4 Die dort noch im Jahre 1946 herrschenden furchtbaren Zustände sind der Weltöffentlichkeit durch einen Bericht des britischen Parlamentsabgeordneten R. Stokes, der auf einer Informationsreise durch die ČSR das Lager besichtigte, bekannt geworden. Stokes, dessen Bericht im „Manchester Guardian” am 10. Oktober 1946 (und danach noch in anderen englischen Zeitungen) veröffentlicht wurde, schildert die in Hagibor herrschenden Zustände wie folgt:
„I have before me as I write a week's menu for this camp [Hagibor]. Every single day the same: breakfast — black coffee and bread; dinner — vegetable soup; supper — black coffee and bread. The bread issued every evening amounts to half a pound per person and any left over from supper may be eaten in the morning! The camp kitchen for 700 people consisted of a pokey room 12 ft. X 12 ft. in the cellar of a building. I wondered why so small until I realised that of course there isn't anything to cook! A couple of hol water urns and two old women grating carrots for the midday soup was the total equipment. On the 3rd September there were 912 people in the camp and the total food issued was:| 500 lbs. of bread. | 30 lbs. of coffee. |
| 750 lbs. of potatoes. | 18 lbs. of butter and margarine mixed. |
| 80 lbs. of sugar. | 70 lbs. of green vegetables. |
If you add the potatoes and bread together it works out at 1½ Ibs. per Person, l—3 of an ounce of butter or margarine, ¾ of an ounce of sugar and ¾ of an ounce of green vegetables. No wonder therefore that they submit to slave employment where outside the camp the employer must give food to get any work out of them at all! This explains also why the camp was nearly empty on my first visit — all but the old and aged and a number of socalled ,dan-
gerous persons' who where segrated in a separate compound not being out at work. Work but no payThe method of slave selection I witnessed when I turned up two days later at 5.30 a. m. — somewhat to the surprise of the camp officials! About 6 a. m. the employers started to arrive in cars and lorries to select and transport their slaves for the day. They were shown into the anteroom of one of the large huts which I had noticed the previous day was completely empty. Three or four hundred siaves were then let in from the camp, and the visitors made their selection, giving a receipt for the persons carried off; returning them at the end of the day.
I mingled freely amongst employers and slaves and was told that those who showed any unwillingness to go out to work were soundly beaten up — this being dispensed with in honour of my visit. The slaves receive no pay. I had noticed on my previous visit the special compound tho which reference had already been made, and that few, if any persons during the whole three hours of my visit on a fine sunny day, seemed to move outside the hut. This time I asked to see it and fouud it about full. All the înmates save for a bare dozen were lying rolled up in their bunks, presumably starving to death. These are ‚dangerous men' — as such they may not go out to work; if they don't go out to work they only get camp food — a halfpound of bread a day and black coffee will not keep body and soul together and admit of movement. I would put their ration as 750 calories a day, which is below the Belsen level. The only men on their feet besides the hut leader where a dozen young Jews from Poland, who had been put in two days before for not following the daily trek originated by the Russians, who are ejecting all the Jews from their territory into Poland, and they then pass on at the rate of about 1000 a day into Czechoslovakia and away to the Mediteranean. It is significant that for the most pari these are young men and healthy, and the women pregnant, but that belongs to a different story, and I only mention it here to illustrate the appalling mixup that prevails in an otherwise beautiful country.”