Letter, General Dwight D. Eisenhower to President Harry S. Truman
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-Government...
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OCR Page 1 of 5Cop. or General Eisenhower
8 October 1945
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Dear Mr. President:
This is my full report on matters pertaining to the and welfare
of the Jewish viotims of Masi persegution within the United States Zone
of Gormany. It deala with conditions reported by Mr. Earl G. Harrison,
U. S. Representative on the Inter-dovernmental Committee on Refugees,
which was forwarded to me under dover of your letter of 31 August 1945.
Sines Mr. Harrison's visit in July many changos have talcen plaos
with respect to the condition of Jowish and other displaced persons.
Except for teuporarily crowded conditions, the result of shifts be'wween
stablished centers and an influx of persons into centers as winter
approaches, housing de on B reasenable basis. llovertheless, efforts
to improve their condition continue unabated. Subordinate commandors
are under orders to requisition German houses, grounds, and other
facilities vithout hesitation for this purpose.
The housing problem must be seem in full perspective. This winter
the villages and towms in the U. 8. Zone of Germany will be required
to house more than twico their normal population. One million and
a hals Germen air raid refugees who were avacuated into Southwestern
Germany. together with soma 600,000 Gormans, Volkedeutsche and
Sudetena who fled from Poland, How Poland, Gzechoslovakia and Yugo-
slavia before the advanoing Red Armies have crosted a condition of
congestion in the U. s. Zone which foross the most gareful conservation
of housing space. At this moments the U. 8. Zone is under orders to
absorb 152,00 more Germans from Austria. Added to this influx of
population, there is the loss of housing in bombed-out cities, averaging
well over to percents the necessity for billeting large numbers of our
troops; and the accommodation required for prisoners of war. The
resulting housing shortage is not morely soute. but desperate. Not-
withstanding this situation, in my recent inspections and those made
by my staff of Jewish centera, although crowded conditions were found,
copies to G-3, G-4,6-5.
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