Many French-Jewish officers who were taken prisoner by the German army have recently been transferred to a “reprisal camp” in Luebeck, known as “Stalag 90,” where they are confined in special barracks, it was reported here today.
The newspaper Libres, organ of the National Movement of War Prisoners and Deportees, today urged American action to ensure equality of treatment by Germans for prisoners of war regardless of nationality. The paper contrasts the scrupulous treatment of German prisoners by the Americans with the shocking treatment of French captives by the Germans.
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