GESTAPO TORTURE
HORROR CHAMBER IN ROME
Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, June 7. Romans battered down the doors of the notorious Gestapo prison on the Via Tasso as soon as the last German left the city, says the Daily Mail Rome correspondent. Two hundred starving men and women, packed into 24 tiny "black hole of Calcutta" cells, were released. The correspondent examined the brick torture chamber, 12 feet by 5 feet in which so many Italians were killed in the last eight months.
Over the coffins at the entrance was a socket from which a 1000-candle-power lamp used to blaze into the v eyes of the tortured victims whom the Gestapo questioned. Prisoners were strung up. by wire from an iron bar, by the feet or neck and battered against the walls until they talked. The floor and the plaster on either side were daubed with blood. Prisoners had scratched last messages on the walls with thei- fin' /er-nails.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1944, Page 6
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