NAZI ATROCITIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21560, 3 August 1933, Page 9

NAZI ATROCITIES

FATE OF SOCIALISTS TORTURED TO DEATH FOUR MEN DECAPITATED UNPROVEN MURDER CHARGES By Telegraph—Prcsß Association—Copyright (Received August 2, G. 5 p.m.) LONDON. Auk. 1 A special correspondent of the Daily Herald states that Herr Alfred Faust, a Socialist editor and member of Parliament for the State of Bremen, was tortured to death in a Nazi camp. Although he was 50 years old and suffering from heart disease, Herr Fanst was continually beaten and kicked, and when he collapsed under the strain of hard work, young Nazis actually played football with his body. Later the torture culminated in Herr Faust being trampled to death. Ho was secretly buried. The correspondent states that 20 Socialists were tortured to death or shot this week in the Brunswick district. Four 'young Communists, a sailor, a shoemaker, a plumber and a workman, were decapitated with an axe in the courtyard of Altona Gaol to-day. They had been found guilty of murder on "Bloody Sunday," July 17, 1932, when Communists attacked a Nazi procession causing bitter street fighting. lfc was not proved that shots fired by tho accused actually killed anyone, but the Premier of Prussia, Captain Goering, ignored pleas for mercy in accordance with tho announcement that no clemency would be shown to those who darod to attack tho Brown Shirts. Forty-six Communists, who were .attempting to distribute anti-war pamphlets in Berlin, wore placed in a concentration camp "in view of tho particular baseness of the agitation." Herr Fritz Kosenfelder, founder of the Sports Club of Sannstadt, from which ho was expelled because he was a Jew, committed suicide. He left a letter stating: "Since I am prohibited from doing the work I love, I am committing suicide with tho hope of making my Christian friends realise how the Jews are treated in Germany." AUTHORITY DEFIED NAZIS IN SWEDEN INCIDENT AT STOCKHOLM (Received August 2. 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, Aug. 2 The Stockholm correspondent of the Times states that Nazis, wearing political uniforms, which are prohibited in Sweden, held a farewell ceremony in Stockholm. The leaders ordered the members to wear swastika armlets under their jackets. As the Nazis returned from their headquarters, they jeered at and hissed the police, who were obliged to protect them. The Government has issued a decree that ownefs of firearms must report to .the police. While it is clipping the claws of the Right extremists in this way, the naval authorities insist upon action being taken agaihst the Communists, who are alleged to be undermining the loyalty of the men in the naval stations.