SOVIET CAPTIVES
CONCENTRATION CAMPS LITTLE BETTER THAN NAZIS MANY POLITICAL VICTIMS (10 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. Reports reaching Berlin from apparently reliable sources indicate that concentration camps run by Russians in the Soviet zone of Germany are scarcely better than those of the Nazi regime, says the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent in Berlin. Some camps, such as Buchenwald, are located in the same hutments as the original Nazi camps. Buchenwald is estimated to contain about 15,000 prisoners of all types, including not only former storm troops, but landowners, former officials of the Social Democrat and Christian Democrat Parties and a large number of persons apparently arrested merely because they refused td co-operatc • with the Communists.
The camp is guarded by Russian troops, but the administration is carried out by German members of the Socialist Unity Party. The food consists of two daily meals of watery soup and one piece of bread. Reading and all forms of recreation are forbidden.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22356, 14 June 1947, Page 5
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