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Show Fix Prisoners in Reich, 3,500,000 Writer Tours Camps, Finds Health Generally Good; Officers in Castle. FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, GERMANY. Scattered throughout Germany, in open-air tent camps or squat concrete barracks, are some 3,500,000 prisoners of war, the remains re-mains of the French territorial and colonial armies, the Polish troops vanquished a year ago, and the British Brit-ish expeditionary forces which escaped es-caped annihilation at Dunkerque. Soldiers, sailors, fliers black, white and yellow, from all quarters of the globe, are incarcerated in Germany, some of them working in farm or field, some even in factories, but most of them idle, awaiting the end of the war and freedom. In a medieval castle towering on a mountainside above a valley in the Hessian hills are 175 British officers of-ficers and 39 non-coms and orderlies. order-lies. In a near-by tent city are 10,000 soldiers, French colonials and j sian hills across the roof tops of the little town below, they seem to have a feeling of freedom, although the watchful sentries standing on drawbridge draw-bridge and parapet keep them under un-der careful guard. Beyond the drawbridge the only part of the castle protected by barbed wire prisoners were walking walk-ing about in the square courtyard. One of them, Squadron Leader S. S. Murray of the Royal Air force, acted as guide through the castle. The prisoners sleep on cots, some placed shipboard fashion one above the other. Rugs serve as covers, but all rooms are painstakingly clean and neat. The prisoners hare showers, but no bathtubs. Life Is Quiet. Life at the castle is usually quiet. There are seldom any incidents calling call-ing for punishments such as arrest or withdrawal of the smoking privileges priv-ileges or canceling of the weekly walks. According to the German commander, the behavior of the prisoners is generally very good. Their state of health perhaps in part because of the fine mountain air is excellent. The only complaint the prisoners have to make is of the scarcity of cigarettes and tobacco. Entirely different is the open air tent camp, also in the Hessian hills, which this writer visited shortly after aft-er leaving the mountain castle. Ten thousand prisoners are housed here in 28 huge tents, each tent housing some 300 to 350 men. The men kept here get three meals a day. The prisoners, both white and colored, col-ored, told this writer that the food was just sufficient, and that generally gen-erally speaking they had no complaints com-plaints regarding their treatment regulars and a number of Poles. In a workers' camp in Thuringia are 100 Scotsmen who work on farms near-by. In Hesse-Nassau is a German Ger-man military hospital where sick prisoners of war are tended. These four places were visited by a New York Times writer recently in a five-day trip on invitation of the German high command. The experience expe-rience of these visits furnished a graphic picture of life in a German prison camp as it is lived by captured cap-tured officers and men of the enemy en-emy armed forces. Have Flower Garden. The prison wall surrounding 175 British officers in the ancient Hes- sian castle are thick and high, and a deep, dry moat contributes further fur-ther to making escape well nigh impossible. im-possible. On the outer ramparts surrounding sur-rounding the moat sentries pace by day and night with bayoneted rifles. The only entrance to the castle is a huge old drawbridge guarded by a massive belfry. Just outside the heavily armed drawbridge is a little garden. Here the senior British officers are permitted per-mitted to grow flowers and vege-tables-r-a favorite pastime of many of them. Outside the castle walls, with a sweeping view of the Hes- |