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trainload of returned forced laborers. As the sealed cars were opened by the armed guards who had
been riding on top, the girls were greeted with thin, scabby faced men in rags begging for water or
hysterically calling for help in removing the dead." - Ralph Franklin Keeling, Gruesome Harvest
A professional nurse reported: "They had been in the train almost a week travelling about 60 miles
from Frankfurt-am-Oder. There had been deaths from starvation; not from starvation just during the
ride, but from the hardships of the trip after months of malnutrition in Russian labor camps. Almost
all of the 800 or 900 in the train were sick or cripples. You might say they were all invalids. With 40
or fifty packed in each of these little boxcars, the sick had to sleep beside the dead on their homeward
journey. I did not count them but I am sure we removed more than 25 corpses. Others had to be
taken to hospitals. I asked several of the men whether the Russian guards or doctors had done
anything on the trip to care for the sick. They said, 'No.'"
A professional nurse to Hal Foust, Berlin, August 11th 1946, Chicago Tribune Press Service
"The daily diet in Russian slave camps is soup and lectures on the glories of Communism and the
evils of western democracy. The slightest disobedience is penalized by such heavy work that a third
of the culprits die within three weeks from exhaustion. A tenth of the slaves died during the first year,
according to those who have returned." - Hal Foust, Berlin. August, 11th, 1946. Chicago Tribune
Press Service
"German prisoners who were to be turned over to the Russians often committed suicide or tried to
incapacitate themselves by slashing their bodies with knives, razors, or bits of glass."
Associated Press, Stockholm, November 30th 1945
CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN EASTERN EUROPE
"Armed Czech women and Jewesses continued hitting the womb of expectant mothers with
truncheons until a miscarriage followed, and in one single camp ten German women died daily in this
way." - Document. M.6
"In another camp, the inmates were forced to lick the bespattered brains of their fellow prisoners who
had been beaten to death. German prisoners were forced to lick up infectious feces from the
underwear of their fellow prisoners suffering from dysentery." - Document. No.17
"Shortly before 9.00am they (the Czech National Guard) marched through the streets calling on all
Germans to be standing outside their front doors at 9.00 o'clock with one piece of hand luggage each,
ready to leave town, forever. Women had ten minutes in which to wake and dress their children,
bundle a few possessions into their suitcases and come out on to the pavement.
Here they were ordered to hand over all their jewelry, watches, furs, and money to their guards,
retaining only their wedding rings; then they were marched out of town at gun-point .... they were
pushed into a field for the night... .which had been turned into a concentration camp. They had only
the food which the guards gave them from time to time. They had received no rations..."
"A typhus epidemic now rages amongst them, and they are said to be dying at the rate of 100 a day."
"Twenty-five thousand men, women and children made this forced march from Brno...."
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