Hitler Orders Mass Murders at Lublin

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 211, 6 September 1944, Page 4

Hitler Orders Mass Murders at Lublin

GERMAN GENERAL’S DAMNING REVELATIONS Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 5. The mass murders at the Maidenek camp at Lublin were ordered by Hitler and Himmler. This waa stated by Lieutenant-General Milmar Moser, who before bis capture by the Russians commanded the area near Maidenek. In a letter to the Red Army published in the Moscow press, Moser says he can no longer keep silent about this “grievous crime.’’ He adds: “I have been an honest soldier for 42 years and I consider it my duty to tell the whole truth about the Maidenek extermination camp. Wo called it the ’Jewish camp’ because at first mostly Jews were kept there. Later representatives of all European nationalities and socalled political criminals, among them Germans, were taken there. ‘ • Some were shot and some gassed. I was told that several people condemned to death had to do extremely heavy work. I learned with indignation that the prisoners were tortured before being killed. In the winter of 1943-44 a great number of people In the camp were destroyed. To my great Indignation women and children were among them. Last spring innumerable corpses were exhumed and burned in special furnaces to cover up traces of the crimes committed on Hitler’s Orders.”