REFUGEES IN GERMANY
CHURCHES DISCUSS RESETTLEMENT <Rre. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. The Hamburg correspondent of The Times” says that representatives of the World Council of Churches who have begun a three-day inquiry in Hamburg into the possibility of easing the German refugee problem were told yesterday by Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier, of the German EvangeJcal Churches’ Welfare Bureau, that 7,000.000 Germans had been driven or had fled into the three Western zones Jess than three years. The possibility of resettling the refugees as small farmers was extremely limited, he said. Emigration would provide a remedy, provided that wnole groups and suitable families included, but mass emigration F Om Europe, he thought, would not he possible for a decade.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25737, 24 February 1949, Page 5
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