DEPORTATION TO RUSSIA
GERMANS AND BALLS IN SWEDEN (Rec. 11 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, January 23. The deportation to Russia under the greatest secrecy of 340 German and Baltic internees began to-day. A heavy police guard prevented a recurrence of suicide attempts. The handling jover of Baits to the Russians caused widespread controversy in Sweden after the Baits resisted in the original effort to transport tihem to Russia by hunger striking and mutilating themselves. Russia also claimed about 30,000 Bait civilian refugees but Sweden refused to send them back.
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Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 6
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87DEPORTATION TO RUSSIA Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 6
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