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SOVIET INTERNMENT CAMPS THREE IN EAST GERMANY JN.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 11.55 a.m.) BERLIN, Jan. 16. The Chief of the Soviet Control Commission (General Vassily Chukov) to-day notified the East German authorities that the Soviet zone internment camps at Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Bautzen will be closed, according to the Soviet-licensed News Agency. They are the biggest camps in the Soviet ?one, and it is believed they hold between 30,000 and 36,000 prisoners. The News Agency quotes a letter from General Chukov .to the actingprime Minister of East Germany (Mi Ulbrich't), stating that 15,000 prisoners will be released immediately and 3500 turned over to the East German authorities for “investigation of criminal activities.” Some 10,500 will be held in East Gorman penal camps and another 649 will be retained by the Russians for “grave crimes againsl the Soviet Union.” Bautzen will be turned over to the East German Ministry for the Interior, but Bucbenwald and Sachenhausen will be retained by the Soviet occupation forces. During the last few days the West Berlin newspapers have called for the planned abolition of the internment camps “swindle.” The newspapers asserted that many thousands of inmates had been deported to Russia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 79, 17 January 1950, Page 4
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