“140,000 Peasants Leave Black Sea by Nazi Order.”
More than 1,000 villages, decendants of Germans who had held the land since the 17th century [when the Tsars invited Germans in to farm border areas]. I wonder how many died during the “week-long, 1600-mile trek across ice and snow.”
“Most of the refugees would be employed in war factories,” whether they like it or not.
I barely glanced at that item when I stuck it in to fill out page 10. Now that you mention it, that is like 3 times the population of my home town here in California being forced to pull up stakes and move off to a murky fate at a remote location. An event that in "normal" times would generate front-page banner headlines is reduced in "interesting" times to a filler item.