Soviet’s Large Force Of Armed Germans To Prevent Uprisings

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1948, Page 5

Soviet’s Large Force Of Armed Germans To Prevent Uprisings

LONDON, October 5. The police in the Russian zone of Germany are being trained to use machine-guns and mortars in anticipation of large-scale disorders during the winter, according to the official German language United States Military Government newspaper, Die Neue Zeitung. . „ The British United Press Beilin correspondent says the Russian authpolicemen in their zone. Reports say that large numbers of orities now have 400,000 “purified German war prisoners in Russia have been returned as militiamen. Then job in the Soviet zone is to patrol the borders and quell any attempted uprisings. , , , Dr Kurt Giunher, head of the Soviet central administration, writing in the official organ ot the Com-munist-dominated Socialist Unity Party, Neue Deutschland, declared that‘the Western Powers were preparing to plunge Germany into civil war”. He called for more intensive police training.