DUTCHMEN DEPORTED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 33, 18 November 1943, Page 6

DUTCHMEN DEPORTED.

The “New York Times” reports from Washington that at the United Nations’ Conference held at Atlantic City, when the administration policy relating to relief and rehabilitation was discussed, one of the major problems submitted for solution was the repatriation of the people deported by the Nazis from their own countries. 11 The Advisory Committee on ForciblyExpatriated People estimates that as many as 40,000,000 war-scattered people will have-to he repatriated. One million of these are Dutch and the problem of the Dutch is typical of them all.

The Committee has accepted important repatriation recommendations from the Netherlands delegates, dealing, amongst other things, with the Dutchmen who have been deported. Among them are 350,000 Dutch labourers in Germany. In other occupied territories such as France and Belgium 50,000 are definitely known to be working. Dutch Jews numbering 180,000 have been displaced, with hut a few remaining in the Netherlands and these few constantly dodging the Germans. Some 30,000 Jews have been killed, are in hiding or in concentration camps in Holland. It is believed that 300,000 Dutch prisoners of war are held in Germany who, after having been released, were again imprisoned in May, June and July of this year. The number able to evade the German authorities is put down at 100,000. Two thousand Dutch students are known to have been deported from Holland to Berlin and 2000 to Austria.

Thousands of Dutch labourers have been.taken to Russia. All in all one million Dutchmen have been displaced, including thousands in prisons, concentration camps, refugees in Belgium and France and Dutch nurses in Germany.