BRUTAL TREATMENT
l POLES IN CONCENTRATION 1 CAMPS ■: i- % RUGBY, May 27. According to information reaching the Polish Government in London, the notorious Majdanek concentration camp has now been extended by the Germans to hold 8000 prisoners. Most of these are the victims of mass arrests and man-hunts carried out at Warsaw and other Polish towns recently. The Germans have started to call these people officially “ prisoners of war taken by the military S.S. occupation detachments.” This fact, it is stated, is further proof that mass arrests have been carried out at Warsaw, Lwow, and Cracow as preventive actions in which the Germans seized and imprisoned those considered to be the most dangerous elements among the Poles capable of organising resistance. Those called prisoners of war are treated with particular cruelty. There is no water for their use, but the Germans recently ,built a batj} for their police dogs, which are especially trained to guard these prisoners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25238, 29 May 1943, Page 5
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