SOVIET BUCHENWALD
almqst as bad as nazis Receiyed Pri'day, 8.3.Q p.m. L.ONDON, June 13. Reports reacljing Berliu from ap parentjy re.lieWo sources indica,te the .eoncentration ca.mPS r\m by •tiiie Russiaas in the Soviet zoiie o. Gterrftapy are scarcely better than hA9S.e pf the Nazi regime, says the Dctily Telegraph's Beylin correspondent, • Some c&mps such as BuchenwaAa , dre looat,e.d in the §.a-me hutments as the* origin4l camps, BucMenwe.ld is estimated to; contMn about 15,000 pri&oners of ajl types, including not only former Storm Troppers put also landowners, former officrais, of the Social Democret and Christiau Democrat parties and ?. large number of persons apparently arrested merely b,ecause they refused to co,op.erate With the Communists. The camp is guarded by Russian troops but the admini&tration is carried out by German members of the Socialist Unity Party. The food consists of two daily meals of watery soup and one piece of hread. --yadlng and all forms of recreation are forhfdden.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1947, Page 5
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