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    "title": "Letter, General Dwight D. Eisenhower to President Harry S. Truman",
    "description": "This letter details the actions taken by the military government of the U.S. Zone of Occupation to house, feed, and cloth Jewish displaced persons.  Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote the letter in response to the report of Earl G. Harrison, U.S. Representative on the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees. The Harrison Report alleged that Jewish displaced persons were ill-treated in ways comparable to the Nazi regime.",
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    "ocrText": "Necessary guarding should be done by displaced persona\nthomselves on the volunteer ayotem and without arms.\nMilitery supervisors may be employed, but will not be\n6\nused as sentries except in auergenay. Everything should\nbe done to encourage displaced persons to understand that\nthay have been freed from tyronny, and that the supervision\nexcroised over them is meroly that necessary for their own\nprotection and well-being, and to facilitate essential\nmaintenance.\nx feel that we have problema of shelter and survoillange in hand.\nor equal importence is the provision of sufficiont and appetizing\nfood. In the past, a 2,000-oalorie minimum diet was prescribed for\nall displaced persons in approved centers. Our field inspections\nhave shown that in many this sonla was consistently exceeded,\nbut there have also besn sporadio instances where it was not met.\nThree or four thousand peraous of the persecuted oategories, including\nGerman Jows, in the Amerioan Zone have returned to their home communities.\nMany are there a gensaine effort to rewestablish themselves.\nUntil recently, thore has been no system of assuring adequate\nfood for this group, although in most thay haive been given double\nrations.\nI have recantily raised the daily galorio food value per person for\nordinary displaced porsons in approved ceuters to 2,300, and for\nracial, religious and politionl persequtoes to a minimum of 2,500.\nFeeding utendards heve also been presoribed and sufficient Red Gross\nfood parcela and imported Givil Government foodstuffa\nare on hand to supplement indigenous aupplies and meet requisitions\nto mintain these standards. We auo now issuing a directive that those\nJows and other persoguted persone who ahoose and are able to return to\ntheir commities will receive a minimas ration of 2,500 calories per\nday, as well ILS clothing and shoes, the anne as those in centers.\nGlothing and shoss are available in adequate amounts and o2 suitable\ntypes. Uniformly excellent medional atrention is available to all\nJewish people in our centera where they have generally adequate\nsanitary faoilities. UNIRRA and AJDC staffs, which are administering\nan increasing number of our centers, are becoming efficient, and are\nmalcing it possible for these people to onjoy spiritually uplifting\nreligious programs as well as schooling for childron.\nIt is freely admitted that there in need for improvement. The\nschools need more booles; leisure-time and welfare activities must be\n-3-"
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