G.C. WINNER TO TELL OF SADISM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 5

G.C. WINNER TO TELL OF SADISM

NAZI WOMEN’S CAMP

STAFF CHARGED

FIENDISH EXPERIMENTS

MASS EXTERMINATION (10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 5, Experiments which are said to have turned healthy girls in their twenties to grey-haired old women are listed in indictments charging 10 men and six women members of the staff of the Ravcnsbruch women’s concentration camp with killing

and ill-treating Allied nationals, ,savs Reuter’s correspondent in Hamburg.

Five thousand women are said to have died in 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 who escaped, 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.