FORCED LABOUR
POLES IN GERMANY
BERLIN, January 19,
It is officially announced that 310,000 Polish prisoners of war are working on German farms and in industry. In addition, 200,000 Polish civilians are going to Germany for similar work. Prisoners are engaged in coal-mining, road-making, and street cleaning, and are carefully segregated from the German workers, some of whom have been punished for drinking beer and conversing too often with Poles. A quarter of a million of the prisoners have no overcoats, and scores of thousands have no underclothes or no boots.
Hosts of other Poles have been conscripted for reconstruction work in German -occupied Poland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 11
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105FORCED LABOUR Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 11
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