LATEST NAZI TORTURE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23702, 9 January 1939, Page 8

LATEST NAZI TORTURE

"STARE AT THE LIGHT" PRISON CAMP HORRORS LONDON, Dec. 30. Describing the treatment of prisoners sent to the Dachau concentration camp, the Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says the latest torture of the Nazi guards is to piake the prisoners stare fixedly for a long period at electric light globes. “Any attempt to look away,” says the writer, “is met with truncheon blows. Prisoners are compelled to beat, each other and are then forced to stand at attention for hours.

“Any movement results in a merciless thrashing with leather whips. Prisoners are always flogged when they are sent to showed baths, often for three hours without interruption. All are herded in small rooms, and the only food is tea and bread without butter.

“At Buchenwald 15,000 prisoners are accommodated in a place fit for only 500. There is no covering on the beds, and the men. sleep in their clothes. Scores die every week. Some throw themselves against the barbed wires and are instantly electrocuted. Others are clubbed to death or are shot after insanity comes upon them.”