The impudent attempt to bleed the German nation of a further 3 in
compensation for a past governments alleged use of slave labour dry is best resisted by
exposure of the allies far greater complicity in the horrendous use of slave labour A
first German claim for compensation might be made against the Soviet Union: Long after the
war had ended Russia a slave population estimated to be at least 20,000,000 souls, with
the assistance of British and American governments were rounding up European citizens,
most but not exclusively German in the allied occupied territories of middle Europe. These
unfortunate millions included not just prisoners-of-war but women and children too, and
marching them eastwards into its gulag slave labour camps.
German prisoners in Russian hands are estimated to number from four to
five millions. When Berlin and Breslau surrendered, the long grey-green columns of
prisoners were marched east, downcast and fearful ... toward huge depots near Leningrad,
Moscow, Minsk, Stalingrad, Kiev, Kharkov, and Sevastopol. All fit men had to march
twenty-two miles a day. Those physically handicapped went in handcarts or carts pulled by
spare beasts - Congressional Report, March, 29th, 1946. p.2864 Although the western allies
protested at the illegal, forced and brutal conscription of civilian slaves, (notice the
protest was only about civilian slaves) and their deportation to foreign lands, the
Soviets 'produced a proclamation signed by General Dwight Eisenhower a year earlier which
conceded agreement on this point.' The protests stopped and very few of those millions of
enslaved Germans, press-ganged to Stalin's gulags, ever returned.
Former US President Herbert Hoover wrote in the US News July 18 1952: "The
souls of one quarter of mankind have been seared by the violation of that American
promise. The ghosts of the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter now wander amid the
clanking chains of a thousand slave camps."
"The daily diet in Russian slave camps is soup and
lectures on the glories of Communism and the evils of western democracy. The slightest
disobedience is penalised by such heavy work that a third of the culprits die within three
weeks from exhaustion. A tenth of the slaves died during the first year, according to
those who have returned." Wrote Hal Foust, correspondent in Berlin. August
11th, 1946. Chicago Tribune Press Service. On November 30 1945 The Associated Press in
Stockholm reported: "German prisoners who were to be turned over to the
Russians often committed suicide or tried to incapacitate themselves by slashing their
bodies with knives, razors, or bits of glass."
EASTERN EUROPE: In Communist Eastern Europe signed
over to the Soviets by Churvchill at Tehran and Yalta concentration camps in Eastern
Europe were typically barbaric. "Armed Czech women and Jewesses continued hitting the
womb of expectant mothers with truncheons until a miscarriage followed, and in one single
camp ten German women died daily in this way."
Document M.6: "In another camp, the inmates were forced to lick
the bespattered brains of their fellow prisoners who had been beaten to death. German
prisoners were forced to lick up infectious faeces from the underwear of their fellow
prisoners suffering from dysentery."
Document. No.17: "There are four concentration camps in the
neighbourhood and the screaming of maltreated people can be heard by those who reside near
by."
"Frightful excesses occurred in Camp Lamsdorf in Upper Silesia,
where a camp population of 8,064 Germans were literally decimated through starvation, hard
labour and physical maltreatment. One of the surviving German doctors recorded the deaths
of 6,488 inmates of Lamsdorf including 628 children." Wrote Alfred deZayas in his
Nemesis at Potsdam (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London).
And in ROMANIA 30,000 Hungarians, mostly of the
professional classes were summarily executed by the invading Soviets and Rumanian
Communists. In addition it is estimated that 200,000 Germans and Croats died in Rumanian
death camps.
FRANCE: And of France John Thompson of the Chicago
Tribune Press, August, 24th, 1946 wrote: "France, according to the
International Red Cross, had 680,000 German soldiers slaving for her in August, 1946.
475,000 of their number had been captured by the United States and later turned over to
the French for forced labour."
"In certain (French concentration camps) for German
prisoners-of-war, living skeletons may be seen almost like those in German concentration
camps, and deaths from undernourishment are numerous. We learn that prisoners have been
savagely and systematically beaten and that some of them have been employed in removing
mines without protective equipment so that they are condemned to die sooner or
later." - Figaro, The Progressive, January, 14th, 1946. "In a
camp for the Sarthe District for 20,000 prisoners, inmates received 900 calories a day;
thus twelve die every day in the hospital. Four to five thousand are unable to work at all
any more. Recently trains with new prisoners arrived at the camp; several prisoners had
died during the trip, several others had tried to stay alive by eating coal that had been
lying in the freight train by which they came In an Orleans camp, the commander received
16 francs a day per head or prisoner to buy food, but he spent only 9 francs, so that
prisoners were starving. In the Charante district, 2,500 of the 12,000 camp inmates are
sick." Reported Ralph F. Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, Institute of American
Economics. Louis Clair in The Progressive, January 14th 1946 reported: "A witness
reports on the camp a Langres. 'I have seen them beaten with rifle butts and kicked with
feet in the streets because they broke down of overwork. Two or three of them die with
exhaustion every week. In another camp near Langres, 700 prisoners slowly die of hunger;
they have hardly any blankets and not enough straw to sleep on; there is a typhoid
epidemic in the camp which has already spread to the neighbouring village. In another camp
prisoners receive only one meal a day but are expected to continue working. Elsewhere so
many have died recently that the cemetery space was exhausted and another cemetery had to
be built. In a camp where the prisoners work on the removal of mines, regular food
supplies arrive only every second day so that, 'prisoners make themselves a soup of grass
and some stolen vegetables'. All prisoners of this camp have contracted tuberculosis ...
many cases have been reported were men have been so horribly beaten that their limbs were
broken. In one camp, men were awakened during the night, called out of their barracks and
then shot, 'because of attempted escape.... these are the facts.'"
German slaves, many of the civilians were even kidnapped by the
Americans: "After we (The United States) had delivered the first 320,000
prisoners, the French returned 2,474 of them to us, claiming that we had given them
weaklings. Correspondents described them as, 'a beggar army of pale thin men clad in
vermin-infested tatters.' All were pronounced unfit for work - and 19% had to be
hospitalised."
Is reported in the Congressional Records, December 11th, 1945. A-5816
Asked to investigate, the International Red Cross agreed that German prisoners-of-war were
receiving inhumane treatment from the French. The United States threatened to stop the
supply of German prisoners-of-war at which the French protested that the supply must be
maintained or they would suffer heavy financial loss.
Henry Wales, Paris, March, 12th, 1946, Chicago Tribune Press Service
reported: "It then came out that the French Government was hiring the men out to
French employers at an average of 150 francs per day per man. Out of this the government
paid each prisoner-of-war 10 francs, and stood the extra daily cost of upkeep estimated at
40 francs. It was making a profit of 100 francs per slave per day, and this over 50
billion francs a year from German prisoner-of-war slaves."
Okay, that is the Soviet Bloc and France dealt with as major operators
in the 20th Century slave labour racket for which Germany should be compensated. But what
of the use of slaves by America and yes our own Britain?
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