The first comparative figures concerning the number of persons deported from France by the Germans, which appear today in the newspaper Liberation, disclose that there were 108,000 “racial” deportees and 100,000 political deportees.
The figures were obtained from a souree in the Ministry for Prisoners and Deportees, the paper says. The chances of the political prisoners returning, it states, are uncertain, “while the Jews certainly suffered the most horrible treatment in the camps in Eastern Europe.”
Some Jews, although very few, have already returned from German camps. Among 158 men repatriated from Bergen-Belsen are 25 Jews, among 470 women from there are 80 Jews. The Ministry of Deportees declared that it is not aware that any practical steps have been taken to carry out an alleged Red Cross agreement for the repatriation of all deportees from France still in German hands.
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