Girls Free for Huns

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 115, 27 March 1942, Page 7

Girls Free for Huns

More than 300,000 Solvene men, women and children have now been transported from their homes in Yugoslavia in cattle trucks, without belongings, for forced labour in Germany, according to information which has just reached Dr. Miha Krey, head of the Slovenes in London. The only young people left behind in Slovenia are girls and women be-

! tween the ages of sixteen and twentyfour. The German occupying forces have branded all these women on the back of the hand with the words: “Freies Militarmadchen”“Girls Free for the Soldiers.” All churches and schools have now been closed, all food and cattle stolen without even paper receipts. Typical of German attitude to the Church is the case of the parish priest of Slovenjgradec near the fron- ' tier, who was made to sweep the main street on Sunday morning and gather !up the manure with his hands. He is i sixty-eight years old. Families have been split up and allowed to take only essential personal belongings on the long cattle-truck journey to the labour camps in Eastern Germany. . Except for a small area around Llubjlana held by the Italians, the Germans are in complete control of I Slovenia. When Hitler was at MariI bor he gave the army instructions to regard everything they found in. Slovenia as their own.