GERMANY: Little Siberia

For the past four years the world has known that the Russians are mining uranium in Eastern Germany. Frightened workers who managed to escape from the mines into Germany's Western zones have told bits & pieces of the story. Last week

British occupation authorities in Germany released a detailed, 5,000-word report on the Reds' "little Siberia" in Eastern Germany, where 300,000 men & women work day and night to produce uranium "for the sole benefit of the Russian war machine."*

The entire area—which includes the ore-heavy Erzgebirge and Harz Mountains, and stretches roughly from the Czech frontier across Thuringia to the...