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...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...Russians want a strong and friendly Poland; according to Polish sources, the British have unofficially urged the Polish Government in Exile to cede the Pripet Marshes to Russia, keep the important city of Lwów, and presumably compensate themselves in East Prussia and German Silesia. In the Balkans, Russia will want a strong voice in Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria, where Soviet influence is strong...
...Axis, Italy was an economic liability to Germany, got more than she gave: coal, rolling stock, iron & steel products, machinery, machine tools. The prime Italian demand on the U.S. will be for coal (she has been receiving 1,000,000 tons a month from the western Reich and Silesia). The day after the surrender was announced, Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes revealed that the U.S. is already sending undisclosed amounts of coal to Italy. Only the future would reveal how much oil and gasoline the U.S. must now add to the total going abroad...
...were not willing slaves: they could be exchanged for Naziphile prisoners, and France's best blood thus diluted by its worst. Laval did his best to oblige. He yelled for more workers. He sent foreign and French Jews by the thousands to Nazi labor camps in Poland and Silesia. He ordered 1,600 factories in Unoccupied France shut down. He warned France that lack of raw materials would soon increase the number. He told tens of thousands of unemployed Frenchmen to "volunteer" for work at "high" wages in German factories to produce "for victory over Bolshevism...
...Author Wodehouse is in prison at Tost, Upper Silesia, and mail should reach him if addressed to: Gefangenennummer: 796 Lager-Bezeichnung: Offag VIII D Deutschland (Allemagne...