GERMANS IN COMFORT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1945, Page 5

GERMANS IN COMFORT

Living On Food And Loot From Conquered Europe STRICT BED :ABMY BUL.E • Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON. March 16. The Red Army, with about 30,000 square miles of Germany under its control, has not found it necessary; to place its confidence in any German group or individuals, and Russian government is strictly on a military basis, says The Times; Moscow correspondent. A deep impression was made by the discovery that the average German is living in a comparatively high level of comfort as a result of the employment of foreign slave labour and the looting of Europe. German larders are found to be well stocked with food and: wine, much of which is foreign,, and most houses contain something from the! lands which the "Wehrmacht had temporarily conquered. The heavylabour is left almost exclusively to foreigners. •. . In Silesia it was low-grade Germans, besides Poles and Czechs, who worked the mines. It was their toil which brought Polish Silesia's coal production to 100,000,000 tons annually during-the war! ,:.;. Under the supervision of , the Polish Provisional Government many of these people are recovering their true nationality. The liberation of hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, who formed the foundation of German comfort, at one stroke reduced the Germans, to the level of labourers. As ; sucb; i&ey are wording: : hQt&e under the Red Army's vlgTian'S