LIBERATED PRISONERS
THOUSANDS BEING FLOWN TO ENGLAND
LONDON, April 22. Thousands of British, Canadian, American, and other Allied prisoners of war, released by the advancing Allied troops, are being flown to England, writes a correspondent at FieldMarshal Montgomery's headquarters. During last week one air group flew home more than 10,000 liberated captives. They were evacuated mainly by Stirling bombers. The latest "arrangements provide air transport practically from the gates of the prison compounds. Fifty to 60 Stirlings are making the journey daily. Reuters correspondent with the British says that General Eisenhower and Field-Marshal Montgomery conferred yesterday in General Eisenhower's private plane a few miles from the front, and afterwards strolled through a group of British, Canadian, and American soldiers who had been liberated earlier in the week from a camp south of Hamburg. Their rations, they told General Eisenhower, consisted of potato soup and watery turnip brew. Many of the 9000 men in the camp died of starvation and others were beaten to death An American sergeant described brutal thrashings he received from a Gestapo captain. "Would you recognise him if you saw him again?" Genera] Eisenhower asked. "Yes, and I would like to kill him," he replied. "Just let us get him," said the general. "We will do the rest."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 5
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211LIBERATED PRISONERS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 5
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