Nazi Brutality to Jews and Catholics; Shocking Reports

Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 5

Nazi Brutality to Jews and Catholics; Shocking Reports

(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. QVER 80 JEWS DIED IN BUCHWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP, NEAR WEIMAR, DURING JULY, ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE “NEWS CHRONICLE.” Seventy prisoners were forced to break stones for 14 hours a day. When they fainted they were left where they lay. Breaches of discipline are punished by flogging, usually resulting in a victim’s death immediately or ultimately. The Berlin representative of the “News Chronicle” says the secret police deny the accuracy of the figures, but numerous cases are known in Berlin of Jews being summoned by the police to fetch the ashes of their relatives, for which they must pay 3/-, the cost of cremation.

A Vienna message says Dr, Rudolf Leider, famous throat and nose specialist, committed suicide, ft is believed owing to the recent ban on Jewish doctors. Nuns Expelled. A new Nazi move against the Roman Catholic Church aims at the gradual extinction of Catholic parochial schools throughout Austria by restrictions upon admission of new pupils, reduction of classes, and control of examinations by officials from State schools. Roman Catholic kindergartens are already being conducted by lay supervisors, instead of by nuns. Nazi nurses have replaced nuns in Vienna hospitals, and the surplus nuns are being sent to South America.