Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Finland Sweden Denmark Netherlands Germany Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary 750.000 folks 104.000 balts 110.000 Simms 1,400 czechs 1,000 norwegians 2,100,000 french100,000 balts 2,400.000 Polis. 45,000 hungarians 2,000,000 russians 32,000 Luxembourg cars 745.000 czechs 25.000 bulgarians 400.000 italians 21,000 Danis 500.000 belgians 14,000 rumanian 300.000 dutch 12,000 greeks 300.000 yugoslavs 4,000 norwegians 250.000 italians i 145.000 spaniards t 75.000 poles 70.000 russians 40.000 dutch 24.000 belgians 25.000 yugoslavs 4,000 czech monday May 28, 1945 the stars and stripes Page 5 55.000 germans 35.000 belgians 15.400 czechs i 15.000 0utch �,000 norwegians 3,500 French 75.000 unspecified Norway 30,000 russians 123,000 germans 7.000 czechs 7.000 poles # 4.000 Danes 5.000 yugoslav 4.000 dutch 3.000 French 3,000. Balts a Suann egg go 55.000 yugoslavs 25.000 germans 13.000 belgians 3,000 greeks 2,400 czechs 130.000 bulgarians Kph we 174.000 Tau ans i 17,000 hungarians a it of �17,000 romanians psf a in Wui i 1-. Or a a 25,000 goes 1 % i >0.000 it Pous i Quot a v n a new features Miles 30,000 bulgarians 14,000 italians 1.000 russians 1.000 yugoslavs �20,000 unspecified. ? estimates of the number of displaced persons and their routes Home Are Brrown in the map. By Paul Green stars and stripes staff writer with 15th army May 27-r two trains chugging out of opposite ends of the Rhineland yesterday carried almost 3,000 russian nationals on their Way Hom. They Werd among the first to be sent Back in the Exchange for Western european in russian occupied Germany. Prom Wesel in the Ruhr 1,480. Russians mostly War prisoners pulled out for the two Day trip to Magdeburg on the Elbe. They were preceded by 1,500 who left Hamburg in the Saar in route to Leipzig Magdeburg and Leipzig will to staging areas through which russian displaced persons will be tunnelled at an expected rate of 2,000 Dally from each Camp. This army has 200.000 soviet in its Arefus. 15 woman passengers the a Hammer and sickle special at Wesel was a colourful caravan of 58 cars All passengers were men except for 15 women who were captured while fighting with guerrilla units. Prom Early morning the russians poured out of Camp toward the train with their meager possessions on their backs or in wheelbarrows and baby carriages. Many carried chairs and benches for use in the cars. A a they decorated the freight cars with leaves and Flowers. Bach cards commander distributed two Days of a dry rations. A. 1 International project the homeward bound russians wore strange assortments of doth a ing ranging from tattered civilian garb to mixtures of russian Gen Man and Allied uniforms. The affair was truly International. It had been arranged by a British military government detachment run by a soot and a Canadian and a Russia speaking czech Liaison officer. It was supervised by the us. 17th airborne div., which provided Security guards for the trip. Four yanks of the military railway service staffed the train which included an american locomotive and cars from Germany prance Belgium and Holland. Rations were British and american. As the train puffed East from each car came music of mandolins Balalaika and violins. The russian lifted their voices in Jolly red army tunes. Mournful Folk songs Rose on the air too. These people were on their Way Home. Fortunate or unfortunate this russian slave labourer liberated at Dortmund has tuberculosis probably the result of his confinement in filth and of malnutrition. Thousands died but survivors face hardship yet. German8 too have been di8placeo by War. These civilians rounded up by the seventh army make a sight now familiar All Over Europe with Carta baby buggies and wheelbarrows piled High with whatever goods they can move. Russians boarding the train at Wesel formed a similar procession. French and belgians moving West from the Reich have presented a like spectacle. The caravans will continue for weeks and months. army signal corps photog
