London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1945, London, Middlesex                                11 War week 1945 who know pm say there there As the usual assortment of broken cracked not Many and maps inform soldiers Tion May prove Are arrogant now they dont look and they dont look like there All beat pitiful and dont let their appear Ance fool they Are very third armoured division photos several wore nazi issued items of i equipment like the Jerry on the left none of which was marked made in the following Story from a frontline pow collecting Point in Belgium for War week by Franck a member of the information Section of the third armoured the writer was on the when newly taken nazi prisoners were marched through oar spoke to Many of seemingly peaceful but still just As As War week thanks Woliner for his timely con timely today As our troops match wits with the treacherous enemy on his own i by Franck Woliner third armoured division what 3s your regiment the line of Gray Green figures the bitter anguish of the these men left their native land to the Man to whom the question is put escape America offered f i ii t Poti t i in if xxx Ani t leans Forward he is an old Guy four Days of Reddish stubble his Gray his eyes arc Blue Send 48th both Sanctuary and today these soldiers of the states prove themselves worthy of the new Schroeder says sur he ans Nejib and adds 12th be drag the they re All if 1 r r Tii of Nof via 8th i have been Here three we went into an Assembly area at and we the 0id Guy goes on the american a handling division in listens nodding 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 but they Are very dangerous if you Are fool enough to Swallow the he Indi a Small one of the interrogation team scanned these articles care full Fop fill Lvcas of Lect items of All personal effects Are returned to the maps and other documents Are of primary importance from them May come information vital to our front line combat it is hard for a fighting Man to 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 Piave 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 getting Jerry Back quickly so that we can interrogate him while he is still dazed from and Low in the doughboy who see that a German prisoner keeps everything but his weapons until we can pro Perly interrogate and evaluate certainly he want trying to use the fatigues to confuse our he did Wear them under the Long and he wore a regulation Jerry Hel Hes scared and hell Tell us All about his he there was one we didst even we got that boy in a cellar with the rest of his they All wore Regula Tion but this Man had civvies pulled on Over the like All the he had a tall and pitiful he said that he had decided to come Over to the Ameri cans and could Only do so in the Dis Guise of a yet he was taken with a gift in his hands any prisoner caught in a uniform which is obviously intended to mis Lead our troops 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 care Ful in the handling of prisoners in civilian clothing or american give those jokers half a and mating notes in a Small Roseleaf rated a Man standing before my John Cavers and diaries is Doine Chance and  or slap a Eaaron silly inn of wac Ohl Tiai Anu Fiat ice using in nor Tho m hands maps methodically search the of in front of each German Soldier is a Little pile Nic Knacks from his there is the usual assortment of broken cracked and More than a 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 Little that one wears the Iron the Diagonal White and Black ribbon on his he tells us that it 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 live Jerries needed from the nazi Sullivan had taken himself a the information we gather is put to work when our combat teams hit the they Are Able to know where it will Hurt most nazi in ods the Man in i coveralls explains that the garment was issued to my and was worn Only under his Wehr Macht he had the coat on Der vol Sturm when he was Schroeder you can Tell How the one of the eve present a pair what can we do he is Battle gobs by the number of of cuticle several letters and probably telling the truth in this beat up Jerries who come stumbling in to this first Stop before shipment to barbed wire confinement for the they Are coming in swiftly in the escort ing Grin of these a truck Driver yells to the waiting Anterro wearing i Arthur of armoured division military police j orders the prisoners to line Imp they shuffle they dont look smart and they dont look like there just aug beat pitiful and har Nidess that the but Yoli dont know the definition As to these to key know the enemy Otto that not his real but for various reasons till Dpi is a crack 3rd armoured Divi Sion like each of the eight to enlisted men and two officers who Snake up the pow interrogation team Jujj Schroeder was born in Ger Manv and lived there for Many he vent to school in Cologne and his parents Are still Schroeder is an by Pierian citizen but he Knotul the nazis and he reads the lines of their pitiful ail of the divisions pow interrogators have this in common a Flam ing hatred of nazi they know ithe they know the torture of concentration Camps and 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 his Gray Green another wore an american officers there were a couple of of a pair of a pair of none of which was marked made in some of this stuff May actually have been Schroeder by Michael Wright they captured much of if 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 clothing is very you can see for the prisoners wore anything but some word padded others the splotchy camouflage Cape of a there were a variety Caps and although the majority of these men were remnants of the 12th they wore uniforms of wehrmacht and the Navy and air Force men Are really Schroeder they have been Given Hasty training and sent into the we had a ser Gean Pilot of fighter planes Here this he said he didst give a Damn How the War ended if he had to fight As an one non com had just returned from the he was willing to give the information we but he didst exactly know the Caliper of his Pak antitank 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 Dis solve that Tough attitude very soldiers of the old wehrmacht dislike the Young is they have a joke in Germany the is children have steel in their but on the frontline it turns to Lead in their pants this very is the Young punks Are extremely treacherous and our combat troops have Learned to watch them they All talk not Many Are arrogant a few declare that Germany will but they say it without the lieutenant in this group tells me that it looks but that somehow Germany will win the they All Schroeder sometimes they talk so much have to Tell them to shut much of their Spiel is is by comparing the statements of a taken we can be certain of reasonable our reports often Aid frontline teams to properly evaluate the enemy even the officers Volunteer info to a they cry shame on some other someone has always left them holding the the is promised support which never and the double Cross is so deeply in nazi philosophy that every Soldier thinks that has been betrayed when things go it is the same state of mind wifi Csc accounts for the wearing of Ameris can uniforms by nazi White Flag and the burst of Ibex eternal offside trickery which is continued on Page in