European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes weekly january 1945 the stars and str1pes Mediterranean Dot fit of the armed forces puts Hwy saturday Jar to oops to Italy under the auspices of the information and Irful Bortiri my talons Roben Neute executive Robert Chru Timon Ltd Hill fiscal it w tout my via Del tritone to the n my a my bunding Tele Mitra Tlam expect thre Foht hmm night pfc one acknowledgement is made of the editorial Serr tees supplied by the United nations Rrt service and the army hews stars to tropes is a rated at fee Plant o ii 152 via yank vol january ims sgt Dave off Siam Silesia imperilled Arsenal bib Stanley Grayson b Tom George Don Joe Bob Barry Peter furst Bob Howard Dave Hutcheson Mel Bob i Cau aboard a Libert the Crews mess the old danish Teaman looked around and with a shrug said never in my life saw such a Here they Are in a new and they sit music As Art dear editor i would Tike to make a reply to a letter written Fey Ted Naum off in a recent Issue of the stars and Hiis is merely to take a stand in defense of music As a and not to criticize the Cor poral for what he i Slont approve of the Banning of the tote japanese neither would i condemn the radio networks for per mitting Loffi Marlene to ride its Way to Fame on our in spite of All we it is still i know the song Lili mar 1 it is a love and love in its True sense is something far greater than its some thing that knows no no no races nor j if we ban a piece of music merely because h bears the word Japan or because it is of germanic that would deprive us of some of the worlds most renowned while Many of the German people still thrive on spilled and we can still remember such Doodle As Schub and these men knew no Hitler or they had no ties with they left behind them musical Art that expressed some thing far too deep for the feeble minds of the prussian warmongers to i dont have to be convinced that it would be highly improper to play the German National Anthem be tween station yet no one can make me believe that Brahms Lullaby could inspire a nation to torture and murder As the nazi leaders Are teaching their people to do lets keep music As a Fine Art and not use it As a weapon for waging firebug dear editor in reply to Lac mail have an idea As to strengthening the this consists of the War veterans of each and every country participating in the present War organising an International similar to our America each country would have its own legion and elect delegates to the International which would Convene annually to discuss its this International legion would and what do you think of sailors these Days outside it was and the Quay was banked with there were arc lights on deck and the stevedores were working the i the ship was berthed in a far 1 a Good Hal hours hitch to nothing said the Young Navy theres nothing in this two of them had made their Way ashore in the they had looked in at the gis bed Cross found that they had seen the movies in town two months ago in had tried to talk with two girls in a laundry without and spent 15 minutes looking at the bombed out nothing in these the Young gunner when i was a Young in there was something in every rain the old danish Sailor now its and All the time chess the first night in a new a have Only one policy to prevent future it would operate on a very High and humanitarian plane similar to the International red when this War is fascism will not be it will Only be waiting quietly for another loud Mouth such As Hitler or to ride Onward to Victory Over the Little such As you and after have to fight these i believe an International legion would bring these firebug out into the open so they could be dealt with properly they set the world on fire this would certainly strengthen the shame dear editor re your Issue of mail cleanest we would like to know what outfit William the frontline is attached we have spent Many Days not 55 on the front line in Snow or and the Only Way we can see a Man keeping that with shoes shined and clean shoe would be Riding around i a command car or a Piper and 55 consecutive Days without a a Junoel shame we doubt it because weve tried Bill Jive Roo the 5th army Mobile radio Sta Tion had on a Duke Ellington half and a wiper from the Black gang who had once been a drum Mer in a Kansas City band played with two knives on a the chess players made no they were completely in the Depths of their that said the wiper who had been a drum and Way out Tell those Mobile radio Guys we want More half hours like this Elling nazis Industrial is prize red army goal Pup tent poets Saga of the tankers the air Force gets the and the infantry takes the but have you heard the when the tankers get around turn them the sergeant and tanks rumble Forward Hunting Over Mountain trails where Don keys Seldom tanks Are spearheading the through Snow and into the creeks and tanks past the famed gothic line the 75s tankers shout count your Herr Kesselring so drink a and take another there out battling in fury and so let the air Force get the the infantry take the but youve heard the tankers of what happens when come Marshall Nolan Sullivan shoe Shine not once in the months As a lowly i was i bothered by shoes that creak and cry but now As a measly second lieu tenant with shoes on my feet from Money i spent i wander Down Corrido sidewalk Yand Street with shoes which cry out pay us you y memory your leave is done i Marvel what is the so new so old which hides dark Clouds with Silver net and gilds the very Hills with Gold of were Ghiberti Gates ajar to compensate in some Small Way for All we for things to bar Hie Way of Normal life were we All wed to enter the food to the wine to to find the gift that shines so f the gift of True companionship we were for us the world stood for fleeting self was perhaps we missed the Heady thrill but greater far the peace re the key i have kept my key to the office though not in my some Day ill Surprise them i will not As time they change the i have kept the keys to my former state within and if it has of i will not be for i can change and find the doors open to vistas medics barter patrol men of passion carry Theodore Emmon if we could get to the that would be All the Young Navy gunner but you cant make Ife on an eight hour it would be All right if you could go up there and have a he asked How far up you had to go just to get a Good the Little puerto rican Oiler told him youre either up or youre not up if youre close enough for a youre in the but there is no place you can get just a Good he glanced at is that right i told him that probably How it that like with the naval1 gunner youre sailing along for maybe and youre in the rear lines of the and then All of a sudden therell be planes coming out of the and then its the he because Hes got the purple the puerto rican thumbing at the Young gun Tell him about the purple heart they gave he said to the they should give the purple heart to the merchant the gunner with wrong Guy in Washington a sergeant took a poke at me the puerto rican i was in civilian clothes in a and these two Guys were talking about draft dodgers and looking at and then this ser Geant took a poke at they were stationed in Hernandez could have a purple heart if he was in the the gunner with the purple heart we Are full of Little Hernandez the joints jump ing with a Long line of purple he the old Dane got up from his with a gesture of they Call he they get into i port and the first night they sit around the mess talking heroes and play intr Acy Deuce like a lot of noncom maybe when the weather clears a Little we can Hitchhike up be Vond Pisa and see if there is any thin doing in that the gunner said to tomorrow it will be Hernandez outside in the rain the winches were clattering in machine in fashion under the and you could hear the italian stevedores shouting at one another As the cargo bes fun to move onto the line of bumper to on the Muddy William Hogan Frederick the ruler of Prussia and one of the forerunners of Germany once said of this is my he was speaking of the Southeastern province of Prussia and its Rich natural for Adolf Hitler and the nazi gang that shares his Silesia has become even More important than Frederick the great imagined it could in the past two and three the towns and cities of Silesia have become the focus of a vast concentration of Germany factories that were vulnerable to British and american bombing from great Britain were evacuated to the even before this evacuation be Silesia was second in importance Only to the Ruhr Valley As a source of German Industrial in upper Silesia there is an Abund Ance of Coal the silesian pits have next to the Ruhr and the largest amount of Coal for the Reichs heavy other important minerals Are mined in Silesia Pyrites and with the raw materials close at German industrialists turned Silesia into a huge manufacturing with the Advent of Hitler these factories became producers of and when the War be their Tempo was stepped up Silesia was one of the major sup ports for hitlers once second rate in the first years of the War Silesia Industry was distinctly secondary to the producing Misti of Western but when the Raf began its bomber raid of the factory cities in the West such As Dusseldorf Duisburg and Mann the nazis began to worry according to All the fac tories that could be moved mos easily were shifted into the in when the heavy of the american air Force joined in the plastering of Western Ger even Large plants were Dis mantled and shipped what would be a More Natura place to set up these factories than Silesia and the area around it Here they could have direct chess to the Mineral resources of As Well As the mines of Czechoslovakia and southwestern Here it would be difficult or the bombers to and the red army was still deep in the Interior of with a population o had been the eighth largest City in some govern nent War offices were set up in Breslau As a result of the bombing of its population now swelled with the arrival of workers from Western and Central Ger Many and with slave Laborim ported from conquered Poland and other cities and towns like Kreuz Serg and Ratibor mushroom eco German Industry had found a Safe Retreat near the Oder which is navigable Here and is a useful Means of hit from Italy but americas heavy bombers set up shop on the italian and the Reichs Southeastern nost province became vulnerable to air and the worst was yet to the worst is now at in an offensive that began mar Shal Ivan Konies 1st ukrainian army advanced More than 110 Miles across Southern Poland in six with the fall of Czestow the path was Clear to Konies right flank for invasion of Silesia and an assault on the Industrial centers of the with Breslau As the big Konies left after dealing with Cracow and two big polish Industrial centers that the nazis had employed to their War could head for Breslau from another the fall of Silesia will grave consequences for nazi Ger the was said to produce 30 percent of Germany heavy Industrial Hya writing in red red army we Are approaching and it is needless to ask what Germany would be without Silesia a Canni bal without a bile Howard Taubman they say Woodrow on june 1917 no people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to no Terri tory Mast change hands except for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair Chance of life and no indemnities must be insisted on except those that constitute payment for Manifest wrongs no re adjustments of Power must be made except such As will tend to secure the future peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its Samuel columnist if America had been occupied by a foreign and if a num Ber of americans had formed an underground band to fight the and had lived to Gether in eaves and cellars Dur ing that fight it seems to me that these americans might Well be tempted to form a permanent organization we form permanent organizations for much less i dont think you could keep an american resistance movement from making a kind of Lodge or society out of and having and wearing and pass ing from a letter of a Youngr Brit ish now to his three Earold son never make courage and loyalty an excuse for Wake peace an Opportunity for courage and Ralph in the Atlanta Constitution if you think this War is and god knows it then just sit Down and figure what the Job would have been had the germans taken England and the japs had captured