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- page four =< the corresponding shafts are surrounded by barbed wire and heavily guardede ; While the supervision of tie barracks is in the hands of Czech police, the highest direction of the pits, the laboratories and the planning and statistical offides are exclusively in Russian handse In vier of the strategic importance of the uranium production, no satellites ean be mtrusted with its exclust&¥e control. Youth camps. Youthful labor forces are recruited on "voluntary" basis, mostly smong studentse a recent order has passed to all schools from the Ministry of Education. Responsibility is places on sthool directions and teachers to bring 10.000 boys, between 14 and 18 years of age, to ‘volunteer enthusiastically" for work camps, before vacations starte These youngsters are employed in agriculture and mines; whereever labor force is magt needed. a Women's camps. A report receifed from Slovakia speaks of the Liquidation of all rem&iining convents. Up to now, nuns had still been left in hospital work, as there vas difficulty to replace tiem. simultaneously however e great propaganda was made among girls to enlist in emergency nurses? training courses. The number of graduates is now judged sufficient so that Sisters are released from hospital duties. voctors and patients complain of the poor care given by the new, inexperienced nurses; but their comp aints are not being considered. ‘ithe Sisters are taken first into group confinenment .ma from there placed into forced labor units. in the sane way as ali teaching, euucating and contemplative huns xinewxk9a9; heve be n forced to so since 1950, the groups released from hospital service have nw also to work in agriculture and ingustrye they are detained in special nuns’ comps or more often in general women's camps and from there go in groups for the day into the fields or near-by factoriese Im certain instances of stricter confinam the factory is located inside the camp and the work is exclusively done by inmates. This is frequently the case in textile productions
