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In Britain, among other projects, the prisoners-of-war were forced to build in Kensington Gardens a
British victory celebration camp to house 24,000 Empire troops who marched in the Empire's Victory
Day Parade. One foreman remarked: 'I guess the Jerries are preparing to celebrate their own
downfall. It does seem as though it is laying it on a bit thick.'
Needless to say, all of these abuses were grossly illegal under international law to which Britain was a
signatory to, and of course contrary to all human standards of civilized behavior. One wonders at the
double standards displayed when whilst at the one time the victors were putting Germans on trial -
and executing them, for the used of forced labor, albeit with prisoners not protected by convention,
the victors were themselves enslaving prisoners under much harsher conditions.... prisoners who were
protected under mutually agreed conventions.... and, long after the war had ended.
£250 MILLION A YEAR FROM SLAVERY
"The British Government nets over $250,000,000 each year from its German slaves, hiring them out
at up to $20 a week, and paying the slaves up to 20 cents a day. The prisoners are never given cash
but are provided with credits instead.
In March, 1946, 140,000 prisoners-of-war were working on farms which earned the government $14 a
week per prisoner, 24,000 on housing and bomb damage projects, 22,000 on the railways; others in
odd jobs or waiting on G.I brides awaiting shipment to America."
According to Members of Parliament at the time, 130,000 German prisoners-of-war are held in
Belgian camps.
"The prisoners lived through the winter in tents and slept on bare ground under one blanket each.
They say they are underfed and beaten and kicked by the guards. Many have no underclothes or
boots."- Chicago Tribune Service, London, May 19th 1946
"Such were the desperate straits of the German prisoners -of-war that an increasing number of them
were escaping from British slave camps... with British civilian aid. Accounts of the chases by
Military Police are reminiscent of pre-Civil War pursuits by fleeing Negro fugitives."
Chicago Tribune Press Service, London, August 27th 1946
"By mid-September, public indignation had reached such a pitch that the British War Office
announced that plans were underway to release 15,000 prisoners per month, on a selective basis, and
promises were made to improve conditions in the camps."
John Wilhelm, London, September 12th 1946
"When Press representatives ask to examine the prison camps, the British loudly refuse, with the
excuse that the Geneva Convention bars such visits to prisoner-of-war camps."
Arthur Veysey, London, May 28th 1946
THE UNITED STATES
At Dachau, "Three hundred SS camp guards were quickly neutralized."
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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