Fifty-one Jews from a nearby DP camp were today being held for questioning regarding the beating of two American soldiers last week by a group of DP’s at the camp, following an assault by three other soldiers on several Jews. Meanwhile, the Army continues to maintain a cordon of military police with fixed bayonets around the camp.
Jewish circles today charged that the two soldiers who were beaten are members of a local group of anti-Semitic soldiers which has been harassing the displaced Jews. Previcus reports said that the soldiers, Privates Robert C. Kennedy and Thomas ?. Ulrich, were innocent victime of a reualiatory act. The new accusation states that the two were members of an organized gang which has beaten a number of Jews retantly.
American military authorities yesterday admitted that American soldiers had provoked the incident and promised that they would be punished.
Dispatches from Dachan, where a number of German prison personnel are on trial for war crimes, report that a former Jewish inmate told an American tribucal that Gervernman civilians who supervised slave labor gangs were “as bad as the Gestapo,” The withness, Joseph Berman, called to refute defense claims that civilians on trial had not committed war crimes, declared that he personally knew of sight prisoners who died from beatings administered by German civilians in factories where the prisoners worked. He also charged the civilians with informing on the DP’s to the Gestapo.
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