European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank Hie army weekly 1945 ask his background is i russian i i stay fight that his explanation for wearing the american Eto ribbon beneath the red Star on his somebody gave Joe the Eto ribbon after he had fought All the Way from Cherbourg to Germany with the 3d armoured Joe was in the red army in when he was wounded and captured by the after 2vz years in a pm he was sent to Cherbourg in february 1944 to build Pillbox he had been captured during the fighting around Villedieu and joined the armoured among his other Joe is an accomplished guitarist and he stages Impromptu recitals for the Benefit of All visitors to the his while including a few old russian consists largely of soviet songs like horses of steel and the partisans Konstantin russian guard sergeant who was christened i Joe by the Camps american is a great hand with a Here he leads a song but two other polish boys and i found out where the lines were on August and we slipped through and joined the 83d on August the americans asked me to broadcast to the Garrison in polish and German to Tell them to surrender by 3 or american planes would wipe them White flags appeared at two Pill boxes after i but other germans would not let the ones who wished to surrender come at 3 the american planes came Over and von Aulock after i fought with the 83d division for five to Huertgen so now i am on my Way Back to where i will join the polish army and fight the germans the russian Liaison was captured at Smolensk in to was sent to Belgium to work in Coal mines and later to Aachen As a farm there he was closely guarded until the americans pushed into Ger Many in september All foreign labourers were ordered to move Back into the Reich by the the frantic but Bugachic evaded them and remained in hiding until the yanks took now the russian lieutenant serves on the dec handling other refugees from his he wears the Complete american uni his Only russian identification being the red shoulder Patch on his Field jacket and the red Star on his the dutch who must remain Anonymous because he has relatives in occupied translated one interview for me which evidently pleased him very it was with a fellow Hollander like had been a member of the dutch a character right off an old fashioned Windmill he was a Blu eyed the nazis arrested him several times on suspicion of sabotage but could not prove him Teddy he had set fire to their automobile Plant and sunk their barges in the finally he was arrested on charges of be ing an enemy of the Ger Man people because he had political thoughts against the that is what you americans i trumped up but they sentenced him to four years in jail on he was sent to work in to help repair buildings which had been damaged by Allied air when Allied pianos attacked the German guards took revenge on their prisoners by beating them and cutting Down on their the prisoners were treated very badly and forced to work 16 hours every for that they were supposed to be paid one Mark and 20 pfennig which is about 38 the germans said they would hold the Money until the prisoners were this Man never collected his after 18 he escaped and hid until the american troops liberated the town whore he was he was sent to the and Ball liked him and asked him to stay on As a labor Foreman of the there arc two other dutch boys on the staff Teddy one is the assistant to the dutch Liaison and the other is a med ical student who works in the those other two came like me and joined the american 30th division when it liberated our Section of then we joined the dec staff As the next est place we could help the Allied the pcs 1 resident and unofficial Good will ambassador is Konstantin a ser Geant the russian rechristened i Joe by the american he is a laugh in eyed estonian whose Stock answer when you while her belgian Mother looks Elfreda 2 years has her weight checked by Jane a member of the dec medical the one that gets the biggest applause from his american audiences is his version of a hillbilly favorite taught him by some North Carolina gis in the 3d armoured its the red River and the lyrics Are Sung in estonian with a twang that would get Joe a spot on the National barn dance any saturday t a Khz was one incongruous feature that stood out above All others in this International House of Newborn it stood out above the slowly comprehending eyes of the bearded polish peas ants to whom despair has become an accepted above the grim determination of the russian soldiers who wanted to get Back to kill ing above the laughing faces of Checho slovakian children raised in slavery who were experiencing humane treatment for the first time in their it was the ironic twist that these poles and russians and having escaped German Are still speaking German it As their Only Mutual i spoke to the dutch about this pointing out that most of our interviews had been conducted in German and regretting that such a Mark of nazi occupation had been imprinted on no liberated he it is True they could make us learn and speak but they could not make us All think that is Why they Page 17