HIMMLER’S COMPLAINT

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1946, Page 7

HIMMLER’S COMPLAINT

PRISONERS “NOT DYING FAST ENOUGH” A NAZI HORROR CAMP (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 5. Experiments said to have turned healthy girls in their twenties to grey-haired old women are listed in the indictments charging 10 men and six women, members of the staff of the Ravensbruch women’s concentration camp, with killing and illtreating Allied nationals, says Reuter’s Hamburg correspondent. Five thousand women are said to have died in the gas chambers. Only 15,000 out of the 150,000 sent to the camp during the war were left to be liberated when the Russians arrived in May, 1945. The prosecutor said that Himmler once visited the camp and complained that the inmates were not dying fast enough. As a result two experts in mass extermination were sent there. A 8.8. C. broadcast by a Polish girl, describing the experiments in the camp, caused the commandant to herd together all the survivors and exterminate them. Mrs. Odette Sanson, a George Cross winner, who was a prisoner there, will tell the court a story of nightly thrashings and sadistic punishment. The prosecutor said that children born in the camp were killed at birth. Doctors in experimental operations forcibly chloroformed women, who later found that they had been sterilised or had bones grafted. Two of every five such women died through the doctors trying to. improve their knowledge of technique. An S.b. corporal personally shot 200 women daily. He was given a proficiency badge, but the rate was not considered fast enough. One woman who was thrashed, concealed her artificial leg because it would have meant death automatically. The Chief Accused. The chief accused is 24-year-old Theodora Blinz, who trained Irma Grese, who was executed for Belsen atrocities. Carmen Mory, another woman prisoner, smiled during the prosecutor s address. Mory, an attractive brunette, has already been convicted by the French for espionage. Mrs. Sylvia Salveson, described as a relative of the King of Norway, said her hair turned grey in the concentration camp. She declared in evidence: “God give me words to describe Ravensbruck. If I were the greatest painter, poet, or oiatoi, 1 could not give a full picture.