Normandy veteran asks 8 Will Meyer train German By PHIL STEIN LONDON So killer Kurt Meyer—former commander of the 12th SS Hitler Youth Panzer Division—has been released from prison at Werl in Western Germany. He was originally sentenced to death at a war crimes trfal in 1945 for ordering the shooting of 18 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy. That sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment and later reduced to 14 years—despite pro- tests by Canadian veterans’ and other organizations. And now he Meyer still a Nazi Former SS general Kurt Meyer (above) is still a Nazi and his re- - tease may prove a threat to world Peace. This is the opinion of Bruce Macdonald, the man who prosecuted Meyer at his trial for ‘war crimes in 1945, as given in this book, The Trial of Kurt Mey- ser, just published in this country. Id is now city solicitor for Windsor, Ont. is out of his prison cell, feted and given an immediate appointment with a West German industrial company. ee: Ae I recall a morning in June 1944 in the shell-torn, mine-sown apple orchards of Normahdy. Our battalion was attacking the village of Cheux through lines of dug-in battle-~weary Canadians. ‘Holding the village were units of the 12th SS Panzer Division — some of them mere boys. ‘| lost. youth? took — two frightend shell-shock- ed German youngsters of 17. Then another six. Two more from Alsace, two from Poland, one from Danzig and one from Ger- many. The Danziger was a boy of 16. The Poles were 15 years old. The Alsatians were 17.- The German boy—from Dusseldorf—was a 14- year-old. -A number of the non-German nationalities in the Division had been enticed to join by the false glamor of the supposed-elite SS. A good many were pressed into service and told they would be shot if ‘taken prisoner, as the Allies showed no mercy to SS troops. Some believed it. They fought like trapped rats. But most were terrified little boys once the shock of battle hit them. Many of our lads died from a bullet in the stomach fired by young snipers hidden in the tree- tops. They wore green‘ camouflage smocks which made them difficult to spot. Some were strapped to the branches—by their NCOs, it was alleged. But they still drop- ped our Highlanders even though they were overrun. ; In that one morning—22 men of ‘our battalion lay dead. Wounded and missing totalled 184. A quarter of the entire officer strength was A farmhouse was converted into a casualty clearing station. While ambulances nosed in and nosed out again with their bleeding car- goes of men—the mortars of the SS Hitler Youth poured bombs in- to it until the place was a blazing inferno. * ~ * Organizer of the at-times fana- tical resistance of the Hitler Youth Division to the advance of the ‘Allied armies was, of course, Kurt Meyer. He saw that all the boys in the division took the oath to Himmler —head of the SS and the Gestapo. At 35, he was the youngest major-general in the Werhmacht. If he fails to make the grade as a businessman—who knows— perhaps he will be offered a job in the youth affairs department of the Adenauer governmert. Or training the boys of the new West Germany Army. It’s a fair bet that, like many of his contemporaries, he will or- ganize an old comrades’ organiza- tion of those who fought under I recall the first prisoners we him, Editor says he was asked to spy for U.S. SAN FRANCISCO John W. 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