TASKS OF PRISONERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21552, 25 July 1933, Page 9

TASKS OF PRISONERS

CONCENTRATION CAMP USELESS NATURE DESCRIBED LONDON, July '-'3 Tlie Hamburg correspondent of the fcuiiday Graphic reports that the Nazi commandant ot the great concentration camp at h'uiilsbueitel stated: lie British ought to realise that we must have concentration camps lor l ominuuists and Jews because the prisons are lull." , • J he camp is half a mile square and is unrounded by electrified barbed who icncefc and armed guards. It is crowded with''l2.ooo prisoners, mostly Jews. The commandant added that the prisoners had grown idly wealthy at tin. expense of Germans, and must now work to become useful citizens. The correspondent says lie saw . l,| ouK;ii!<ls of prisoners perspiring turionsl> in the rain over useless, tasks. » omo were digging a great hole and otlieis were refilling it, while others again Mere moving a great boulder lumber and thither. The prisoners' wives and women Communists were employed ill cooking Jind in making Nazi uniforms. _ The camp contains a garden in which the llowor beds take the form of a Mvastika, which the prisoners must water daily. They must alw> .attend lectures on the benefits of Hitlcrisni<