European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Kisi i gees Jam Berlin Camps  _ of of from Page  factory was transformed into Row Sof hails and 330 rooms a our of the r o o in s Are Large Yenpu Tii to handle 120 persons each. Another. Four hold to. Seventy five per cent hol s-28 persons a v a " four thousand persons Are fed in one hour from a single huge Kitchen each floor holds 640-750 persons and has Aleader and three nurses. Meals Are Given to the floor leaders who in turn distribute. Them to refugees. Food is eaten in the refugee s own limited space in his own dormitory. Each floor  men s washroom and women s washroom. Warm water can be obtained twice a Day from the Kitchen but there s not nearly enough to go around so. Bathing opportunities Are. Limited. Theodor in the dormitories where the win Dows were., sealed against the coldest february in1 i2 years was anything but pleasant. Until recently Only 450-600 refugees had been flown out per Day. The number now has been stepped up to 1,000, per Day. Refugees Are flown out by the established commercial airlines. A indications Are however that the refugee exodus still May  recent communist attempts to halt it. One Camp director said he expected a surge out of East Berlin the moment it seems certain " that hard and fast barriers Between. East and West Berlin Are go Iii up. There Are about 850,000 persons Jin a Easterlin. At first the communists seemed Happy to see the refugees go. Many were old pensioners considered not to be productive but Hen the soviet zone authorities got serious about recruiting an army youth started to Jlee. Then Farmers unable to meet stiff quotas and not wanting to los their own land in cooperatives gave up and started flocking West. An anti semitic drive drove jews out. ". V " there Are indications that the Easi zone is hard hit by the emigration. Food and ". Coal supplies Are Jow. There were Hof armers left to figh t the Elbe River floods. At first communist leaders called the refugees criminals. There Are no sighs that any refugees have taker advantage of the communist invitation to return. " Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has asked the East germans to . Their Homes and endure peonage under the reds unless it becomes completely impossible and their lives Are in danger. Adenauer fears that if the germans leave the communists will Settle East Germany with non germans perhaps asiatics a but the refugee problem has. Be ii Lostin a mass of statistics. One loses r sight of the. Fact that the i200-2,500 refugees daily Are really that Many suffering Midi i dials rather than numbers on a Chart take the Case of the Blue suited yellow " 24-year-old musician who & fled from Schwerin. Current conditions interrupted his studies and when he wanted. Toi continue them he was told to join the Volo. He did and became a member of i the band. He was ordered not to visit friends Iberlin after he reported Back to comrades that conditions in West Berlin were Bette than in East Germany. He was summoned by secret agents to face charges of Sabo Tage but got away before he was arrested by telling the guard at the Gate that he had to leave for a while to get his clarinet repaired then there was the Short round faced Middle a ged Man who red a Dairy and / it bar restaurant in Leipzig. City official walked in on him one Day and said he owed 5,500 Marks tax. He offered to Settle for100 Marks he had but they were not satisfied he was at the Bai when he saw them arrest his wife Iri the Dairy so he fled. V who wants to run a business anyway where you can t Supply your customers. A he asked. We gave sausage for butter coupons and Only children up to shears old get real milk. All the others got Only skim Vin Inkin november there was no milk at All and his orders for cereals Beans flour and Rio does remained unfilled. On an order for 220 pounds of marmalade he received Only five court ds., Tkv he a has a. Daughter in West Germany v Andi h pipes with a Little help to Start business. Then there s the Farmer who had Only five cows five horses 20 pigs and 150. Chickens. The government set his deliver quota for the. First three months of this year .-at12,200 pounds of pork 1,000 Pipii Hdson milk and beef and 2,700.  he was to be  lagging. He fled with his wife and children. They could t Call us exploiters. Of labor he said. We did All our own work and did t hire labor. But there was a Rule of thumb and that was  he had a big piece of property. And so he had to go. How can i fulfil the quota he said he asked them. The government said to get artificial fertilizer. The Bank told him he could get no credit that it would Cost 20 pigs for the  say if i pay pigs How can t meet the pork quota the Bank does t care. And All the tame the government still owes for the Straw i sold it in december and won pay it s riot Only me. Pm the fifth Farmer in a Village of "150 to leave and one of the others was the mayor.". This then is the story7 of tragedy whose magnitude increases each  vials in West berm Are unable Bah tick Pate the number who will ask Asylum on Stoy Giyen Day but Early this month Morea Wal. I n a Junuie 24-hour period a St German Chancellor to Orst Adenauer second from left listens to � refugee his plight As he watches a boil screen one of thousands fleeing communist East it Rex a a Young East German couple safely in West Berlin study a map of West Germany a they make plans for their of stare free from red oppression. Clothes far needy refugee children Are issued at special centers. Most who escape the increasingly vigilant bled police leave possessions behind. A forty muh itself in ring Long hours in a Berlin Refue Camp by witching Bis Mother Patch tee few items of dotting Mab Eddler the family was Able to carry in its flight Lucky refugees their status recognized Are flown to West Germany an Many will go on to other free nations to nuke new lives for themselves. The stars and stripes