ALLEGED TORTURE
GERMAN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA THREATS OF REPRISALS BERLIN, June 17. The press gives prominence, accompanied by veiled threats of reprisal, to the alleged torture of a German, Bruno Weigel, in a Czechoslovakian prison at Prague. Weigel was arrested, and it was alleged that he was tortured because he refused to give information about Nazi activities in Czechoslovakia. He was released without explanation. The press says the soles of his feet were beaten with rubber truncheons, and that electricity was applied to them. He was told that he and his wife would be condemned to death.
AN OFFICIAL DENIAL PRAGUE, June 18. (Received June 18, at 11.30 p.m.) An official communication categorically denies that Weigel was illtreated. It explains that Weigel was detained on charges of espionage and illegally organising Nazi groups in Czechoslovakia. As a political prisoner he was given a better cell than those used for ordinary prisoners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23221, 19 June 1937, Page 13
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