HURRYING TO HOMES
FREED RUSSIAN SLAVES PATHETIC "PILGRIMAGE GO a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 0. The roads in East Prussia, Brandenburg and Pomerania are crowded with released Russian slaves, men, women and children, hurrying back to their homes, states the British United Press correspondent in Moscow. They hobble along on sticks, carrying on their backs or hauling on sledges their belongings. The men support collapsing women, and try to protect children from the icy winds. Most are barefooted. They refused to wait until the evacuation is properly organised. * Two thousand five hundred of these civilians whom the Germans drove into slavery were liberated in one East Prussian town. Among them were women between the ages of 50 and GO. One freed woman "told how the whole population of one village was taken to Germany, where ablebodied people wej'e forced to work and the remainder were killed. The Red Army, in bitter contrast, is coming across well-fed, healthy looking German civilians wearing a white band on their arms as a sign of submission.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21634, 10 February 1945, Page 3
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