GERMAN YOUTHS HELD
ALLEGATION AGAINST RUSSIA POLITICAL RE-EDUCATION LONDON, Aug. 7. A deputation of German mothers which arrived in Berlin declared that the Russians had stripped seven districts in the Bradenburg province of the Russian zone of all youths aged 13 to 17, and had taken them to concentration camps, reports the Daily Mail’s Hamburg correspondent. Two hundred and three children had been kidnapped from Kalau. Russian soldiers and members of the Socialist Unity Party in the Russian zone allegedly swoop on youths as they play in the streets and carry them off in lorries. The mothers appealed to the International Red Cross to help them to find their vanished children. Tney said Russian secret police officers told them that the youths were put into camps for “ special training and poatcal reeducation."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26226, 9 August 1946, Page 6
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