NAZI TORTURE FORT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5

NAZI TORTURE FORT

PRESERVATION BY BELGIANS 12«L.5i m*' • fONDON, Oct. 3. _The Belgians, intend to preserve Breendock, the low-lying fort on the approaches to Antwerp, in which the B** yP&PS* *>atr* states aßri! SwtiH mlh-' S^ SS c^ es Poncient who yKA'^ ey billed over 120 men in a month here," said th* guide, referring to the courtyard, where a gallows or a firing squad was iisel when tortures failed. The correspondent Continues:" "When peace comes the : people will •be able to seethe branding irons and also a pulley with which men were lifted from the ground by ankles and then dropped.in sharp jerks for hours; % a yJHpPfpe- room > with steel rods with which the whipping was done. One cell contains a hole through which the Germans forced gas, and also an air pump with which the victim could keep himself ahve until his strength failed.^ Prisoners in other cells were subjected alternatively , to extremes of heat and cold.

Some patriots marked on the walls of the cells how long they were there. The longest time recorded was 20 days. Quislings now occupy the patriots' cells. One of these quislings is alleged to have betrayed 300 patriots." ■