NAZI HORRORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25180, 18 April 1945, Page 7

NAZI HORRORS

BUCHENWALD CAMP OBJECT LESSON MISSION OF MERCY RAPID STEPS TAKEN (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 17 Groups of German men, women, boys and girls were taken yesterday around the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp by American military police so that they could see with their own eyes the result of Nazi brutality. They were led by the houses where 40 men had died every day, past the great mounds of skeletons in the courtyard and through the crematorium. A correspondent who accompanied some of these groups said the more stolid Germans were silent as they looked at one frightful sight after another, but some German women burst into tears and others fainted. Some said they had no idea that these things were happening near their homes. The American authorities have taken rapid steps to ease the desperate plight of the 21,000 inmates of the camp. They have forced German civilians to help them. Food and clothing, all belonging to German civilians, has been requisitioned for the camp and supplie.s of fresh milk rushed from German farm* for the children. A special child welfare unit has been sent for. German houses have been taken over to accommodate all prisoners in the camp capable of being moved, and American doctors and nurses are battling to save the lives of the 5000 who cannot be moved from the camp hospital.