Evening star., 1944-07-03
Nazis Announce Deah|
|0f ) More Generals
In White Russia
~ the AssoeiatAd Press.

tD VIlIIC Nu99Io
~ the Assoeiatsd Press.
LONDON, July 3.-Three more
German generals have met sudden
death In the battle for White Rus
STA, the Nan communique said to-
day, raising to 10 the number OF
generals killed or captured In less
than 4 month.
The calamitous mortality rate In
the enemy command dramatically
high lighted the hopeless German
manpower situation projected by the
outbreak Of three-front warfare in
the black June" for Germany, to
say nothing of fourth front in the
air and 4 NTH In occupied coun-.
tries where patriots have become
increasingly active.
BY ofncial Allied estimates, Ger
man casualties since the inception
Of the three.front offensive begin
ming with Italy have reached
around 3o4, 900 to date. The Rus
slams have announced the death or
capture OF $4,000. German casual
ties In Normandy have been esti-
mated at 5000 and those In Italy
were set at $1,000 to 100000 about
10 days ago.
The German communique told of
the deaths of Artillery Gems. Pfeiffer
and Martinek and of 1t. Gen.
Schenemann. Thus from June 6, no
less than II enemy generals have
been killed and 8 captured.
Other Generak Died.
Others on the German death list
were these:
Col. Gen. Friedrich Dollmann,
commander OF the German 7th
Army in France, an artillery spe-
cialist and defender Of the middle
of the Atlantic Wall. He possibly
was victim Of Raj rockets and
bombs.
Col. Gen. Eduard Dietl, COM
mander Of seven divisions in North
ern Finland. His death In an air
plane accident set the motif for
Hitler Grafton, his first utterance in
months.
Gen. Erich Marks. killed In Cher
bourg.
Its. Gen. Hellmich and Richter,
and Maj. Gems. Steegmann, Fallay
and witt. all killed in Normandy.
Prisoners taken included:
Gen. GollwitZer, commander of
the SD Army Corps, Russia.
1t. Gen. Carl Wilhelm Won
schlieben, Cherbourg garrison COM
mander.
Maj. Gen. Robert Stattler and
Rear Admiral Walter Hennecke.
Cherbourg.
Majs. Gen. Erdmannsdorff, Baeum-
Ter, Heine and Hamman, in Russia.
Moreover, the Allied command in
Rome said 1T appears that Col.
Gen. Won Mackensen has been re-
moved from the command Of the
18th Army lin Italy,, which Is not
unreasonable in view OF the heavy
defeat inflicted on him In which
his army was practically destroyed"
Gen. Schuenemann was 4 men,
Der Of = prominent publishing fam
lily which owned the Bremen
Nachrichten Weser zeitune.
On Russian Atrocity List.
Hamman the Russians spelled his
name Canaan because there Is no H
in the Russian language COM
manded the B0bruisk garrison and
was on the Russian atrocity list for
alleged excesses while commanding
1t Orel.
The loss OF general oficers is only
q part OF the German manpower
problem. complicated by fuel short
age. This is reflected In reports
reaching here OF examples such as
these:
For the first time the Germans
are using Czech policemen In Essen
and Dortmund to substitute for Ger
man police impressed into the army
The Germans were able to send to
Finland only parts Of one SO divi-
sion. chiefly impressed troops from
the Baltic States and Scandinavia,
plus several companies Of Todt de-
tense works laborers-in all about
10000 men. Austrian and German
troops were reported fishtine each
other openly in bleak, desolate
northern outposts.
Orders were said to have gone to
all German units on the French
front that are not actually In combat
to use horse or other animal-draw
vehicles 20 fuel may be saved. Rail
service to the front was said to have
been trimmed IS per cent due to
lubricant shortages.