The Press: Men of War

With Adolf Hitler's Army last week, slowly macerating the Allied forces isolated in Flanders, were three companies of the strangest newsgatherers ever seen on earth. They were Germany's official Pressekompanie: war correspondents trained to fight as soldiers, grim reporters who took part in the bloody battles which they covered for the German press.

Germany's PK forces last week numbered 200 men with some 400 technical assistants. Including reporters, cameramen, cartoonists, painters, radio analysts, they gave Germany the fullest war coverage that any army in the field has ever had.

Seven PK men...

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