European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                They want to get Back to Germany by Howard Katzander in ninety internment Camps in German evacuated from East Prussia in the closing months of Are almost totally unaware of the nature of life in their Homeland today Vossa Copenhagen the Best fed germans in i Europe today Are the evacuees who still have the Good Fortune to be interned in the Mist of the Lush farmlands of they occupy the Cushist concentration Camps in Europe As unwelcome guests the Danes on whom they descended by the Boatload in the final two months before the German almost totally unaware of the nature of life in Germany they yearn for return to the they Are the cock est of the least bruised by the aftermath of completely unreconstructed from the Days when they enthusiastically helped their they Are a from East evacuated from that area before the Onrush of the red their most vivid memory of the their flight and the five Days of horror they spent jammed into the holds of freighters that them from Germany to their most bitter complaint concerning their treatment by the Danes is against the strictly enforced Rule in the As Frau Eva Wiss wife of a University professor in who guided us about the said with a straight it is not so much we want to be friends with the danish but this Rule makes us feel we Are being treated As though we were an inferior since the their Upkeep has Cost the danish government a 3 per cent of Den Marks National income and half the amount of her annual prewar budget in Danes spend More on the Upkeep of the germans than they spend on education in this enormous financial Burden on a of some four million people has seriously retarded postwar re covery in no one is Happy about the not the prussian welled German children Romp in the Yard of this Camp evacuees who grow fat and healthy on their Rich diet of 2300 calories a but Are far from contented with the empty lives they the Day is not yet in sight when they will be and the Danes Are deter mined to keep them in Camps until they Russia has agreed to accept half of them in the russian zone of which they All rightfully belong since they were evacuated from controlled by americans v and British would accept the other half into their respective but Bavaria is crowded with evacuees from sudetenland and German in the British is overrun with other prussian evac so neither the american nor British authorities in Germany Are Able to relieve Denmark of her Bur Den even though Denmark has offered to Barracks they no occupy for living Only the French thus far have agreed to a a Mere two who lived in that part of one of the largest of the ninety refugee Camps is situated in a suburb of Copenhagen on what was once the Klove Marken nothing now remains As a reminder of areas previous the Small clubhouse has been taken Over administrative offices and All traces of fair Way and Sand traps have been obliterated by the rows of wooden Barracks and cinder the Camp houses seventeen thou Sand germans of whom nine Sand Are five Hundred Are children and Only three thousand Are most of the male population consists of men above military age or below military physical the Camp is divided into three1 sections known As the Blue and Gray for the color of buildings in a system devised to help the inhabitants find their Way among the tical rows of Young Chil Dren Wear identification tags giving their hut numbers and the color of their the school area consisting of a scorer so of naturally is painted there is a compulsory course for All students below eighteen on what is but Wissman said that learning democracy behind barbed very As we entered first an English f teen aged a boy leaped from his shouted and class Rose As one in respect to the i they would not be seated Fli until we and after that continued their English a quiz on Milton Paradise lost this group of Twenty Deveja girl Sis and three boys was one of specially difficult groups Frau Wissi Man explained because they re Santa being penned up animals they a want to go she told in a  theuk were Given topics to write including that was the one they without exception and they All essays on their they looked they furnished and what life was before became after was Teek entire group waited to catch walking Down another cinder Rand began to Harmony and accented old Kentucky watching w covertly to gauge our is a a concert a Library and two with 750 to provide some Active Tuii for the men in the Camp there smokehouse in which the evacuees can cure such surpluses of fish As find their Way into the Camp there Are crude shops set up for trivia is and in the there Little to do for the spend the Day lying their whittling bits of tangling i Domestic Are always one or two preg Nant women in the Camp and that Are taken to a Copenhagen Hospital for delivery of their there it a painted Pink and blut with Gay wooden toys strewn can visit babies get the same ration Given danish infants and every facility provided for their health and fort the building is heated whip is More than you could say for x danish Homes this past Winter warm clothing is provided by Short on All mat have spent Llumi foreign Exchange in Sweden for the cribs were built Camp All the babies the rare fifteen More to of them having been fathered danish All former m of the danish guards were sentence to Long in prison for breaking the non Niza Tion seventeen thousand persons Are held in this enclosure covering a former Golf course Are 4600 children in 1 Camp whom 3500 going school books they have were supplied Byul who have undertaken special text books German their there Are taught by thirty five former signal an about others who have been trained experienced several signal educators were disqualified s the danish government for 1 Broad a taint of Frau v showed us Library which contained pc of lenins work in emphasis now is on converting you she remarked pointing out the Lenin everything we get is Young people continued on 10