TREATMENT BY ALLIES
TRUMAN ORDERS IMPROVEMENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
WASHINGTON, September 30,
The Associated Press has been told that many Jewish refugees in Germany and Austria are treated as "the Nazis treated them, except we don't exterminate them," and that President Truman has ordered General Eisenhower to clean up these conditions as soon as possible. The White House released a long report describing how displaced persons, particularly Jews, were living under guard in crowded, insanitary camps.
In a letter to General Eisenhower Mr. Truman enclosed a copy of a report by Mr. Earl Harrison, of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, enumerating conditions ■ which, Mr. I Truman said, do not conform to the policies promulgated by SHAEF andj at present administered by the com-J bined displaced persons' executive. He said that "these policies are not being carried out by some of your subordinate officers. For example, the military government's officers have been directed to requisition billeting facilities from the German population for displaced persons. Yet this has not been done on any wide scale. "Instead, it is apparently assumed that all displaced persons must remain in camps, some of which were the very ones in which these people were herded,' starved, and tortured, and made to witness the deaths of fellowinmates, friends, and relatives." REACTION OF GERMANS. Mr. Truman, noting that Jews were kept in the concentration camps, quoted this statement in the report: "One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy." The Harrison report pointed out that refugees lacked clothing, whereas the Germans were the best-dressed population in Europe. Refugees were fed on bread and coffee. There were many pathetic cases of malnutrition, whereas many Germans enjoyed a more varied and more palatable diet. . The Jews, with few exceptions, were
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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