80,000 POLES

Grey River Argus, 7 June 1943, Page 5

80,000 POLES

IMPRISONED IN ONE NAZI CAMP. 8.0.W. RUGBY, May 27. According to information reaching the Polish Government in London, the notorious Majdanek concentration camp has now been extended by the Germans to hold 80,000 prisoners. Most are victims of mass arrests and man hunts carried out in Warsaw and other Polish towns recently. The Germans have started to call these prisoners officially “prisoners oi war taken by the military and S.S. occupation detachments.” This fact, it is stated, is further proof that the mass arrests carried out at Warsaw, Lwow, and Cracow were preventive actions in which the Germans seized and imprisoned those considered to be the most dangerous elements among the Poles capable of organising resistance. Those called prisoners of war are treated with particular cruelty. There is no water for the use of these prisoners. The Germans, however, recently built a'bath for their police dogs which are especially trained to guard these prisoners.