Fourteen patients at the Foehrenwald DP camp hospital have called off a hunger strike, when German officials visited the hospital and promised to investigate the possibility of accommodating the entire group in a Munich institution when the camp is closed. The patients insisted on being together after the expected liquidation of the camp.
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