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in camps - many of which aré overcrowded and heavily guarded. Some
of these camps are the very ones where these people were herded
together, starved, tortured by the Germans, and made to witness the
death of their fellow-inmates and friends and relatives. The announced
policy, it is true, has been to give such persons preference over the
German civilian population in housing. But the practice seens to be
quite another thing.
We must intensify our efforts to get these people out of camps
and into decent houses, until they can be repatriated or evacuated.
These houses should be requisitioned from the German civilian popula-
tion. That is one way to implement the Potsdam policy that the German
people "cannot escape responsibility for what they have brought upon
THUMAN
themselves.
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND.
I quote this paragraph of the report with particular reference
to the Jews among the displaced persons:
"As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as
the Nazis treated then except that we do not exterminate them. They
are in concentration camps in large numbers under our military guard
instead of s.s. troops. One is led to wonder whether the German
people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at
least condoning Nazi policy.
You will find in the report other illustrations of what I mean.
I hope you will adopt the suggestion made in the report that a
more extensive program of field visitation by appropriate Army Group
Headquarters be carried out so that the humane policies which have
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