CRIMES OF NAZIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1945, Page 8

CRIMES OF NAZIS

SHOWN ON THEATRE SCREENS

The conditions which existed in the Nazi horror camps of Buchenwald and Belsen and the plight to which the German criminals reduced their victims are vividly presented in a film of the two infamous places which was screened at the Regent Theatre yesterday afternoon and which is to be run at a number of movie theatres. The film shows the British Parliamentary Committee's visit to the scenes of the Nazi murder and torture of thousands of prisoners and gives a graphic presentation of the physical and mental state to which the prisoners were reduced by the inhuman treatment they received. It shows the places of torture, the camp incinerators, the piles of dead and the mass graves which were prepared for them. It also shows the brands which the Nazis placed on the bodies of their captives, and the conditions under which the prisoners had to live. One series of shots reveals the lire blackened bodies of captives whom the Nazis shot down for their amusement when they dashed from a prison hut in which they had been herded before it was deliberately set ablaze. Other sequences reveal the inhabitants of the nearby region being marched off to dig graves for the pitiful creatures whose starved condition would not be credited if it were not seen, and the Nazi party leaders being forced to retrieve the bodies. This terrific indictment of Nazi Germany ends with a portion of a speech by Mr. Winston Churchill included to make a point that had Germany end Japan assailed Britain in 1940, after the fall of France these horrors might have been repeated in Britain itself.