Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               He 4 Quot a the stars and stripes saturday May 26, 1945 a a a a a a a in a country without a Man a. By Peter li8ag0r a stars and stripes staff writer j Flensburg Germany May 25�?Germany today is the first na-,3bm in Modem times without a Central authority civil or military of a Iown. %1  5, a a its notorious general stall which dated Back to Frederick the great also is defunct following mass arrests wednesday of grand adm. Karl Doenitz a Quot phony govern-4-�?-�?~ a it  a today a completely in of the Rule the country until the ., Russia Britain and h a take Over respective occur Sion zones. Yer. Ten dal of Heloine the Jodi firing of Adolf Hitler s successor i a the sheaf Mission investigated Doenitz a government and the oks Oberkom mandant wehrmacht. It if Quad both impotent Shams with Horii real authority or recognition. The Mission discovered oks was it into oks North and oks the with Headquarters at flens Furg and Berchtesgaden. North was red by Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel. Sheaf replaced Keitel with a col Gen. Gustalf Jodi who signed the German surrender. Keitel by As placed in confinement. A sheaf offi Cial said Doenitz a game was an Effort to Salvage the German High command strip of  Doenitz re was tolerated Only so Long As stated disarmament of the army. Delegation reached May 18. It was agreed to b Doenitz a Quot government Quot Poeltz Jodi and their aides Are summoned to the liner Patria a in Flensburg Harbor at 9 45 b they had no know of what was to happen. A six minute wait the Allied arrived it included maj. Gen. A a. Rooks Deputy assistant a staff g3 Brig. E. J. Foorda i Deputy chief of staff 02 Foen. Nikolai Trusov from Gregory Zhukov a staff a Maun of Tia Royal 1navy�b simply and directly Rooks told i pie germans their government had been dissolved they were told they were under arrest and henceforth would be guarded by armed Allied adj Wypp the meeting was Over in four my Utah a get out with 4 Bucks men of the defunct German army have started on the Road Back to rebuilt As civilians the agriculture mines and twisted railroads of the Reich under supervision of Allied military government. -y--4 to. The transition from pm to civilian status began with the release of 460 men most of them Farmers a to their Homes in Rhine province administered by it Gen. Leonard t. Gerow s 15th army. Hie Stream of sex soldiers resuming to Rhine province is expected to swell to 3.000 daily. Dissolution of the German army began 24 hours after extinction of its High command at Flensburg. The former soldiers had been held in ad6ec cages. They were paid off at the rate of 00 reichsmark eight dollars for officers and half that for pm. Avsec provides transportation As far As an sex soldiers Home province then he becomes the charge of the local Burgmeister who is administering the Community under control of \ the am authorities a i m s m a a a Atlantic Fleet units shifted Washington May 25 cans a air patrols in the Atlantic have been relaxed and some naval units formerly there were transferred to the Pacific even before be Day vice adm. . Bellinger said. The Atlantic Fleet commander said Navy planes accounted for 81 of the 126 a boats sunk by Ameri can forces in the Atlantic. During the Peak of the Battle against nazi subs More than 1,200 land and Carrier a amp sed planes and blimps were in operation he said. Aircraft anti submarine operations reached their highest Peak in August 1943, when 17 a boats were sunk from the air. Milburn Betts Given Germany Cun Trul posts Paris May 25�?army officers and civilians who will play key roles in the occupation of the american zone in Germany under  Group control were announced Here supplementing announcement of some major division directors last Eek. Chief of staff for the a pjs. Group control. Council under it. Gen Lucius Clay Gen. Eisenhower s Deputy military governor for Germany will be Brig. Gen. Bryan a Milburn. F. Fie was formerly a member of the plans and training Section of age he in Washington d.c., and commanded a defences of Seattle in 8haef is months intelligence director for the group is Brig Gen. Thomas j. Betts of Washington. He has been  Tell Glence officer under Eisenhower for 18 months As Deputy g2, sheaf. Lounsbury 8. Fish win serve As advisor to Clay on organizational plans. He is organization counsel for Standard Oil co. Of California. Brig. Gen. Robert a Mcclure sheaf psychological warfare chief win head the information control service which will control German press radio and a other forms of Public expression in the zone. Alton gets pro Post Public relations win be headed by Brig. Gen. Frank a Allenjr. Who has been chief of pro sheaf. Sinc september 1944. Brig. Gen Frank c. Meade will serve As Deputy for communications under maj. Gen Oliver p. Echols internal affairs and communications div. Director. Postal communications under Gen. Echols will be supervised by Peter j. Schardt former assistant postmaster general on leave As assist amp it vice president of the Southern railway system. I to Switzerland War releases brakes or likes Washington May 25 cans a the War production Board yesterday revoked its order restricting bicycle production us May loan Queens to  London May 25 up a the luxury liners Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary and Aquitania May be turned Over to the  For a six month period to help transport american soldiers from Eto it was Learned yesterday. They Are expected to sail with their first loads As soon As Britain declares the Atlantic free of a Boate. The Quot Queens can make three sailings every 30 Days and Are expected to handle 45,000 troops monthly while the Aquitania can accommodate an additional 8,000 monthly. Bern May 2d apr pastor Martin Niemoeller lutheran who was imprisoned for defying nazi efforts to make the Church a party instrument and was freed from a concentration Camp by u.8. Forces in Austria has been granted permission to Lenffer Switzerland with his family. Sabotage plot fails in Bremen by Earl Mazo stars and stripes staff writer Bremen May 25�?a nazi plot to sabotage Bremen Harbor installations. By removing vital parts from machines and crossing Power and communications wires flopped when a German gave Allied authorities a detailed report of the sabotage pm fun port officials said they were saved at least a months repair work when the unidentified German gave them a 23-Page report telling exactly which wires were crossed and what machine parts were stolen. By using German labor port officials Hope to have the port in operation by mid july. One official said Quot american privates will think they Are corporals giving instead of taking orders when the americans took Over Bremen they found 16 submarines being built from pre fabricated parts after the pattern established by Henry j. Kaiser. 200 b29s per month Washington May 25 apr super fortresses Are coming off  Assembly lines at the rate of 200 per month and More than 2,000 have been produced War production Board chairman j. A Krug said yesterday. Clug Dejews wiped out by nazi pogrom by Paul Green stars and stripes staff writer Cologne May 25 a hitlers boast that he would destroy All German jews almost came True in colognes jewish Community which traces its beginning to roman Days. Of the Community a prewar population of 18,000, less than 50 jews remain today. Others May trickle Back but those who Are Here fear that practically All the rest of the original Community died in nazi extermination cd a is. The handful that has returned has Freedom but Little else. Their businesses and Homes if not destroyed were taken Over by germans. Being germans nationals the jews Arentt eligible for Relief provided by the military government and Urra for non German refugees. Newsman is Leader Leader of this Shadow of a jewish Community is Friederich Jacoby 46-year-old Newspaperman. He was appointed by the military government As director of Klingel Plutz prison where thousands of jews and non jews were tortured by the nazis. Jacoby supervises incarceration of nazis is and Gestapo leaders including Many who persecuted jews. Remembering that one of his two sons was killed at Buchenwald that his father and Mother probably died in a concentration Camp near Prague that for seven years the nazis kept him on forced labor Jacoby sees no future for jews in Germany. Quot i can never again Trust the germans a he says thoughtfully. Quot the nazis have been propagandizing them too Long. Anti smelt Lam la in their  red entry into Jap War seen Washington May 25 Cap a Russia soon will enter the War against Japan rep. Mike Mansfield . Predicted today. Mansfield who recently went to the Obi for the late president Roosevelt added that unless China unified itself russian participation in the Pacific War might split China into two separate states one communistic the other under Chiang Kai Shek. I he said chinese disunity might Force the  To switch its strategy against Japan from Quot beachhead on the China coast to direct assault on the japanese Home islands  upon a time a doughboy had a dream about War by Andy Rooney stars and stripes staff writer Between White sheets in a hotel in Nice a Joe fell asleep and he dreamed a a a a he was assigned to a division made up of the Best from the first second third fourth ninth 82d airborne and a few More crack divisions they just took the Ekl timers. Terry Allen was division commander. A jeep tor four men the infantry division was reinforced with tank battalions selected from the second third and fourth armoured dive. They All had new tanks with three feet of Armor All around and a Quick traversing High velocity 155mm. Gun. Every Man in the division was Given a German Luger and a Schmiesser machine pistol in addition to his my. Each Man got a pair of Zeiss Lens binoculars and a Leica. There was a jeep for every four men and the jeeps were aimed with Handy twin Spandau machine guns taken from the tall of captured ju88s. The division artillery was equipped with German 88s, which artillery officers had been careful to see that the War department had not Quot improved and modified a and with our own 105s, 155s and 240s. Each platoon was supported by a Bat try of 4.2mm chemical mortars and of course had their own cub observation planes. The division fought Only on week Days and the men were paid in american dollars not Cigar coupons As formerly every Friday night whereupon their oos would turn them Loose on the nearest town on the boys Promise that they would report Back in time for the War first thing monday morning. Gel weekly liquor ration both pm and officers in the division were Given a weekly liquor ration and the pm ration had no tropical chocolate bars in it each Man got a Carton of cigarettes each week and if he did no to smoke them himself he could turn them Back to an officer whose Job it was to take them to the Best local Market and Well them. The Soldier was Given All but three percent of the return sales. The other three percent went into the division fund which m m m gave every Man 100 dollars when his turn came to go Home on a 30-Day furlough every six months. Each infantryman who received four or More Ajr mall letters each month got flying pay and the air Force Fellows were mad As the very Dickens about it because no matter How Many letters they got they  get the infantrymen s 16-Dollar combat pay. And Winter clothes in the Winter the men were issued German sheep lined Coats and every Man got one of the armoured Type combat jackets instead of the regular or irregular held jacket. Issue shoes were always Para troop boots. The divisions actions were closely and accurately followed in the stars and stripes and in the average Day most of the men in the division had their names mentioned at least once. The paper always reached them the same Day it was published. A a a the dreamer who had 110 Points toward a discharge awoke. Next Day he was shipped to a reinforcement depot and moved As an essential through the Mediterranean sea to the Chi where he lived unhappily Ever after