Germans threaten 10–1 ‘reprisal’ on U.S. captives
By the United Press
A German DNB Agency broadcast, reported to the United Press Saturday by the FCC, quoted a German High Command announcement that it had received reports that the Allies were shooting Nazi prisoners taken around Cherbourg and threatened a 10–1 reprisal on U.S. prisoners “if these reports should prove true.”
The German broadcast followed by a day the disclosure in Commons by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that the British government had full evidence showing the Germans murdered in cold blood 50 Allied war prisoners after they tried to escape from a prison camp near Breslau last March and that “exemplary justice” would be meted out to the guilty after the war.