NAZI CAMPS

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1945, Page 5

NAZI CAMPS

Grim Revelations U.S. PARTY TO INVESTIGATE. (Rec. 9.40). WASHINGTON. April 22. Following an invitation from General Eisenhower to view at first-hand evidence of Nazi atrocities, nine Senators and Representatives, and 17 leading editors and publishers will soon be flying to Europe. The Congressmen ihclude Senator Barkley, majority leader, who will join three Republican representatives, including Mrs Clare Boothe Luce, who is already, in Europe The newspapermen are headed bv Mr Julis Ochs Adler, general man'ager of the “New York Times . The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says: Senator Brooks and Representatives Vorys and Short, who are included in the Congressional inspection party, have been among the most active in Congress against internationalism. INSPECTION BY BRITISH PARLIAMENTARIANS'. (Rec. 9.45). LONDON, April 22. Correspondents say that a delegation "of Members of the House of Commons spent one hour at Buchenwald camp' yesterday. They declined to comment on their impressions, which will be embodied in a White Paper, but some complained that, they were allowed insufficient time to inspect the camp. The inmates of one hut erected a large sign reading: “The German prisoners, of Buchenwald welcome their friends.” Soldiers urged the. audience to remain when an atrocity newsreel was screened at a London West End cinema. Unable to bear the sight of the horrors of prison camps, some members of the audience had begun to leave. Repatriated soldiers from German camps are largely responsible for the film" industry’s decision to show these atrocity newsreels in all cinemas. At. first film interests believed that the pictures were too horrible to screen, but they; adopted the view of repatriated men that everyone should be allowed to see what happens in German military and slave labour camps. Four German fighter bombers bombed and machine-gunned Allied ambulances in Belsen camp on Friday said a “Daily Mail’s” correspon- • dent. They also attacked our water supply points ,and . the camp’s electricity system, killing and wounding sick and starving prisoners. The camp from where prominent prisiners removed before the arrival of Americans recently was Oglag 4 C, twenty-five miles south-east ot Leipzig, reports a “Times’s ’ correspondent, who was liberated from the camp The prominent ones removed by the Nazis were selected S Use 0 their connections with families in Britain and America being of possible use to the Nazis. General Bors, the leader ol the » Polish forces who fought at Warsaw was among those removec l’ , a ßelease three times refused to accept ielease on condition that he assi d ■ mans to form an V nd . er A p Russians h Army to fight against the Russ ans.