ESCAPE TO WEST BERLIN
NUMBER OF SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
(Rec. 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, June 20. Twenty-one schoolboys and four schoolgirls from a secondary school in Potsdam in the Soviet sector fled to West Berlin because their physical culture instructor tried to force them to join the Free German Youth Movement. One boy said: “He warned us that if we did not join the movement we would be conscripted for work in tlie Soviet-controlled uranium mines in Saxony.” Another said: “He calmly announced in class that all weak-kneed kids who did not honour Hitler’s memory deserved to hang.” Some of them escaped by train. Others cycled or walked. A West Berlin official said last night: “We don’t know what to do with them. They refuse to ,go home to their parents.” \
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 210, 21 June 1950, Page 5
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