NAZI EXPERIMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1942, Page 5

NAZI EXPERIMENT

PRISONERS GASSED

' RUGBY, January 11. The tale of oppression in Ger-man-occupied territories continues to grow in volume. From Vienna comes news of a particularly revolting: practice indulged in by the Nazis. ' In Mauthausen concentration camp 700 young Jews and antiFascists are stated to have fallen victims to poison gas experiments. Most were Dutch and Austrian refugees, caught by the Nazis when they marched into Holland. The anti-church, campaign in Austria has set in with renewed vigour. Religious instruction in schools has been practically suppressed. Roman Catholic parents, persisting in demands for religious instruction, have been admonished to "put national claims before petty religious problems." Oppression in Norway has been intensified. The village of Raudeberg, where a British landing took place, has been fined 10,000 kroner because German cables were cut in 35 places. The fine will be severely felt, as Raudeberg has only a few hundred inhabitants. FELT IN SWEDEN. Quisling has now rewritten those chapters in his book "Russia and Ourselves," 5 which refer to Britain's relations with Norway. So small has been the sale that 25 copies must now be bought by each commune. Repercussions of the Nazi, regime are felt even in neutral Sweden, where, under the new clothes rationing scheme, men are allowed only one suit, two shirts, one set of underwear, four pairs of socks, and five handkerchiefs during the next eighteen months. The German Press publishes a furious condemnation of the Swedish nation, its chief complaint being the refusal of Sweden to export textiles and winter clothing for German soldiers on the Eastern Front. German newspapers accuse Sweden of being "slaves of the Jews, or aiders of Russia." The "Volkischer Beobachter" says: "Sweden likes to forget that she belongs to Europe. She will one day.be forcibly reminded thereof by Germany." The Norwegian ,•■ Legation in the United States has been informed that the Germans are tripling concentration camps in Norway because of the population's refusal to co-operate with the occupying authorities. There are now five camps and ten additional ones are being built.—B.O.W.,