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Volume #12 - 100. | |
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CHAPTER II PEACE SETTLEMENT IN EUROPE | |
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PART
2 GERMANY | |
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SECTION
E PRISONERS OF WAR IN CANADA | |
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PCO/ W-35-2 |
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Head, Information Division, to Secretary of the Cabinet | |
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[Ottawa,],
January 5th, 1946 | |
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REPATRIATION OF GERMAN PS.O.W. | |
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With reference to the prospective repatriation of German prisoners of war, it is suggested that the order in which they should be returned should be as follows: (1) White Other Ranks in base camps; (2) Grey and dark grey Other Ranks in base camps; (3) Black Other Ranks in base camps; (4) It is requested by the War Office in telegram No. 25, January 3,† from the High Commissioner in the United Kingdom that "Where possible ardent Nazis should be grouped together and that these groups should be kept separate from other prisoners of war." (5) Officers; (6) Working prisoners of war, so far as possible, in the order of white, grey and black. The principle of returning prisoners in this order of their ideology is, I understand, approved by the Army authorities and is the order desired by the War Office and the Department of External Affairs. This order would also allow the immediate clearance and closing of a number of white and grey camps. It would facilitate the documentation of the prisoners of war which it is very important for the United Kingdom authorities to have, and, perhaps a secondary point, it would, in the view of PWC,' have a better psychological effect than the reverse order. It will be observed that it would not interfere in any way with the employment of the prisoners of war now working. T. W. L. M[ACDERMOT] | |
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