How Russia Regards Human Life
7 Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, August 3. Describing the Russian network of slave camps, the Daily Telegraph 's Yienna eorrespondent says details given him hy former inmates, indicated that Russia regarded her millions of forced lahourers as valuable animals who were treated only for serious illness to preserve their utility. Among the camps was oue for boys and girls aged 7 to 20 years. Some of the girls acted as armed guards. Foreigners in the camps were drawn from every European country through which the Russian armies had passed. Poles, Hungarians, Germans, Rumanians and Balts were said to predominate.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 August 1949, Page 7
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