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TO THE VICTORS GO THE SLAVES<br />

Enslavement <strong>of</strong> Prisoners <strong>of</strong> War is a violation <strong>of</strong> the Geneva Convention.<br />

Article.75.<br />

Whilst this chapter deals with illegal enslavement, an <strong>of</strong>fence that does not discriminate in respect <strong>of</strong><br />

a slave's status be he (or she) a Prisoner-<strong>of</strong>-War, a civilian, a non-national or a child, it should be<br />

remembered that with the exception <strong>of</strong> the Japanese-American citizens and civilians, the enslavement<br />

<strong>of</strong> the vanquished occurred after victory had been won and hostilities ended. <strong>The</strong>refore, these<br />

slaves were by status in law free men and women, and not prisoners-<strong>of</strong>-war.<br />

CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE SOVIET UNION<br />

Long after the war had ended, Russia which already had a slave population estimated to be at least<br />

20,000,000 souls, was rounding up Germans in the seized territories; mostly men, but women and<br />

children too, and marching them eastwards into its gulag slave labor camps.<br />

"German prisoners in Russian hands are estimated to number from four to five millions. When Berlin<br />

and Breslau surrendered, the long grey-green columns <strong>of</strong> prisoners were marched east, downcast and<br />

fearful... toward huge depots near Leningrad, Moscow, Minsk, Stalingrad, Kiev, Kharkov, and<br />

Sevastopol. All fit men had to march twenty-two miles a day. Those physically handicapped went in<br />

handcarts or carts pulled by spare beasts...." - Congressional Report, March, 29th, 1946. p.2864<br />

Although the western allies protested at the illegal, forced and brutal conscription <strong>of</strong> civilian slaves,<br />

and their deportation to foreign lands, the Soviets 'produced a proclamation signed by General Dwight<br />

Eisenhower a year earlier which conceded agreement on this point.' <strong>The</strong> protests stopped. Very few<br />

<strong>of</strong> those millions <strong>of</strong> enslaved Germans, press-ganged to Stalin's gulags, ever returned.<br />

FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER<br />

"<strong>The</strong> souls <strong>of</strong> one quarter <strong>of</strong> mankind have been seared by the violation <strong>of</strong> that American promise.<br />

<strong>The</strong> ghosts <strong>of</strong> the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter now wander amid the clanking chains <strong>of</strong> a<br />

thousand slave camps." - U.S. News, July 18th 1952<br />

"<strong>The</strong> German Red Cross is still searching for more than half a million human beings who were<br />

reported as being missing. According to a Munich published listing <strong>of</strong> the DKR-Suchdienst (German<br />

Red Cross Search Service), there were still open files on 436,641 Wehrmacht servicemen reported<br />

missing, and for 147,578 non-military German prisoners. Up to March <strong>of</strong> this year, 1.74 million<br />

missing German soldiers <strong>of</strong> the German Wehrmacht, and 357,490 non-military German prisoners<br />

were registered." - <strong>The</strong> Voice <strong>of</strong> German Americans<br />

THE FEW WHO DID RETURN<br />

"German Red Cross girls went at 9.00am on the morning <strong>of</strong> September, 10th, 1946, to meet a 20-car<br />

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