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opinion, prevailed in these camps. After the German
capitulation, he had been requested by the Allied
authorities to come to Germany to be at their disposal
as a witness in certain questions. He was promised
that he would receive the best possible treatment,
but actual circumstances were not what he had
expected. He was transferred from one camp to
another, in which conditions, as he described them,
were really outrageous. They were not very different
from those which once prevailed in the German
concentration camps. This German, when I met him,
had been released on the request of that branch of
the occupation authorities which was in charge of
industrial and commercial reconstruction in
Germany. He asked me if I could do something in the
matter and I promised to try.
I went down to the British Headquarters where I
had a long conversation with some generals who were
in charge of these internment camps. It was very
interesting to observe their reaction and I remember
how one of them stated that this was something
terrible. It was not, he said, for this that the English
had fought a long and bloody war. The two generals
suggested, after I had finished my report, that my
German informant come to their Headquarters to
give a further account of his experiences and
observations. He did, and later on, I was informed by
the English that, of course, they considered his
narrative exaggerated, but that they would do
everything in their power to prevent a repetition of
such occurrences.
Since then, I have unfortunately received evidence
that similar cases had occurred in other parts of the
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