European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rite army weekly september by George Barrett yank staff correspondent omens pm enclosure there too smart to the guard and As we walked into the Large Cage three is Sun bathing in shorts and pointedly looked the other they hate and they dont hide the i the Fence around the compound was High and topped by huge coils of barbed but through the wide slits in the Fence German male pcs marching past from a neighbouring Cage looked in at the women and and the is women smiled one of the grinning Young blondes scowled when an american my happened to catch her there 684 women in the Cage some were some were just the rest were yugoslavs and other nationalities who had served nazi Many of them slouched on the or leaned in slovenly fashion against the baracks others stared Down with sour looks from their wooden bunks still who worked on scrubbing moved in deliberate and in solent disregard of any person who passed unless he were a these for the most women who had been left behind in the pm Cage after other prisoners had been screened and some were some were and All were being held for Spe Cial one gentle looking creature had been indicted for a War crime while most of the female pcs were Contemp a few were not at All arrogant these were frightened and showed and when a guard walked through they stepped aside for him they jumped to their feet and stood at attention in their rooms they volunteered to work in the Camp administration it almost seemed that these few went out of their Way to be Humble and submissive to the pm they Are All said one he made a there the opportunists they get along with and they were just As Nice and cooperative when they wore the Sullan crossbones of the is on their there were two gis in the orderly room in Side the women but the daily life of the compound was pretty much run by the there was Little work to keep them and aside from the few who were mopping floors or washing their clothes in outside they dozed lazily in the Sun or just sat and Accord ing to one is the talk was mostly about when they were going to go Home and about she said that the fanatic nazis there were still spreading the gospel among the girls and keeping them in nobody was particularly for As one officer put there not Worth bothering and you  re educate them about a dozen male pcs were roaming around the compound when we and one of the guards said they had been let in to shift some of the wooden As the male prisoners do All the heavy work in the women an officer came through and blew what the hell he this is highly All these men get rid of half of and Soons the other half finish the Job get them the hell out of there has been no sex problem so the officials although one girl was put into solitary confinement when she stood naked be fore her window to tease the once or naturally a German girl has tried to get an american guard nobody a Camp officer the is girls would play All but they would do it and then report the he Hast been anything More serious than a Little id the women were a widely assorted from 16 to and there was an morbid atmosphere in the with so Many females closeted and men being seen Only at a distance or during official the women were unconcerned about their appear Ance and walked in and out of showers and latrines with an easy disregard for male most of them had their civilian clothes with them when they were but a few of them wore Standard pm blues in the some of the women were incredibly like the caricatures cartoonists draw of is women one 25 year old prisoner shuffled listlessly in her dirty a stained Smock dragging from her shoulders and a rolled cigarette dangling under