Eastern Germany has been one gigantic slave camp with millions of Germans working under conditions that add up to virtual peonage. Here we find a continuing situation that is practically without precedent in world history. Over a period of 13 years. more than 10 percent of the population of East Germany have become refugees and voluntary exiles despite the efforts of tens of thousands of Soviet troops to keep them prisoners behind the Iron Curtain. More than 2 million people of East Germany have fled to the West in the past 13 years. And. despite the fact that today it is a capital offense. punishable by death. for any person in East Germany to aid a refugee with technical or mechanical skill to escape to the West. there are still 1.500 East Germans coming across the border to freedom in the West every week. Just think Of It. after all these years. the East Germans are escaping from this Soviet slavelabor camp at the rate of more than 75.000 a year. Place this stark. brutal fact alongside of Khrushchevs boasts of the wonderful conditions and living standards behind the Iron Curtain.
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