VICHY’S GUILT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1943, Page 6

VICHY’S GUILT

SLAVE TRADE IN FRENCHMEN. PRESS GANG METHODS USED French workers who do not respond io the calling-up notice to present themselves for deportation to Germany receive a telegram, "Present yourself tomorrow midday last delay, to the Kommandantur otherwise hostages will be taken in your family.” In a factory near Paris where part of the workers had continued with their .work instead of taking the train for Germany, their employer was seized by the Germans when he refused to point out the men who had been called up. The Germans then rounded up 70 men and women, corresponding to the number of workmen who ought to have left, and held them until the workmen they sought ' consented to make themselves known. Their employer was not released, although the men had given themselves up, and he is now in prison. When the Germans go to the factories to fetch workers, the men are carried off immediately without having time to go to their homes to bid their families goodbye. At Puteaux, in the Paris region, among a number of workmen who had been taken there from Troyes for a short course in machine work (here was a workman of 45 who had been taken off with his two sons, without their having been given a chance to warn their family.