TREK FROM SOVIET POLAND
Germans’ Great Hardships
(Received January 21, S p.m.)
BERLIN, January 20.
A radio announcement stated that 55 died during a trek of 8000 Germans from Sovietized Poland. Terrible hardships were suffered during the compulsory exodus. . All Germans have left the area and 35,000 have reached Germany where they are waiting in camps before distribution throughout the country. A Nazi court at Posen (West Poland) sentenced three Polish men and live Polish women to death for the illtreatment of two German airmen after they had crashed. Four youths were sentenced to from 17 to 19 years’ imprisonment for the same offence. The Law Gazette publishes a decree signed by Field Marshal Goering issued on January 15 and effective immediately, confiscating the entire property of the Polish State. Insubordination .against the political reorganization” is punishable with death.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 100, 22 January 1940, Page 7
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