European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse To brought in As slave labor after re fall of Warsaw and have stayed j work in the cites newly rebuilt factories As free approximately half of the cites population is from the Eastern pan of Poland which was ceded to Russia by the terms of the Potsdam Lwow int ours anymore these poles from beyond the Curzon line sing in wroclaw once Poland third largest now rus is memorialized in this new polish song which tells How the cites one time residents headed West to build a new Lwow in refugees from the East have been Given special consideration in Job placement and allocation of Homes to compensate for their and Long term Loans have been extended to help them Bronislaw socialist editor of one of wroclaw two daily was one lows Foremost newspapermen be fore the wroclaw philharmonic Heaters and univer sity Are largely staffed by former Lwow rebuilding in wroclaw is proceed ing almost As rapidly As in eighty per cent of the factories have been repaired and Are in Lull opera fifty five per cent of the cites chemical Industry was destroyed but forty one of the factories have Al ready been the nearby Coal once so vital to the German were left in a state of but Coal production has now risen to far above prewar to Day these lands contain the bulk of Poland Industrial strength and enough resources to change Poland from an agricultural into an Industrial Only a handful of the former six Hundred thousand German population remains in the City and the last of these Are expected to be out by the end of the almost daily Small caravans of Laden with household wend their Way through the City to the Railroad station for Transfer to they in comparative Comfort in Box cars or third class carriages in contrast to the forced marches the germans arranged for the poles not Loo Many years polish authorities Supply rations to these exp Lees to last ten to twelve if you ask a wroclaw citizen what has been done for the former hell probably steer you into the nearest Coffee House and Tell you a Story something like the following before the War he was a welder and lived in he was taken into Ger Many in the Spring of 2944 As a forced repatriated in october of he had married a Krakow girl while in an Urra Camp and though they could have gone Back to the Pioneer idea appealed to both him and his today he works at the huge i Egielski factory on the outskirts of the City which is manufacturing Loco freight cars and there Are hundreds of other onetime Dps like himself at the work ing on any one of the plants three eight hour they Are paid an average of seven thousand zlotys per not including bonuses for overtime and he is entitled to a category i ration Given to workers in essential which allows him to buy necessities at special Low he and his wife have a comfortable three room apartment in a rebuilt housing unit near to the fac in the government gave his wife a Small grocery store to variations of this Story Are heard throughout the City and its the bartender at the wroclaw largest spent two years working at the Spandau Arma ment factory outside Berlin As slave he is Back tending bar just As he did in Warsaw several years be reunited with his wife and the is now attending the University of along with eight thousand other students from All Over tuition is he and the cites business men and restaurants pledge a meal a Day for the nearly half the students Are women and special dormitories have been built for them during the last Tell he is it really True there Are still poles in Germany like most of the persons who returned he cant under stand How a pole could remain in the land of the in spite of rumours of pogroms there is no evidence of at a textile factory outside proc for Twenty per cent of the workers Are come from every Section of throughout the District of lower Silesia an estimated fifty to seventy thousand Are living and not so much in Trade and but in mining and several thousand had been deported As slave labor by the germans to work in paper and Timber Mills and textile following their liberation by russian and polish troops Many whose families had been killed remained and in addition some fifty thou Sand jews have returned to Poland from where they fled when the germans overran the they Are Given the highest priority on jobs and housing to stifle rumours of anti they Are encouraged to resettle in the where the government believes their Effort and ability Are urgently government officials say that had Poland not lost her Large jewish the Job of rebuilding would be infinitely in Rych in lower nearly half of the cites Twenty thousand inhabitants Are while the City of Wal Burzych has eighteen continued on Page 21 capital of the new polish was badly damaged during the the town is being rebuilt rapidly by Gebman exp Ellees plod their weary Way along the roads around once their own on their Way to occupied burned out russian tank polish Roadside contrasts with place jul fought Over bitterly in last months of the Rural life is livestock and farm machinery Are but peasant women work hard to build new life in polish
