RELEASED WAR PRISONERS

Evening Star, Issue 25471, 30 April 1945, Page 6

RELEASED WAR PRISONERS

MORE GAMPS OVERRUN BY ALLIES GERMAN CAPTIVES TO BE PUT TO WORK LONDON, April 21). Supreme Headquarters states that the following camps in Germany have been over-run and a number of British Commonwealth prisoners liberated:Stalag VB., at Villingen—(J!) recovered; Stalag 78, at Memmingen— 7'2'2 recovered ; Stalag 383, at Hoheufels—--1,970 recovered. \York detachments of Stalag 41) have been .liberated at Fderburn, Orberrohlinger, Ktzborf, and Teutscheiital. At these four places there have been recovered respectively 16, 32, 315. and IS2 'prisoners. No names have yet been received. The Germans carried off about 30,000 British and American prisoners to the Bavarian and Austrian Alps, according to a statement by a Swiss Minister (Dr Feklscher) before his departure for the redoubt, where he will look after Allied interests The Associated Press correspondent with the .Second Army reports that a Guards armoured division liberated more than 4,000 British and French naval and merchant seamen from a camp at Westertinke, six miles southwest of Zeven. Camp conditions were reported to be fair. Under a fourth of the 2,250,000 German prisoners on the western front have not yet been put to work, but the Allies are preparing a plan to keep the remainder occupied for years rebuilding Europe, says the Associated Press correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. Liberated countries " who have already requested hundreds of thousands of prisoners as labourers to reconstruct roads, till the fields, and mine coal, will soon want thousands more' for the gargantuan task of rebuilding towns. The Allies have taken so many German prisoners that they adopted the policy a few weeks ago of simply disarming members of the Volkssturm, kicking them out of ' camps, and telling them to go home. German civilians under Allied military government control will be allowed a diet one-third as generous as the. American soldiers get, and slightly over half the standard allowance for j liberated Europe. !