An outbreak of infantile paralysis in the Fritz##ar DP camp, north of Frankfurt, caused the death of one child today. Four others ###re in a serious condition, it was reported. The U.S. Army placed the camp out of bounds while doctors and health agencies were working overtime to save the stricken children.
A group of recently-arrived Rumanian Jewish refugees who were moved from two Jewish DP camps to the Augsburg refugee center by U.S. military police are living under squalid conditions, it was learned here today. The 100 Jews, including infants and children, are receiving meager German rations and have practically no fuel.
Dr. Philip Auerbach, Bavarian Commissioner for Persecutes is believed to be preparing to grant the refugees 2,000-calory rations, which are reserved for German workers engaged in heavy industry. The American Military Government, however, acting on Auerbach’s orders countermanded the Ministry and insisted that the Jews live on German refugee rations – 1,350 calories. A visitor to the camp said today the refugees are hungry and are anxiously awaiting a shipment of J.D.C. supplementary.
The Jews, who have been in the camp for three days, are living in partitioned barracks accommodating between 20 and 25 persons. They expressed bitterness over the methods used by the U.S. military officials who rounded them up and “forced them to wait for three hours in freezing temperatures for open trucks which brought them to Augsburg barracks,” which they said were “cold, unprepared and extremely dirty.” Many of the Jews said openly they would not remain in the camp but would leave as soon as possible.
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