CRUEL TREATMENT OF RAILWAY WORKERS
NEW YORK, August 25.
The men forced to work on the French trans-Sahara railway “live like beasts,” according to Mr J. H. Westreich, a German-born refugee who worked for four months on the railway which links Dakar with North Africa. He added that the 5000 men who were forced to work on the railway were suffering from tropical diseases. They were alive with lice and fleas and had little water to drink. The workers comprised French Foreign Legionaires and thousands of Jew and Spanish republican .refugees.
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Southland Times, Issue 24524, 27 August 1941, Page 5
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