WOMEN DROWNED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 237, 6 October 1945, Page 5

WOMEN DROWNED

BELSEN ATROCITIES

Irma Grese Confesses To Crimes N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 5. A Czech girl, Elizabeth Herbst, in an affidavit read at the Belsen atrocity trial to-day, accused Hilde Lobauer, one of the women defendants, of drowning women in a ditch. Elizabeth Herbst said she saw a ditch in which there were a number of dead bodies, while between 10 and 20 more women were struggling in the water and crying out desperately for help. Lobauer thrust in a long nole, pulled a woman halfway out of the water, and then thrust her under the surface. Lobauer and the other guards were highly amused. Lobauer did the same thing to other women. Other witnesses said that Stanislawa Staroska, a Polish woman who was placed in charge of the prisoners, "was a beast in a human body." She ill-treated little children the same way as adults. Gassing at Auschwitz The prosecution read a confession by Irma Grese, who admitted that ail the members of the S.S. Guard shared the guilt for the atrocities in the concentration camps. She said the crimes to which she referred were gassing persons at Auschwitz and killing thousands in Belsen by starvation and untended disease.

LONDON, Oct. 5

Grese added that she considered that crime to be murder.

Grese, after denying that she beat prisoners, later admitted that she struck them with her hands. Then she confessed to using a riding crop and sticks. She admitted she carried a pistol, but insisted that it was never loaded and she did not know how to use it. She knew all about the gas chamber at Auschwitz, but only because the prisoners had told her.

NUREMBERG TRIALS FRANCE APPOINTS JUDGE Rec. 1.30 p.m. PARIS, Oct. 5. A High Court judge. M. Robert Falco, will be France's representative on the Military Court at the Nuremberg trials, with Professor Conebieu de Vadres. a member of the Law Faculty of the Sorbonne, as his alternate.

The designation of M. Falco completes the four-Power Court. Britain previously named Lord Justice Lawrence, America Mr. Francis Biddle, and Russia her leading jurist, M. Nickichenko.