Black Hole Of Warsaw
LONDON, February 12. Two million Polish prisoners of war were taken from East Prussia to Warsaw in January and kept for 13 days in sealed trucks, 50 to 70 in each, says the Paris correspondent of “The Times, When the trucks were opened, 211 of the prisoners were dead and the remainder were so weak that they could absorb only liquids. One hundred and forty nine Poles in two convoys en route to German Poland from Russian Poland had their hands and feet frozen.
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Northern Advocate, 13 February 1940, Page 3
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