Word: herleshausen
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Great crowds set off for Herleshausen, a border village where the Russians would deliver the prisoners. It was an odd, silent pilgrimage-government officials, clerics, rich Germans from the cities, farmers in their Sunday best. All wore the strained expression of desperate hope...
...Hundreds of thousands of others listed by the Germans as missing have never been accounted for by the Russians, but "a few,"-perhaps 13,000, said Moscow-were kept, tried as war criminals and sentenced to punishment in Soviet jails and labor camps. Those who came home through Herleshausen last week in batches of 400 to 500 a day were the "war criminals." In one shipment, the Russians sent back eleven generals,* but most of the returning P.W.s were soldiers of Wehrmacht and SS battalions which fought in Russia...
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