Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1945, Cairo, Egypt 8 people eat the april 1945 j Eisenhower Hal Wwlfe of a has been and Nis Torya r Allied relieving so Black a re week my Lonoff ago As Aptil 41 armoured i entered the Nai Camp f april after the fall of Gotham eight Miles to the North found the courtyard the bodies of belgian and French slave according to survivors because they were too weak eighty survived Ohr drug those survivors said that to prisoners had been killed there by the toeing slain before the americans 80 survive a Haft escaped death Enwald once was a Leafy but now the df4ftffiitift ashes were piled beside crematoriums near the naked bodies of inmates wh0 hiding in the reported an average of died mainly from shoot e nazi system was to feed prisoners a crust of bread a work them on tunnelling until they were too weak to then exterminate them and replace them with another 150 prisoners but Ohr drug was Only a pre at the yanks found a factory during last 19 months Over of workers died of exhaustion and most of these were they were employed in making a vast underground factory for the Only a few were left of the normally work ing in the vast underground fac tories these were so weak from starvation and exhaustion that they could barely croak their names and reporters found it impossible to interview Belsen and Buchenwald at the British Lith a Mored division found thousands either dead or hopelessly when one observer noticed that almost All bodies had a curious wound in the he asked about it and was told dont you workers at another even More tem Fele this was Between a Tober 1942 and last Janu Laryy the nazi sadists had murder Dover stalag the British found their yellow country soldiers and t in near hopeless emaciation through beating and these were prisoners of War and supposedly protected by the Geneva v yank prisoners this week the american 90th division liberating 47 american prisoners of a suf Fering from acute overwork and frequent beatings by the nazis who had worked them in a Rock fifteen of the 47 were wasted away to Little More than living All the men were crawling with lice some still bore livid welts and infected sores from the beatings by German civilian and military the freed yanks said that Many of their comrades died of disease and maltreatment while they slaved in the Quarry they estimated that put of 308 men Ori tinally Only 142 Drunken Heads to show the German people that this is riot Allied propaganda but terrible Eisenhower or dered that civilians in captured towns bib made to see the Caamal houses for in groups of 10q they toured the they were escorted everywhere by they saw the research laboratories in which doctors had experimented new serums using prisoners As pathological Guinea with fatal results in 90 of the they saw the unburied heaped in piles or scattered about the they saw Heads that had been removed from murdered prisoners and shrunken by a process like that used by the aboriginal in Diana of they heard a survivor of an incinerator horror toil How he had kept himself alive in the smoke Laden air by placing his Mouth at a Hole in the Wall to they saw the Well nou husky women of the Belsen prison who had delighted in the most inhuman and depraved of Tor some of the German visitors were White faced and shocked some fainted others refused to believe what their eyes showed them and these protested that no German would be capable of committing such president and Congress voice country outrage tin prime minister Churchill and marshal Stalin have issued a joint warning to the German High com Mand and germans in Autho Rity that they will be held individually responsible for the safety of All Allied prisoners of War Anil foreign workers in their any declared the big guilty of Mal treating or allowing any Allied prisoner of internee or deported citizen to be maltreated whether in the Battle on lines of communications in prison or elsewhere will be ruthlessly Pur sued and brought to own will Hammer at Story this was but one development in the sense of outrage that has swept this Congress has sent a group from both houses to gather Date for a report on the recently discovered nazi the invitation was issued through Marshall by who made a similar request of the British Par the supreme commander also included newspaper and Magazine editors in his the office of War information was Quick to take a firm attitude on what it will director Elmer Davis said that facts of the atrocities in the nazi concentration Camps will be hammered into the German people for a Long time to they will read see it in hear about it on the the reeducation of the Ger mans begins Davis conclude the revelation of these horrors Marks a first and important these bodies of German prisoners a tire found in a shed at naked and covered with All Boro of brutality some were shot through the head a few hours the americans this is one of the communal pits which hold at where British troops discovered dying and starving women and even now they Are like flies of Over toil Louisiana has proposed a congressional commission to catalogue specific instances and gos sett of Texas and flood of have made similar barbarism at its worst eight in England at the time Eisenhower made his have already seen the these included Gordon Canfield Carter Earl Albert Eugene Marion Bennet and Francis this is barbarism at its Canfield and it is a sad commentary on Eisenhower has presented proof of the this bears out everything he or anyone else has the state and War departments hav issued a joint statement a Remini the German governments offer to leave All prisoners of War in their present Camps As the Allied armies according to latest the nazis still hold Between about american Allied have overrun 47 of 7s prison Camps and hospitals were known to be Geneva Rule stands suggestions that Geneva Conven Tion rulings regarding feeding of prisoners be broken on our part Havo been so far rejected on the grounds that the germans still hold Many Allied accompanying the congressmen on their inspection of the atrocities Are 16 representatives of leading american newspapers and Maga the newsmen were hastily assembled for the
