FORCED LABOUR

Grey River Argus, 17 August 1944, Page 4

FORCED LABOUR

PROPOSED FOR GERMANS AFTER THE WAR (Rec. 5.5) LONDON, Aug. 16. Frederick Kuh, a London correspondent of the New York paper, “P.M.” says: More than 75 per cent, of the German prisoners at a prison camp in England declared themselves to be staunch Nazis when interviewed at the camp. These men represent a generation with which the Allies must cope after Germany’s defeat. Their mentality is a reminder of one of the most baffling problems peace will bring. Occupied European countries want a say in what is to, be done with German soldiers or civilians left within their borders after the armistice. Nine of the European exiled Governments have formulated a draft armistice. An outstanding recommendation is that, after the armistice bells ring, all enemy units should temporarily remain on the spot and be disarmed, and that each national Government should then decide whether to intern them or else use some of them to rebuild what the enfemy forces have destroyed. Enemy civilians, as well as the soldiers, could be used to restore devastated regions.