PASTORS IN RUSSIA
INHUMAN TREATMENT GERMAN CHURCH REVELATIONS. LONDON, April 20. According to the Berlin correspondent of 1 The Times,’ the German Evangelical Church alleges inhuman persecution of its religious communities settled in the Volga Basin. It declares that 300 pastors havo been imprisoned and sent to labour camps. The church appeals for the immediate rescue of those prosecuted. The Ogpu hoped to extort a confession concerning alleged anti-Soviet activities. One pastor was condemned to hard labour in the Siberian forests, where he was obliged to fell trees in conditions of unutterable cold and filth. Often he lacked bread. A pastor named Erbes died of spotted typhus, which his starved system could not resist. Another, imprisoned by the Ogpu, was forced to stand upright in a ceil for seven days. When he collapsed exhausted lie was beaten and forced to stand again.
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Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 7
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