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the Russian authorities in a repatriation of prisoners
of war. The representatives should also request
permission to visit prison camps.
During my stay in Geneva, I had the opportunity
to visit an institution organized by the International
Red Cross, the Agence Centrale des Prisonniers de
Guerre”. Its task was to register prisoners of war,
to deal with inquiries regarding them, and to search
for missing personnel in cases Where it was not
known whether the person in question had been killed
or taken prisoner. The agency, which had a staff of
over three thousand people and which, since the
beginning of the war, had answered millions of
letters, worked with the utmost care and precision.
As an example, I recall the following case. An
English soldier was reported missing. His comrades
stated that he had been shot near a big tree in the
neighborhood of a church in France, but they could
not give the name of the village, only that part of
France in which the battle had been fought. From
Geneva, a questionnaire was sent to all the priests
in that particular part of France, based on the
information received from the comrades of the fallen
soldier. After many months of correspondence, it
was finally ascertained which church it was. The
priest affirmed that the man in question had been
killed, and his relatives could now be informed as
to where he was buried.
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