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ments concerned did not receive in exchange lists of
their own countrymen who were prisoners in Russia.
Despite repeated and urgent requests from the
Committee in the name of interested nations, the
Soviet government had not sent a single list of
prisoners of war in Russia. The International
Committee had also repeatedly requested permission from
the Soviet government to send delegates to Russia.
In agreement with the Swedish Red Cross, the
Committee had proposed that the Russian government
chose a delegate from a list containing six names,
four of which were outstanding Swedes. No answer
was ever received on this point.
The International Committee also sought
permission to send material aid to prisoners of war in
Russian camps, but the Soviet government did not
reply to the proposals. In any case, the Committee
was extremely anxious for improvement in the
situation, so that the same activities could be performed
among war victims in eastern Europe as in other
parts of the world. We of the Swedish Red Cross
were given to understand that any cooperation we
could lend to solve this important problem would be
highly appreciated by the International Committee.
As far as I can gather, the negative attitude of
the Russians toward these questions Which were so
important to prisoners of war was due to the
knowledge that the Russian prisoners, particularly in
Germany, were treated in an extraordinarily bad
way, and not in the spirit of the Geneva
Conventions. Reports have come from all sides that treatment
of the Russian prisoners by the Germans was
absolutely inhuman. This probably explains but cannot
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