“MISERABLE WRECKS 1
Germans Returning From ji Russia (Received October 25, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 24. Decrepit German prisoners discharged by the Russians told British questioners tiiat of 190,000 Germans captured at Stalingrad, only 6000 were alive. Some died in Russian work camps or in trains ou which 200 to 300 corpses were found when thev arrived at Frankfurt-on-Oder. Tlie British commandant, Captain J. G. Johnson, of the transit camp, where the bulk of the war prisoners from the east were received, said that he believed the reports were not- exaggerated. He added that one could well believe the death rate when one saw the miserable wrecks coming through at a rate of 2000 a day. The Russians were not releasing able-bodied men. Those released were all sick and incapable of further work-. Released women from the Wehrmacht auxiliaries were either pregnant or suffering from venereal disease.
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Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 27, 26 October 1945, Page 7
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