MANY GERMANS MISSING
Soviet Concentration Camps “INHUMANITY” BUREAU'S STATISTICS (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 13. The Russians have thrown about 250,000 Germans into concentration camps since the end of the war, and more than 100,000 of these have died according to"statistics issued by the “fighting . group against inhumanity,” which maintains the bureau to trace persons missing in the Soviet zone of Germany, and to aid persons who escape from Soviet confinement. The group i© headed by Dr. Rainer Hilderbrandt, a former prisoner of tbe Gestapo. The American authorities have announced that during January about 1500 Russian zone Germans arrived in Western Berlin claiming that they were refugees from Communist terror. An American welfare official said that a majority of the refugees were proven cases -of political persecution or forced labour. The ‘inhumanity” bureau said the Russians and the’<German Communist allies had operated 1G concentration camps in Eastern Germany. These had now been reduced to two major camps Buchenwakl and Sachsenhausen. The closing of the other camps was facilitated by the deportation of 40,000 inmates to Russia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 106, 14 February 1949, Page 3
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