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that were built. About 2,500 peo-
ple could live comfortably in that
underground series of tunnels.
There are individual rooms, there
is water, light and heat. There is
a restaurant and even small
shops. It is something like the
underground tunnel that runs be-
tween 6th and 7th avenues in
New York City, between the
I.R.T. and the Jersey trains. There
are hundreds of tunnels running
in every direction and it is sim-
'ply something that has to be seen
to be appreciated. When a Ger-
. man does something, he does it
thoroughly, no half measures.
From this underground city we
went to the "Transient Officers
Mess" and were given our last
meal in American Occupied Ter-
ritory. We had steak and it really
was good. Perhaps the fact that
it was our last in our own zone
made it taste better. It was
growing dark by then and it is
dangerous to travel these roads
by night, so we decided to stay
over. The room assigned to Fred
Baer and myself was warm and
the bed was comfortable.
In the morning we set out
again and were on our way to
Bad Oeynhausen, the headquar-
ters of the British Army on the
Rhine, and Field Marshal Mont-
gomery's headquarters. We again
'got to an Autobahn and from
there on the traveling was fast
and smooth. We arrived in Bad
Oeynhausen about one o'clock on
January 4.
Summer Resort
Bad Oeynhausen, like Wiesbad-
ent, is a summer resort. It has
,not been touched by the war.
The Kur-haus, the baths, the
small hotels, the large private
Mansions are all untouched. The
town is very similar to many re-
sort towns back hoMe. The Brit-
ish selected an area of the town,
put up a barbed wire fence and
told all the Germans within the
enclosure to get out. The only
'German civilians allowed m
town, that is, the enclosure, are
the ones who work as cooks,
maids or handy men.
The War Crimes Liaison De-
tachment in Bad Oeynhausen has
a large, 10-room house for its
own use. There are four officers
b and three enlisted men stationed
here. They are the only Americans
in this town. They have their
own mess, their own transporta-
tion and their own office. Lt. Col.
Haley Is the commanding officer,
Capt. Ivy, the executive officer,
Lt. 11%chmann, the intelligence
officer, Lt. Geralds, the graves
registration officer, and then there
is a GI interpreter and two GI
clerk typists. There is a German
civilian cook, a major domo who
prepares the names and super-
vises the house, there, are four
maids and a handy man, all as-
signed to take care of the Ameri-
cans and their needs. The house
is warm and very modern.
We had our first meal in the
British Occupied Zone and it was
simply delicious. The cooking was
real German and the food Amer-
ican issue (we get out food from
Bremen which is in the American
Enclave). We were assigned to
rooms and all slept very soundly
because the trip had been tiring.
Stays in Bad Oeynhausen
( In the morning I was told that
I would stay in Bad Oeynhausen
with the Liaison Detachment, and
the rest of the team would go on
to Lubeck. It seems the GI re-
porter assigned to the Detach-
ment had gone home. The rest of
the team left Bad Oeynhausen on
January 5 and I remained behind.
The upstairs rooms were all oc-
cupied so I was assigned to a
room in the center of town where
some British Colonels and Majors
were living. The room is large,
comfortable and warns. I have a
"batman" to take care of my
needs. A "batman" is a British
soldier assigned to a British of-
ficer to act as his orderly. Every
British officer has one. He makes
your beds, presses your clothes,
shines your shoes and does all
the tasks that a British officer is
not supposed to do himself. I feel
like a millionaire with my own
butler. I can't even light my own
cigarette.
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I spent the next day getting
unpacked and settled and did
nothing much more than look
around, go back to the mess for
some delicious food and to get ac-
quainted with the rest of the
Americans, who would be my fel-
low workers for the next few
weeks. They are a grand bunch
of fellows, real Americans, and
I'm sure that my stay here is
going to interesting And pleas-
ant.
It is going to be interesting
meeting ime of our British cous-
ins, getting used to their way of
doing things, learninf to drink
tea and training my ear to the
various dialects that sound so
strange to my ears now.
Amusing Incident
A very amusing incident hap-
pened to us on our way into Bad
Oeynhausen on the road from
Kassel. We stopped a a British
N.A.A.F.I., which is the British
equivalent of the Red Cross, for
a cup of warm tea -'- that is, so
we thought. We unscrambled our-
selves from our blankets and
walked in. We went over to a
counter with a very pretty girl
standing behind it in a British
uniform. We asked if we could
have sonic tea and were asked in
a very broad cockney accent,
Pave yu goot yer moog?" We
looked ,A each other and then at
the girl. She came back again
with '"ave yu goot yer moogs wid
ye?" Finally it dawned on me
that moog must mean cup and I
told her that we didn't. Well, we
didn't get any tea — no moog,
no tea. The British don't have
any extra cups around. Every
Tommy carries his own. So back
to the car we went without our
tea and thinking blankety blank
thoughts, to ourselves, of course.
Our first taste of British hospi-
tality was not of the best.
(The next article lists the per-
petrators of crimes in the Maut-
hausen concentration camp case
and the charges against them.)
Jewish National Fund.
Plans Victory Meeting
A Victory Meeting will be held
Thursday, Feb. 21, at 12:30 p.m
at the Rose Sittig Cohen Build',
by members of the Ladies Aux)
iary of the Jewish National Fund.
Reports on the recent donor ent
will be read at this luncheon
gathering. Zelda Rosenthal will
present a book review, while vo-
cal selections will be rendered by
Mrs. Jacob Sauls, accompanied
by I. Mendelsohn.
Hostesses for the afternoon will
be the Mesdames Potiker, Slom.
ovitz and Goodman.
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