- Published by the German Embassy in Finland 26th of October 1942. German Embassy, Vuorimiehenkatu 7, 4th floor, Helsinki. Phone number: 61 781.
WHO’S
TWISTING THE FACTS?
- Berlin, 26th of October. Those shameful
events that have happened in the Canadian POW camps, where the prisoners were
chained by force, which included rubber sticks, water, tear gas and finally
firing fusillade from rifles, have recently gained an epilogue, which shows the
bad conscience of the Canadian officials in it’s whole form. The information
that has been sent from the Reuter office in Washington, indicates that the
Canadian government has protested against a US magazine that published an
article about these events. The
Canadian embassy is claiming that the US magazine is “twisting the facts and
are giving propaganda material to the enemy”. Interesting enough, the Canadian
embassy isn’t denying the incidents itself, but are disapproving that these
events were made public. The story that the US magazine published, isn’t
exaggerated at all, when comparing the statement that the Canadian Defence
Minister Ralston gave, because this minister has given the same kind of account
of the incident to the Canadian parliament, that the magazine published. The
Reuter office has published this statement also to the fullest detail. So the
information that Reuter office in Ottawa has sent, cancels the news that the
Reuter office in Washington published, or then the Canadian Defence Minister
proves that the Canadian embassy in Washington is lying.
- The information that the US Foreign Affair
Undersecretary Of State Hull, refuses to tell his opinion about the
protest from the Canadians, is also very interesting. The fact that he’s
keeping his mouth shut, can lead to the assumption that the White House isn’t
thinking that this issue is very important. In other words, they don’t know what to
say about the abuse that the Canadians are practising and they cannot think what
to say about the fact that this information is now public.
- Also the president Roosevelt has gotten
himself in the middle of this conversation about the treatment of POW’s. He
has the nerve to claim, that USA is strictly following the Geneva convention,
which by the way, he says to be only a theoretical base. At the same time he’s
claiming, that the tying of the German POW’s during the Dieppe invasion that the
English tried, wasn’t in any conflict against the Geneva convention. Because
it was only a security measure during the POW transportation. This kind of
statement proves, that Roosevelt doesn’t know at all what the Geneva
convention keeps inside. Because first of all, the Geneva convention doesn’t
separate the POW’s held in a prison camp and POW’s that are transported and
secondly, it says that the POW’s must be treated humanely. The Geneva
convention that was renewed in 1929, says unambiguously, that the POW’s must
be protected against from any abuse, violence and exploitation and that they
have the right to demand that their person shall be held in honour and in
respect and that all of their personal papers and medals shall be in their
possession and that they cannot be forced to give information about the force
movements etc. So if the Americans and English are this way trying to adapt the
tight security prisons, like it’s known from the American gangster hunts, to
the POW’s, they are without a doubt and most clearly violating against the
Geneva convention, against the specific phrase and against it’s spirit.
- These incidents are no accidents and do
not present some private acts from the English chiefs, this is clearly proven in
the huge document material that was lately published in the German press. This
material is based on the articles and pictures that the American “Liberty”
and “Sea” magazines have published. One cannot also forget, that the USA
committed itself into crimes even before it entered into the war, by treating
the German sea officers that had escaped from Canada in a manner that the
international justice in it’s history do not know.
- No words are needed, when speaking about the justification of the German retaliation. It’s as justified as the recent warning from the Japanese government, to punish severely those American and English pilots, that are found guilty of committing horrifying violence against the civilian population.
