NAZI PRISON CAMPS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 11

NAZI PRISON CAMPS.

MANY THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS. FORMULA TO EXPLAIN DEATHS. ("UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION' —BY ELXCTEIC TELEGRAPH —CQPYEXIHT.) (Received July 13, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. I Dr. Spiegel, a Jewish lawyer who was recently marched by Nazis barefoot through the streets of Munich with a placard suspended from his neck reading: "I will never again complain to the police about the Nazis," was murdered "while attempting to escape" from the concentration camp at Dachau. The "Daily Herald" says that the Nazis admit his death, but the formula "while attempting to escape is now regularly used to account for deaths of victims at concentration camps. The Dachau camp is surrounded by electrified barbed wire, making escape impossible. "Tiio The Berlin correspondent of J-he Times" says that curiosity regarding the number of prisoners in concentration camps has been only partially appeased by the official nouncement that there are 18,000, including 12,000 in Prussia. An unofficial estimate, based on the numbers of daily arrests since the Reichstag fire, would have been nearer 100,oSo. The NaziMmgter for the Interior in Saxony, Kerr Fritsch, recently boasted that there were twice as many P riso " e " . £ c axo nv's camps as m .Prussia sThere have also . been , t^?^n^| t es arrests in Bavaria and other states recently.

HITLER ALLEGED TO BE A JEW. AUSTRIAN CLAIM. DEVELOPMENTS OF NAZI PROGRAMME. (Received July 13, 10.40 p.m.) BERLIN, July 12. The Nazi social revolution throughout Germany is taking strange forms. For instance, the socalled "cleansing" of the film industry requires all film directors, photographer?, and other experts to prove their German nationality and Aryan origin by producing documents proving the religion of their gr Cudously t enough, simultaneously, in Vienna, "Oesterreiches Abendblatt" published full details of entries of birth, in about 1820, and photographs of tombstones, proving that Herr Hitler himself is descended from a. Jewish, family from Polna, Czechoslovakia. Prohibited Newspapers. The Prussian Minister for the Interior has now prohibited the circulation of 291 foreign newspapers, including five British, 33 French, 48 Austrian, 11 Russian, and 12 American. The sale in Germany of foreign newspapers in the German language, printed abroad, has increased enormously during recent months, while the circulation of newspapers printed in Germany has fallen heavily.