VILE TREATMENT
OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN GERMANY.
REPORTED BY REPATRIATED AIRMAN.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 9.
An R.A.F. fighter pilot repatriated from Germany described the German treatment of Russian prisoners of war as not brutality but assassination. He added that 8000 Russian prisoners in one camp were treated like mangy dogs. The daily ration was one kilo of bread for six men. As a result the camp mortality rate was more than 50 per cent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1943, Page 3
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76VILE TREATMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1943, Page 3
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