European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse V 51 v polish peasant one in i sort seed potatoes before planting them in the Rich Loam of the farm area report from Poland the new pioneers by Betty Luros Many repatriated Dps Are travelling like americans of a Century to seek their fortunes and a new life Poland two years Rudd cheeked Stanislaw Kropinski belonged to that heterogeneous mass of up rooted europeans Urra classified As displaced resettled on a fifteen acre farm near the former German resort town of in Poland new Western he is called a his Story of How he was taken prisoner by the Ger mans after the Warsaw uprising in the late summer of liberated from Buchenwald by the army in the Spring of 1945 and sent to Unoras Wil Flecken Camp for care until he could be is a common one throughout but it is especially common in Western where thousands of onetime displaced per sons Are creating a new life in an area that was German a few years like most of his neigh believes it will be Tough sled Ding for another year or until there is sufficient livestock to go Urra has sent in horses and head of but there is still a serious farm machinery is and the twelve thousand or so tractors Urra imported Arent nearly the farm ers help one another for has a cow but no one of his neighbors has a horse but no in Exchange for milk for his neighbors Kropinski uses the horse two Days a his wife raises chickens and trades the eggs for pork from another neighbor with there is no Getrich Quick Atti tude on the part of the but Kropinski believes that within a few years they will have it we poles Are used to working he sometimes for nothing Here we have something to work land that will before the Kropinski had a tiny piece of land on the outskirts of which produced scarcely enough to meet his own table de fifteen acres of Good wheat such As he now Are capable of bringing in a yearly Revenue of some six Hundred thousand zlotys Nomin ally six thousand dollars at present High Grain not All returned photographs Dps Are Many Are Small skilled professional men or government offi but most of them choose to Settle in the West where opportunities for rebuilding a shattered life Are greater than elsewhere in what were once German Silesia and Pomerania Are polish lands of of like the thousands of americans who surged Westward in covered wagons during the last five million poles have migrated to their country Western the Fertile soil of Silesia and in homesteads of fifteen to fifty five tempts Many Farmers and would be opportunities for Manning and reorganizing former German industries and exploiting the districts natural n establish ing Small setting up professional life ans and reopening the schools and universities have additional the term borrowed from eng is used freely to describe these five million new by the author settlers and draw a parallel Between them and their american counterparts of nearly a Century the polish How is never referred to As new but As reconquered it has belonged to Poland from time to time since the Middle the new capital of the pc ish i West is called Breslau by the Here the Ger mans fought to the last holding out against the russians until three Days after be sixty per cent of the City was destroyed in those last bitter in the space of two wroclaw has become As completely polish As any City of 4he Interior at the every Effort has been made to stamp out any vestiges of the former Ger Man the shops Bear new polish Adolf Hitler Strasse has been renamed Ukia Adama Mic de in Honor of a nineteenth Cen Tury polish poet Ulica Marshalka Stalina is the former Matthias As in most of the polish West wroclaw population of two Hundred thousand consists largely of former Twenty to thirty thousand poles
