APPALLING STATE
HAMBURG SLAVE CAMPS AMENITIES REQUISITIONED (Received May 18, 1 p m.) LONDON, May 17 The commander of the 53rd Welsh Division has ordered Hamburg’s 1,000,000 civilian inhabitants to provide 100,000 sets of clothing, 100 pianos, 100 radios, 2000 packs of playing card's, 10,000 books, 2000 indoor games, 100 fottballs and 1000 toys and dolls for the vast number of salve workers wlio lived in misery for years in the hutted slums around the city, says Reuter’s Hamburg correspondent. In addition the 53rd Division has started a six-language newspaper for the slaves. Non-essential German workers have. been ordered to scrub out 400 filthy camps .n which 100,000 slaves live. A strong orchestra from one of Hamburg« finest hotels has been ordered to tour the camps. The British officers found the camps in an appalling state, with no segration of the sexes, no proper sanitation, widespread starvation and general cruelty.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22612, 18 May 1945, Page 3
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150APPALLING STATE Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22612, 18 May 1945, Page 3
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