Hannen Swaffer charged in his Daily Herald column today that interned Nazi war prisoners were abusing and assaulting civilian refugees who are being held in the same camps. He urged intervention by the War Minister to “put the matter right.” The columnist cited letters from internees revealing that the war prisoners were terrorizing and beating up Jews and Socialists.
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