From France the following deportations of persons for political and
racial reasons took place—each of which consisted of from 1,500 to
2,500 deportees:
1940 ... 3 Transports
1941 ... 14 Transports
1942 ... 104 Transports
1943 ... 257 Transports
1944 ... 326 Transports
Such deportees were subjected to the most barbarous conditions of
overcrowding; they were provided with wholly insufficient clothing and
were given little or no food for several days.
The conditions of transport were such that many deportees died in the
course of the journey, for example:
In one of the wagons of the train which left Compiègne for Buchenwald,
on 17 September 1943, 80 men died out of 130;
On 4 June 1944, 484 bodies were taken out of the train at Sarrebourg;
In a train which left Compiègne on 2 July 1944 for Dachau, more than 600
dead were found on arrival, i. e. one-third of the total number;
In a train which left Compiègne on 16 January 1944 for Buchenwald, more
than 100 men were confined in each wagon, the dead and the wounded being
heaped in the last wagon during the journey;
In April 1945, of 12,000 internees evacuated from Buchenwald, 4,000 only
were still alive when the marching column arrived near Regensburg.
During the German occupation of Denmark, 5,200 Danish subjects were
deported to Germany and there imprisoned in concentration camps and
other places.
In 1942 and thereafter 6,000 nationals of Luxembourg were deported from
their country under deplorable conditions as a result of which many of
them perished.
From Belgium between 1940 and 1944 at least 190,000 civilians were
deported to Germany and used as slave labor. Such deportees were
subjected to ill-treatment and many of them were compelled to work in
armament factories.
From Holland, between 1940 and 1944, nearly half a million civilians
were deported to Germany and to other occupied countries.