CZECH REFUGEE SLOGANS. — These pictures, made on March 12 at Moschendorf railroad siding, show slogans chalked by Czech refugees (recently escaped across the Czech border into Germany) on the carriages of a special train conveying them to a refugee camp near Nurnberg. At top right and left the, Czech Communist Prime Minister, Mr Klement Gottwald, is pictured hanging from the gallows, while at bottom right is the caricature of a Czech State policeman with the inscription “and still we escaped” alongside the slogan “totalitarianism will be beaten.” The former secretary of the Social Democratic Party in a small town near Karlsbad is pictured with his family at bottom left.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1948, Page 5
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109CZECH REFUGEE SLOGANS.—These pictures, made on March 12 at Moschendorf railroad siding, show slogans chalked by Czech refugees (recently escaped across the Czech border into Germany) on the carriages of a special train conveying them to a refugee camp near Nurnberg. At top right and left the, Czech Communist Prime Minister, Mr Klement Gottwald, is pictured hanging from the gallows, while at bottom right is the caricature of a Czech State policeman with the inscription “and still we escaped” alongside the slogan “totalitarianism will be beaten.” The former secretary of the Social Democratic Party in a small town near Karlsbad is pictured with his family at bottom left. Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1948, Page 5
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