[Official International Red Cross Records Released](httpi.imgur.comHo2Vapy.jpg)

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The International Red Cross published their analysis in a three volume Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War published in Geneva in 1948.  This analysis expanded findings of two previous publications Sur L'activite' du CICR en faveur des civils detencus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946) and Inter Arma Caritas The Work of the ICRF during the Second World War (Geneva, 1947). 

In 1929 the International Red Cross interviewed prisoners in the German camps.  They were not allowed to interview prisoners in the Russian camps which were far more harsh.  The German camps held both political prisoners (Schutzhaflinge) and those convicted of crimes.  The Germans allowed the Red Cross to distribute food, medicine and clothing to the prisoners.  Grateful prisoners sent letters of thanks from Dachau, Buchenwalk, Sangerhausen, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Flossenburg, Landsberg-am-Lech, Fibha, Ravensbruck, Hamburg-Neuengamme, Mauthausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and others.  The principal recipients were Belgians, Dutch, French, Greeks, Italians, Norwegians, Poles and stateless Jews (Vol. III, p. 83). 

Regarding Theresienstadt, the Red Cross said, where there were about 40,000 Jews deported from various countries, was a relatively privileged ghetto (Vol. III, p. 75).  The Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and was governed by special conditions ... From information gathered by the Commmee, this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich ... These men wished to give the Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy ... two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6, 1945. They confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit (Vol. I, p. 642).

The ICRC also had praise for the regime of Ion Antonescu of Fascist Rumania where the Committee was able to extend special relief to 183,000 Rumanian Jews until the time of the Soviet occupation. The aid then ceased and the ICRC complained bitterly that it never succeeded in sending anything whatsoever to Russia (Vol. II, p. 62). The same situation applied to many of the German camps after their liberation by
the Russians. The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees were evacuated westward. But the efforts of the Red Cross to send relief to internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were futile.  However. food parcels continued to be sent to former Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald and Oranienburg.

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