Many German Dead Buried In Paper Bags
BERLIN, Nov. 29 (Recd. 11.40 pm). —German bizonal economic authorities have placed beds and coffins on the priority furniture production list, states the Associated Press. At present every fourth German in the An-glo-American zone of Germany is without a bed. It has been reported to the economic authorities that coffins are so scarce that, many German dead are being buried in paper bags.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 November 1948, Page 5
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