SLAVERY CONDITIONS
NORWEGIAN WORKERS
(Rec. 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, Marc-.i 6. Two thousand Danish and Norwegian workers are employed in the construction of a German submarine base at Trondheim under conditions approaching slavery, reports the Norwegian telegraph agency. The Danes, under contract, work twelve hours a day for seven days a week. Contrary to the contract, the workers do not receive food, clothing, or footwear from Denmark, and are not allowed to return home after^ six months. Forty armed guards drive on the workers, a hundred of whom have been sent to concentration camps for desertion and insubordination.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 8
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97SLAVERY CONDITIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 8
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