Germans Treat Russian Women As Cattle
LONDON, December 16.
The Germans are conscripting a large number of Russian women as servants for German hotels, restaurants and private houses, says the “Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent A board of the Gestapo and a member of Nazi women’s organisations choose Russian women on the grounds of health and appearance. Jewesses or those with Jewish appearance are rejected. The selected Russians are treated like cattle. They are transported to Germany, labelled and sent by freight to their employers who inform the Security Police in case of the slightest offence. Russian women sometimes are employed in the building industry, but this is not officially approved. Germany at present is employing 500,000 foreign Kvomen, mostly Poles and Russians in war industries.
The Ministry for Economic Warfare states that Germany is drafting women into the army and air force as auxiliary signallers to help meet increasing manpower shortage.
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Northern Advocate, 18 December 1942, Page 1
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