The Archive · 1941

Opposition to Nazi Rule Increased

Moscow, Sept, 1.

How greatly opposition to Nazi rule in the occupied countries has increased was stressed by M. Lozovsky. Soviet spokesman, in a statement to foreign correspondents yesterday.

This opposition, he said. was finding expression in partisan warfare, acts of sabotage and attacks on German agents, an officers and soldiers, M. Lozovsky declared that ten weeks ago for shots o be fired at Laval would have been impossible. Similarly, strikes in Poland had previously been impossible. but now there had been one at the important Polish railway junction of Rzhnov.

Ten weeks of heroic resistance by the Red Army against nine-tenths of the entire German armed forces. and the enormous losses inflicted on Germany, had raised the spirits of the down-trodden occupied countries,—Reuter,

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