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character of life in this part of the country. For
example, near the airport was a German camp with
a number of aircraft and trucks nearby, and on the
other side of the road was a little town of barracks
from which the Belgian, Dutch, Polish and
Czechoslovakian flags were flying. There were few steps
between friend and foe, but conditions had changed
now. Of course, all the camps were surrounded by
barbed wire but their inhabitants could come and go
as they wished. Regulations in the German camps,
however, were much more restrictive. Signs had been
put up stating within which areas Germans were
allowed to move. If they had to leave the camp on
duty, they had to carry a white arm band and have
passes. All German vehicles had to fly white flags.
Guard duty was performed to a great extent by young
boys of the resistance, sixteen or seventeen years old,
with the prescribed machine guns under their arms.
After a beautiful automobile ride, we came to the
Swedish hospital. In addition to their services here,
the Swedish doctors and nurses helped take care of
Russian prisoners in a hospital under Russian
administration nearby. The Swedish Hospital contained
about two hundred patients, most of whom suffered
from tuberculosis or malnutrition. When I went
around in the hospital rooms and talked with the
patients through an interpreter, many stories of
disrupted lives were unfolded to me, and I was told
much about the brutal treatment they had been
exposed to by the Germans. From what was told me,
the Russians had been frightened in the beginning.
They had believed that it was Germans who again had
taken over the hospital. But after it became clear to
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