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t B TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE wsdnssdaT. Wot. 8. 1914 NAZI PRISONERS HITLER REGIE Tacoma, Wash. (U.F9 A dra matic picture of the psychologi cal upheaval that batters men whose entire world suddenly clatters down about their ears Is outlined In a letter by an American sergeant In Normandy whose duty is to interview Qer man prisoners. Sgt. Samson Knoll, Austrian born soldier serving in the U. S. army Intelligence division, re Veals some of his observations In a letter to Dr. Warren E. Tomllnson, professor of history and political science at the Col lege of Puget Sound In Taooma Knoll has spent great part of . Gam pi MillionsSayman .with V A Ma, 4 aindd Whiskey, a proof, '4S1V grain neutral spirits ' ? OOOOERHAM WORTS LTD,!' ;:ii :. , Poor),, Illinois .; his life In Germany, and fled the country to escape the Hitler re gime. Ha depicts the utter bewilder ment and frustration of both of ficers and men who suddenly realize that they have been be trayed by their leaders. "Never before have I seen thousands and thousands of peo ple so completely broken in spirit people so disgusted with the way they have been left holding the bag," Sgt Knoll writes. In an Informal talk with a 26-year-old veteran of the war on the eastern front, Knoll learned something of the hopelessness felt by nazl prisoners in Nor mandy. This German, a former Hamburg garage mechanic, told Knoll: "Russia was awful, but this is worse." "He did not mean the violence of the fighting nor the condi tions under which they lived," Knoll pointed out, "but this awful mess Into which they had been led, this betrayal and the terrible way in which they had been forsaken." Doctor Defends Nails At another time, the sergeant talked with a 31-year-old Sude ten German doctor of the medi cal corps who had formerly been a Social Democrat and private chauffeur of Prince Lobkowitz. Although not of the' nazl party and admittedly not anti-Semitic, was arrogantly philosophical and defended Hitler's iron-fisted methods as "birth pangs of something new something that must Inevitably accompany a social revolution." Yet he was at a total loss when Knoll ask ed how he a doctor pledged to save lives could defend the nazls' wanton slaughter of thousands. A lieutenant, suspicious at first, finally warmed up under Knoll's friendly, casual half questions. He confessed that in private he painted and drew as he wished notwithstanding the dictates of the state. He had been an artist In Berlin. He admitted that national so cialism is wrong and must ulti mately give way to freedom. When the conversation came to close, the lieutenant said simo- ly: "This has been the most rteas- ant hour I have spent In years, laiKing rreeiy about art." Whistling In Dark On another occasion. Knoll wandered out Into the rain after a long session of questioning prisoners. Later, he ducked Into a prisoners' tent and huddled Inside with a dozen Germans who were also seeking shelter irom we downpour, For an hour, he sat talking with them, en couraging them to talk among tnemseives and listening atten tively. Some were arrogant, youne. defiant," he relates. "Others were older and more reserved. Yet whatever they talked about, however defiant they wanted to appear, they gave you the feel ing that they were whistling In the dark." Knoll tells of conversing with 23-year-old master sergeant who was a veteran of many cam paigns and had served on the Russian front. Witty, intelligent and a student, the Gormnn nt first cautiously parried Knoll's questions, but suddenly became confidential. "I talked with him for more than four hours," Knoll writes, "and with a voice trembling with emotion, he bared the great fenr of what was to come an Ideal ist who had taken the patriotic ideals at their best, who had clung to them, and now that they were smashed faced noth lngnoss." Chains, time rui Simlaf Too Late to Claiwlft t SO tuturdM ttlrrntiou Pletta remember Yank's Occupy TacroErin, Leyte Capital City 1 . . ; " v '.- x. I Acme Icleyhulo) While the new Philippine Oovernment is busy In the capital building (background) in lucooau, Is Uuiu, o., a, Aiuiy ttttuniiuem auu uue4 tiuuxie 1uimu u l.oiit uues lu mu ui oxie.mamuiiB iwai uyp la- tfjf- '-?i 4v y? j kJ 1 1 my : 1 1 , " n HtC j3 . v j r .'i! v 1W&.iukt.iai ii.t.... -wii".rr firm ah offices 'to be opened sometime this week. HELEN DOUGLAS il Hollywood, Nov. 8 (U.B Democratic glamour girl Helen Gahagan Douglas took a grow ing lead in incomplete, returns in the 14th district today over Wil liam D. 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