NAZIS INDICTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22464, 7 July 1936, Page 9

NAZIS INDICTED

FATE OF PRISONERS

ALLEGED BRUTALITIES

CONFERENCE HEARS DETAILS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received Jnly 0, 0.35 p.m.) LONDON. July 0

The Brussels correspondent of the News Chronicle reports that the spokesman for nine nations, representatives of which are attending a European conference, detailed examples of alleged Nazi torturing of and brutality to political prisoners.

The spokesman drew up a manifesto appealing to civilised nations throughout the world to unite in a protest to .Germany. Dr. Ecer, of Czechoslovakia, produced figures showing that 1,000,000 persons had been arrested since the Hitler regime, 10,000 being driven to commit suicide.

Miss Ellen Wilkinson, representing the British Labour Party, said that there were 105 concentration camps in Germany, in which were 40,000 prisoners. At Dachau the official punishments included whipping, beating the soles of the feet with iron rods, branding with lighted cigars and beating with rubber hose-pipes. At Kuhberg the prisoners were kept in damp cellars. They were continually in darkness, as the whole camp was underground. At Hohenstein a girl aged 22 was imprisoned for six clays in a dark hole in which she could not stand up.

At Sachsenburg a man was forced to stand with his arms extended until he fainted. At Wuppertah 90 prisoners were forced to eat "gourmandjse de komna," which is sour herring smeared with grease and rolled in salt and black soap, the whole being soaked in sugar beet juice. At Heuberg, continued Miss Wilkinson, a man was nyule to work until he collapsed, after which ice-cold water was poured over him. As he was perspiring, this caused his death. The meeting telegraphed to Herr Hitler demanding an amnesty for political prisoners.