“But a little later, after the Ger-|

mans finally began feeding them,

we noticed that the Yanks weren't speaking to us except ta curse us,

and were giving§us bitter looks. We

couldn’t understand until one of | their lads managed to gel near] enough to us one day to explain |

that the Germans had told them the camp authorities asked the

British to give them part of the | British Red Cross rations on loah|

until the Americans started coming

through. The Germans said we had |

refused to agree.”

Actually, Patton said, the British |

had volunteered through German

camp authorities to give the Ameri-| cans half their rations, but the Ger-

mans refused the offer and told,

the Americans an exactly opposite story. ] Favors for Russians * Another freed British prisoner {with whom I talked, Sgt. William Meczes, who ‘was captured in Greece in 1941, reported that treatment of allied prisoners at the big Goerlitz and Gross Traelitz camps in eastfern Germany was atrocious except [that for some reason the Germans |ostentatiously favored the Russians at the expense of the British and Americans, " “ Meczes related new incidents of the now infamous 500-mile’ march

from eastern to western Germany

by 40,000 allied prisoners. "At one point, he said, the wrisoner column was joined with wehrmacht units traveling west. Two thousand Americans were made to adopt close marching order while the German soldiers beside them spread out in loose © formation. When strafing

human camouflage had the desired effect and the Americans were machine gunned. One hundred and ninety fell dead or wounded.

Qopyvigh! 1945, by The Indianapolis Times nd The Chicago Daily News, Inc !

‘Hails President | For a Handshake

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U

| P.).—At 8:30 a. m. today the large man ration coupons they could not|

front door of Blair house opened and down the graceful old front steps came President Truman, moving at a rapid clip toward the White House.

As he reached the bottom of the steps, a voice rang out over the heads of the secret service convoy. “Mr. President!” The President turned and saw a small, smiling old lady standing behind the secret service agents with her arm outstretched. Mr. Truman took off his hat and smiled, and walked over ‘to the woman, ¢ “I just wanted to shake hands,” | she said. The President shook hands with her warmly, then started down Pennsylvania ave. for his 250-yard walk to the White House.

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