VIST MOVEMENT OF SURRENDERED NAZIS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 5

VIST MOVEMENT OF SURRENDERED NAZIS

BRITISH FORCES' ZONE

March To Concentration Areas In N. Germany N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. noon. LONDON, May 20. This week-end has seen the beginning of the final vast movement of surrendered German forces within the British occupied zone, says the Times correspondent in Nprth-west Germany. About 2,000,000, stripped of all arms and war equipment, except for officers' personal weapons, are marching to concentration areas in North Germany, where they will await disbandment.

Most are going to Schleswig-Hol-stein isthmus, where about 1,000,000 will be confined on the west coast. S.S. troops and fanatical parachutists will be segregated in the rocky wind-swept island of Nordstrand, and 500,000 on the east side. More than 350,000 are bound for the peninsula between the estuaries of the Elbe and the Weser, while 120,000 from Holland, are bound for the peninsula between the estuaries of the Ems and the Weser.

Apart from those marching multitudes 500,000 men, lying wounded or sick in German hospitals, will follow their fit comrades when they are able.

The weapons and equipment which the capitulating troops have been dumping will be stacked under British supervision and will be mainly destroyed, though probably certain Allied countries . will first take what they want to make up deficiencies in equipment of their own armies.