Nazi Torture Made His Brother Insane; Killed His Mother
(Received 12 noon)
Anthony Fiala, a Czech-born American, returning home in the liner Manhattan, is a brother of a former Prague hotel-keeper, who became speechless and insane from Nazi torture. The effect on Fiala’s mother of his brother’s condition caused her death. “What I saw in Prague,” Fiala said, “aroused me to volunteer for the Czech legion in Paris, but I was rejected because I am an American. “Twenty thousand persons ai’e imprisoned in Prague. “Vaclav Klofac, former Defence Minster of the Czech Republic, died in prison from ‘unknown causes.’ “Five thousand were killed or have died of ill-treatment since the student massacre last October.”
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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1940, Page 5
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