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"One train, which arrived in Berlin on August, 31st, started from Danzig on the 24th with 325 patients
and orphans from the Marien Hospital and the orphanage in the Weidlergasse. They were packed into
five cattle trucks, with nothing to cover the floors, not even straw. .... the only food provided when the
journey began (a week earlier) was twenty potatoes and two slices of bread for each orphan. The
patients had nothing, but the train stopped from time to time so that the passengers strong enough
could forage. Between six and ten of the patients in each truck died during their journey. The bodies
were simply thrown out of the train.
About the same time, a transport of Sudetenlanders - men, women and children, arrived from
Troppau. They had been travelling in open cattle trucks for eighteen days. They numbered 2,400
when they set out and 1,350 when they arrived, so that 1,050 had perished on the way."
F.A Voigt, Nineteenth Century and After
"On the train to Berlin she (a Stettin nurse) was pillaged once by Russian troops and twice by Poles
who, she said were far more savage than the Russians. Women who resisted were shot dead, she said,
and on one occasion she saw a Polish guard take an infant by the legs and crush its skull against a post
because the child cried while the guard was raping the mother."
Donald MacKenzie, Berlin Correspondent, New York Daily News, October 7th 1945
"Under the bomb-wrecked roof of the Stettiner Railway Station, I looked this afternoon inside a cattle
truck.... on one side four forms lay dead under blankets on cane and raffia stretches; in another corner,
four more, all women, were dying. One in a voice we could hardly hear, was crying for water."
"Sitting on a stretcher, so weakened by starvation that he could not move his head or his mouth, his
eyes opened in a deranged, uncomprehending stare, was the wasted frame of a man. He was dying,
too."
"Two women sanitary helpers did what they could in ministering to the small wants of the dying."
"Those people in the cattle truck, and hundreds who lay on bundles of belongings on the platform and
in the booking hall, were the dead and dying and starving flotsam left by the tide of human misery
that daily reaches Berlin....."
"There are 8 million homeless nomads milling about the areas of the provinces around Berlin."
"Other things I saw when the Danzig train came in I am bound to record. Apart from the women
rocking in tears and anguish, and the famished children asleep in their arms or crying for food, there
was a group of young men - all Poles - who sat apart, waiting for the next train to go out. Then they
would board it, and going through the train, would force these unprotected mothers and women to
give up any possession of value... the guards at the stopping places are shot if they attempt t
intervene." - Norman Clark, Berlin, News Chronicle, August 24th 1945
FAMINE AS A DELIBERATE POLICY OF GENOCIDE
That there was a deliberate policy to reduce Germany's population through a program of starvation, is
not a matter of dispute, but first the statistics of the effects of starvation on human beings.
The average daily diet for a healthy working man is 7,600 calories; an active woman at least 2,200.
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