VINDICTIVE NAZIS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24791, 16 December 1941, Page 5

VINDICTIVE NAZIS

TREATMENT OF BELGIANS (Rec. 9 p.m.) , RUGBY, Dec. 14. ! An increasingly sober picture of the conditions and suffering in the slave countries of Europe, is being pieced together' by surveys' of ■news either filtering through;, or blatantly announced the Germans. Belgium, which hitherto appears to have escaped comparatively lightly, is now the object of vindictive Nazi attentions.: In Brussels alone recently 400 citizens, charged with taking,part in anti-Ger-man demonstrations, were arrested in one day and 50 more the next day. All Belgian prisons, where the warders have been superseded by Germans, are full to .overflowing. At St. Giles prison, on ; the outskirts of Brussels, five or six prisoners occupy a cell intended . for one. The food is con> pletely inadequate, arid those who serve sentences of a few weeks there emerge, in a state of extreme weakness.: , ■'' ■" The oppression, of Jews is not without its grim humour. In Denmark ho sooner had the Anti-Comintern Pact been signed than it was officially pointed out in Berlin that all the countries which joined the pact must solw the Jewish problem in one way or an'other. Consequently the Danish Nazis are trying hard -to create a Jewish, problem in Denmark. It has never existed until now. Jewish professors in Copenhagen University, the cultural stronghold against Nazism, are being attacks for having influenced students, and Jewish bankers and politicians are abused in Nazi papers.