TORTURE CHAMBER
LONDON. August 23. The British United Press correspondent at Cannes cables: “In a tour of the Maquis country 1 saw the remains ol co(t:ige< which the Germans hiul hurneJ Io Hie‘ground with the owners tied on their beds inside them because, they bail aided parachutists. I heard at one town how 45 civilians were killed for tin. same reason. They were tortured first by having their arms and legs broken. I saw in another town a torture chamber. cries from which kept the "’hole neighbourhood awake at. night. walls were spattered with blood. Ibero was a special device for tearing out people's eyes, and also a wooden, count in which the Gestapo placed prisoners to terrorize them before torture. A French parachutist told me how be had seen his brother burned before being shot.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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