The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-05-31

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BY HAZEL eRANNoN
The following is taken from a let
ter written by an American officer
Of the famous 4th Armored Division
under Gen. Patton:
Have been in Czechslovaki for
some time and it's quite q treat af-
ter being In Germany for so long.
It's nice just to see friendly faces
for a change, although many Of the
Germans would have been friendly
II we had permitted It. You can't
afford to differentiate between them.
II you had see the things we've
seen, you'd soon realize that there
just aren't any good Germans.
Mother sent me several clippings
about the concentration camps.
saw two which we over-ran and
they are beyond description. At
Orhdruf there were thirty or forty
emaciated bodies lying in the yard
where the IS guards had shot them
just before we arrived. Other bodies
were stacked and covered with lime.
Buchenwald was v e worse for
there we found thousands Of walk
Ing dead. The Germans had orders
TO kin them all, but we were . little
too fast for them. There e even
several thousand children who had
aged 20 that they looked like old
men and women. I saw the crema-
tories and what was even worse, the
hooks on the wall from which they
hanged them. They simply put .
rope around their neckS and hung
them up on . hook, letting them
slowly, straugla. There was . heavy
club to > on those who struggled.
No, don't let anyone ever tell you
that such stuff II propaganda. And
the women are just as bad az the
men. The Germans used to march
American PW's all over Europe just
to show the people that they were
the masters. The German women
would spit on them and beat them
with sticks az they passed"
Editors Note: Pictures of the hor-
rors described above by the young
American officer are shown in the
current issue Of Vogue. There Is no
excuse for the American public to
grow soft toward Germany. News
reels, magazine articles, everything
confirm the horrors first described
by American newspapermen on the
invasion scene. They should be q
part Of the education Of many sue
ceeding American generations so
that never again will America stand
idly by and let Germany try for
domination Of the world.
Many American soldiers are dis
gusted with the French and their at
titude now that they (the French)
have been delivered. This attitude
Il shown in the following taken from
q letter written by an American
medical officer, who for some time
has been running a hospital train in
France, evacuating wounded men
from the battlefields to hospital
areas In the rear:
I'VE have been on the 60 most Of
the time since We Day, so I haven't
had much time to write -.
We have been hauling RAMPS
Recalled Allied Military PERSONNEL
70 q staging area On the coast. About
fifteen of the trains were assigned
to this. They picked US out as we
are q better type train and the 9TH
ers are more comfortable on the
patients. Ours are much better for
going to the front for patients
though, as we can land in a hurry
and get out. There aren't many pa
tients to haul now anyway.
We are going into the shops today
or tomorrow for some repairs on the
train. The French have jerked us
around so much that they have al
most torn the train apart. ! think
they do a lot Of it on purpose. l can't
stand any of them. Most of them are
frank about admitting that they
never wanted the Americans here
that they were happy with the Ger
mans and would rather have them
back. Others say it makes no differ
ence to them-they would just as
soon have us as the Germans. The
French have no intelligence and no
initiative. AL they want is some
body to take care of them. They are
about as lazy as any people / have
e seen. They take more holidays
than the British. They have been
celebrating the end Of the war in
Paris for a week when the war was
really over for them when Paris was
liberated.
II don't know what Is going to
happen to US now-when we finish
hauling the RAMPS. There Is some
talk of making all the trains into one
hospital unit (field or evacuation, l
guess), but don't know if that is true
or not. / wish we could at least come
by home on the way to the Pacific.
Mississippi is making a splendid
record in the sale of "E" bonds in
the current 7th War Loan drive. we
are leading the nation. Montana is
second and Alabama is third, accord
inc ~ f,o,,roc today