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In a camp where the prisoners work on the removal of mines, regular food supplies arrive only every
second day so that, 'prisoners make themselves a soup of grass and some stolen vegetables'. All
prisoners of this camp have contracted tuberculosis .... many cases have been reported were men have
been so horribly beaten that their limbs were broken. In one camp, men were awakened during the
night, called out of their barracks and then shot, 'because of attempted escape.... these are the facts.'"
Louis Clair, The Progressive, January 14th 1946
"After we (The United States) had delivered the first 320,000 prisoners, the French returned 2,474 of
them to us, claiming that we had given them weaklings. Correspondents described them as, 'a beggar
army of pale thin men clad in vermin-infested tatters.' All were pronounced unfit for work - and 19%
had to be hospitalized." - Congressional Records, December 11th 1945. A-5816
Asked to investigate, the International Red Cross agreed that German prisoners-of-war were receiving
inhumane treatment from the French. The United States threatened to stop the supply of German
prisoners-of-war at which the French protested that the supply must be maintained or they would
suffer heavy financial loss.
"It then came out that the French Government was hiring the men out to French employers at an
average of 150 francs per day per man. Out of this the government paid each prisoner-of-war 10
francs, and stood the extra daily cost of upkeep estimated at 40 francs. It was making a profit of 100
francs per slave per day, and this over 50 billion francs a year from German prisoner-of-war slaves."
Henry Wales, Paris, March 12th 1946, Chicago Tribune Press Service
"GEE! I HOPE WE DON'T EVER LOSE A WAR!"
"When we (The United States) resumed delivery of slaves, we took pains to make sure that the
prisoners-of-war were is satisfactory physical condition. The men would be lined up and examined,
their mouths opened and inspected, their chests thumped, their joints tried, their ears, eyes and teeth
looked over, as if they were horses being offered for sale. G.Is witnessing the spectacle were heard to
remark: 'Gee! I hope we don't ever lose a war." - Ralph F. Keeling, Gruesome Harvest
On December 6th 1946, almost two years after the war had ended, the United States Government
demanded the repatriation of German prisoners-of-war that they had given to France, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg.
France pledged to return the 620,000 prisoners-of-war she had been given, but protested vehemently
and disclosed that the United States of America on December, 21st, 1945, had 'expressly stipulated
that the Germans captured by the U.S. Army and handed over to France were chattels to be used
indefinitely for slave labor as part of France's war reparations from Germany.'
Ralph Franklin Keeling, Gruesome Harvest
Pretty rich when it is remembered that France had declared war... and carried out acts of war, against
a German nation which had never indicated any aggressive tendencies towards France; a Germany
that had resolutely turned the other cheek while for six months in 1939 - 1940, France had carried out
war against the German nation.
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