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...women were survivors of Eastern Germany's concentration camps. Released by the Russians as a propaganda gesture, they were the last of some 200,000 political prisoners whom the Russians had interned since the end of the war in the infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General Vasily Chuikov announced that...
This week Marshal Stalin announced that Red Army units had reached the Elbe at Mühlberg - 30 miles northwest of Dresden and almost due east of Leipzig. Technically this was not a junction, since the U.S. positions on the Elbe were farther north. But at least the two Allies had reached the banks of the same river...
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