Ghastly Pictures of German Bestiality

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 93, 20 April 1945, Page 5

Ghastly Pictures of German Bestiality

SOME TOO HORRIBLE TO PUBLISH Received Thursday, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, April 19. The morning newspapers published some of the war’s most gruesome pictures taken in German concentration and slave labour camps which the Allies in the west have liberated. They confirm the written descriptions of the Germans’ appalling brutality. General Eisenhower is shown talking with a released slave labour man at the camp at Ohrdruf near Gotha. The general is wearing the grimmest expression ever shown in a published picture. Another picture of Ohrdruf shows naked bodies stacked in layers in a shed and sprinkled with lime. Some had been beaten to death.

A terrible picture shows rows of im buried dead political prisoners at Nord hausen where the Americans found over 2000 unburied. In the background there is a row of bearers carrying more bodies. They tell a story of prolonged starvation and cruelty in their unbelievedly emaciated bodies.

Another picture shows a group of Weimar citizens whom the Americas made inspect the Buchenwald concentration camp gazing at a lorry-lojd oi naked corpses all terribly emaciated.

Another picture shows Weimar citizens standing before furnaces still containing the skeletons of cremated victims. Other pictures show well-fed citizens of Weimar alking through barracks in which the horribly emaciated inmates are too weak to stand or even sit up.

The Daily Telegrapu says some of the official pictures received are too horrible to print.