“FREE GERMANY”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22314, 26 April 1947, Page 5

“FREE GERMANY”

RUSSIAN CAMP PRISONERS TRAINED •‘SOVIET BOND FAVOURED”' LONDON, April 23. British intelligence reports received from Berlin states 'that thousands of German war prisoners are being organised in a ‘‘free Germany” camp near Moscow and trained to take a position in a future German administration, says the British United Press correspondent in Berlin One report estimated the number of prisoners already. trained at nearly 100,000 The Daily Mail’s correspondent in Berlin says the German Stalingrad commanders Field Marshal von Paulus and General von Seidlitz, are head of the German war prisoners who are being trained in the “free Germany” camp. He adds that all German officers being trained are said to be firm believers m a Soviet-German military bond which will eventually put a strong Germany “on the map.”