CAMP HORRORS

Evening Star, Issue 25995, 9 January 1947, Page 5

CAMP HORRORS

A NEW SET PRISONERS CAVE BLOOD FOR BREAD (Rec. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 8. Carmen Mory, one of the accused, denied charges of. cruelty when she testified at the trial of 16 members of the staff of the Ravensbruck women’s concentration camp. Mory said she wrote to the Archbishop of Munster, who forwarded her letter to the Pope, with the result that the medical experiments on prisoners ceased. She added that she was in the antiS.S. underground movement. She signed a pact with the camp’s interrogator, and he sent; her to a Baltic camp to investigate the moral standards of the warders and wardresses. She was there when the war ended. “Twenty minutes after we left the Baltic camp it was blown up with the camp records.” Mory . added that she thereafter worked with the British field security police. The starving inmates of Bnchenwald camp willingly exchanged blood for bread, a former inmate, Dr Kodon, a Frankfurt magazine editor, testified at the trial of 23 German doctors at Nuremberg. He added that they gave 400 cubic centimetres of blood for each 300 grammes of bread. Many subsequently died. Kodon described the poison experiment? on Russian prisoners, and spotted fever experiments on other inmates. Russians who survived were strangled for dissection: He also described the pouring of phosphorus liquid on the prisoners’ arms.