GERMANY: The Prisoners Speak

In Sweden's Göteborg harbor last week 4,323 British and 17 U.S. prisoners of war, wounded beyond military usefulness, boarded transports, tasted white bread, coughed over once familiar cigarets. They were a part of the first successful prisoner exchange with the Reich; the stories they brought out were the first such accounts from inside Germany. Some of the Stories:

> Gloom is spreading through Hitler's Germany, and defeatism is rising. Elderly guards, men in their 50s, let prisoners listen to BBC newscasts. When asked how the war was going, the guards replied: "We are...

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