ALLIED PARACHUTISTS
TORTURED AND*SHOT CONCENTRATION CAMP IN AUSTRIA London, June 8. Among the remains of thousands of victims who were cremated at a concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria, are those of 48 Allied parachutists, including three Britons who were killed by S.S. men. Reporting this, Reuter’s correspondent says one of the murderers who was a member of the annhilations squad has been captured and Allied intelligence officers are now scouring Austria and Bavaria for the others. People liberated from the camp say the parachutists, who were captured in different parts of Europe, were made to carry heavy rocks up 168 steps leading to the top of a quarry while guards lashed them with whips and threatened to shoot them if the rocks fell. At the top of the steps the men were made to throw the rocks dow n into the quarry and then carry theta up to the top again. This daily torture ended on 6th September last year when the half-dead men were shot through the head as they struggled up the steps.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 June 1945, Page 6
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