European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes Joes who know pm say there there is the usual assortment of broken cradled let May prove not Many Are arrogant dont look and they dont look like there All beat pitiful and harmless dont let their appearance fool Are very third armoured division several wore nazi issued items of i equipment like the Jerry on the which was marked made in the following Story from a frontline pow collecting Point in Belgium was written for War week try Franck a member of the information Sec Tion of the armoured the writer Wason the spot when newly taken nazi prisoners were marched through our spoke to Many of singly peaceful but still just As dangerous As War week thanks Woolner for his timely contribution timely today As our troops match wits with the treacherous enemy on his own by Franck Woolner third armoured what is your regiment the line of Gray Green figures shift the Man to whom the ques Tion is put leans Forward apolo he is an old Guy with four Days of Reddish stubble on Bis Gray his eyes Are Blue and 48th Volk Grenadier he answers and adds 12th 8gi i have been Here Only three we went into an Assembly area at and the old Guy goes on the american handling division in listens nod Ding and making notes in a Small Loose Leaf maps methodically search the in front of each German Soldier is a Little bile of Nic Knacks from his there is the usual assortment or broken cracked Combs and More than a few of these krauts display Luckiest and one of the maps i know Why we have a cigarette shortage the scene is a frontline pow collecting in this cold Tutte belgian Village you can Tell now the Battle goes by the number of beat up Jerries who come stumbling in to this first Stop be fore shipment to barbed wire confinement for the they Are coming in swiftly and in the escorting maps Grin More of these a truck Driver yells to Ttoe waiting ones wearing g1 it Arthur of ill 3rd armoured division military police orders the in toners to line up they shuffle Forward they dont look and Tucey Tont took like there just All beat Olti Fui and armless that the but you dont know the definition As applied to these they know the enemy Otto not his real name for various reasons till is a 3rd armoured division like each of the eight enlisted men and two officers who make up the pm interrogation Schroeder was born in Germany and lived there for Many he went to school in and his parents Are still Sanro Eder is an american citizen but he knows the nazis and he reads Between the lines of their pitiful a of the divisions pow interrogators have this in flaming hatred of nazi they know the they know the torture of concentration Camps and the bitter anguish of the these men left their native land to escape America offered both Sanctuary and these soldiers of the United states prove them selves worthy of the new Schroeder says surveying the there All a Bunch of poor boys who have been forced to to hear them Tell not one has Ever fired a shot in they All wanted to they Are indeed Piti but they Are very dangerous if you Are fool enough to Swallow the he indicated a Man standing before my John of that one wears the Iron the Diagonal White and Black ribbon on his he tells us was awarded on the russian he has never fired a shot at the he is another of those harmless it would be a joke if it were not so from the Sullivan had taken one of the eve present a pair of cuticle several letters and a Small one of the interrogation team scanned these articles except for and other items of All personal effects Are returned to the maps and other documents Are of primary them May come information vital to our frontline combat is hard for a fight my Manto realize How much the taking of prisoners May guarantee his own Schroeder one pow is often Worth More than a dozen dead enemy soldiers on the when an infantryman knows that German troops have murdered his buddies in cold he is in no mood to bring Emback alive How we seem to have impressed our men with the importance of get Ting Jerry Back quickly so that we can interrogate him while he is still dazed from and Low in nazi in ods the doughboy who sees that a German prisoner keeps everything but his weapons until we can pro Perly interrogate and evaluate let official papers and diaries is doing himself a the in formation we gather is put to work when our com Bat teams hit the they Are Able to know where it will Hurt most the Man in i coveralls explains that the garment was Issue to him and was worn Only under his Wehr Macht he had the coat on when he was Schroe Der what can we do he is probably telling the truth in this certainly he want trying to use the fatigues to confuse out he did Wear them under the Long and he wore a Regula Tion Jerry helmet Hes scared and hell Tell us All about his or he there was one we didst even we got that boy in a cellar with the rest of they All wore regulation but this Man had civvies pulled on Over the out like All he had a tall and pitiful he said that he had decided to come Over to the americans and could Only do so in the disguise of a yet he was taken with a gun in his hands any prisoner caught in a uni form which is obviously intended to mislead our is carefully guarded so that he May not add to or take off any item of he is rushed Back to army intelligence and tried we have instructed our combat soldiers to be extremely careful in the hand Ling of prisoners in civilian clothing or american give those jokers half a Chance and  Dis or slap a Jerry overcoat on Over the i the prisoners stood passively As maps moved Down the line giving each a thorough several wore items of i equipment under their one had a pair of combat pants under Nis Gray Green another wore an american officers there were a couple of of a pair of a pair of of which were marked made in Ger manpower problem some of this stuff May actually have been Schroeder they captured much of it in the Rundstedt drive through if the equipment is worn on the outside in an Effort to the prisoner is sent directly to tried and probably their clothing is very you can see for the prisoners wore anything due some wore padded Jack others the splotchy Camou Flage Cape of a there were a variety of Caps Der vol Sturm by Mitchell Wright and although the majority of these men were remnants of tha 12th they wore of wehrmacht and the Navy and air Force Mea Are really Schroeder they have been Given Hasty training and sent into we had a sergeant Pilot of fighter planes Here this he said he didst give a Damn How the War ended if he had to fight As an in one noncom had just returned from the a was willing to give us the Intorf Luu Tion we but he didst exactly know the Caliper of his Pak Ana tank he want Hitler has reached so far into his manpower barrel that Hes coming up with splinters of the prisoners Are not All German that Little Punk with the Long hair is an is Panzer we Are really disappointed in the they have a reputation for guts in Ger but the frontline seems to dissolve that Tough soldiers of the old dislike the Young is they have a joke which goes Ger Many the is children have in their but on the front line it turns to Lead in their pants not Many Are arrogant a few declare that Germany will win but they say it without the lieutenant in this group me that it looks but that some How Germany will win the War they All Schroeder sometimes they talk so much that we have to Tell them to shut up much of their Spiel by comparing the state ments of a group taken Indi we can be certain a reasonable our reports often Aid frontline combat teams to properly evaluate the enemy they All talk even the officers to a to key shame on some other outfit some one has always left them holding the the is promised support which never and the double Cross is so deeply ingrained in nazi philosophy Tost every German Soldier thinks that has been betrayed when Laings go it is same state of mind which accounts for the wearing of american forms by nazi the White Flag and the burst of the eternal offside trickery which is As much a part of German tactics As bouncing bettys and the prisoners were Busy stowing personal articles Back into their one caught Schroe tiers do you asked in i might be sent to the a atom states Schroeder or they might Sendl Yott rebuild the jerrys Grin am a sick he Turnea to the line from the not1 Pital just three Days i always wanted to see will do As i am you see Schroeder Man is sick to death of and yet he As i am there Are Many of his kind Between role final our combat cant to Slacken the for a neither can a Chance to capitalize on info Tion from