The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-26
One In Ten OF Wars Dps Prefer
Camps In Germany To Life In USSR

BY MEL MOST
Associated Press Staff
Correspondent
PARIS March rs IN Almost
1000, 900 survivors have been re-
corded Of the non complaints
sucked into. Germany and strand
ed there by Hitler's whirlpool Of
total. war.
One in every ten Of these has
remained, preferriag to live in
camps with the privacy Of an an
hill, rather. than plunge into the
new tide of Russia's advance from
the East.
The count Of Nazi-uproo,ed hui
mainly, made by the central dis
placed persons office of the Unit
ed Nations Reconstruction and
Rehabilitation administration, is
only a small fraction o the total.
1t does not include:
Those who died; those who
merely lost their homes; Germans
and "Volksdeutsche" recalled
from Oh planted, in other coun-
tries; combatants, including allied
prisoners Of war, Axis satellite
troops and conscripts from annex
ed territories; laborers shifted
within or to countries outside Ger.
many to- work on defense prof.
ects, or to the Russian and Polish
occupied portion Of Germany;
those who somehow got out OF
were reshifted out before the
wars end by the allied armies or
their. own means before UNRRA
took over; those who took no
UNRRA aid and would not with an
exception made for a small num-
Der Of jews live inside UNRRA
camps. j..
High Total
The minor fraction left over in
Western Germany. when all. these
were ~~subtracted, were displaced
persons. And the count Of this
minor fraction incredibly totals g.
1893, 731. 49,,
OF these, 679,3 $50 still remain, all
but a few thousand Of them from
countries behind the high : water
mark OF the Russian-Slav adj
vance. There are 262, $50 Poles,
l77,567 Bats. 40, $50 Jews from
Eastern Europe, and 53,657 ''ot
undetermined nationality - an
UNRRA %euphemism for, Ukraini-
ans who. refuse; to acknowledge
Soviet citizenship.
CAS- "Ukrainians" they would be
subject to compulsory repatriation
demanded by Russia for. Soviet
nationals since UNRRA recog-
nizes Ukraine as part OF the So
Wet Union. UNRRA does not rec
ognize the USSR's incorporation
IT the Baltic ~states).
The rest are largely from other
Eastern European regions, mclud-
ing Yugoslavs, Czechs ever l..
1875 Germans from the Russian
zone who are in the French zone,
where the French insisted on list
ing them as. DPS because they
couldn't send them back.
Only 1924 are from outside the
limits Of the Russian advance
the largest group being 1922
Turks, followed by 1,006 BRAZIL
ans and $40 claiming United
States citizenship, down to one
Afghan awaiting screening in the
British zone. -
More than half Of the DPS in
Germany = 374, liz are in the
American zone, with 269, 9o7 in the.
British zone and only 81, 1868 under
the French. These figures do not,
however, tell the whole story. for.
outside Of fewer than $4,000 in
British military centers, they are
not supported by their respective
occupation authorities but by
UNRRA, with the lions snare OF
its expenses coming from Ameri-
can taxpayers.
At StaddstiI.
Repatriations are virtually at a
standstill. A study of:the 6, 1901 36
who had been. repatriated by the
beginning Of last month (most Of
them long ago. shows that 2,799,-
704 had little choice in the mat
ter-2,042,672 being Russians and
the rest enemy aliens. Another g.
l77,983 were. not from Eastern Eu-
rope, so that only !. 142, 664 seems
to have returned there without
compulsion.
The Balts' have led in standing
pat-on1y -2,119 have gone home
against the 1T, 567 who preferred
UNRRA camp existence. But 49,
1927 Poles went home against 262,-
$40 who remain, although the
homeward flow,i which stood at
127, 308 for the month of october,
1945, dwindled to "a new low Of
1882 in January this year.
Emigration and r~esetIement
has worked out even worse-not
because Of DIP unwillingness, but
other countries reluctance to take
them. Only 11,242 were taken in
by countries other than their own,
8,4e0 by the United States, 1850
by the United Kingdom, 76s by
Palestine and 80 scattered else
where.
Vast Manpower
There is a vast store OF DIP
m:anpower waiting for labor-short
o. farmer-short countries, but no.
body seems anxious to tap it. Per-
haps Germany. itself will get it..
The French now are proposing
that DPS be allowed to settle
where they e
Some authorities now feel it
was a mistake ever to have sep
arated the DPS as such from the
rest OF Germany's population sex-
cept in transient centers only
for those who wanted repatriation.
They say that everybody from
concentration or slave labor
camps - German, Jew and DIP
alike-should have gotten UNRRA