POLES WORKING IN GERMANY
Conscription For Farms and Industry United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received January 19, 10.40 p.m.) BERLIN, January 19. It is officially announced that 310,000 Polish prisoners of war are working on German farms and in industry. In addition 200,000 Polish civilians are going to Germany for similar work. The prisoners who are engaged in coal mining, road making and street cleaning are carefully segregated from German workers some of whom are punished for drinking beer and conversing too often with the Poles. Two hundred and fifty thousand prisoners have no overcoats, and scores of thousands no underclothes and no boots. Hosts of other Poles have been conscripted for reconstruction work in German occupied Poland.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21557, 20 January 1940, Page 5
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119POLES WORKING IN GERMANY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21557, 20 January 1940, Page 5
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