NAZI CAMPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 11

NAZI CAMPS

_ POLITICAL PRISONERS “ALL (IWADES OF SOCIETY” ADELAIDE, Sepl. 18. 1 The Rev. K. J. F. RiekerstrU). ( for i-1 years headmaster of St. Peter’s College, j Adelaide, who left for England to lake’ an appointment in Felstead School, Essex, has written to the Rev. 11. \Yal-, lace Bird, ol St. Augustine s. 1 nicy, •' |l uneerisorcd letter on a visit he paid !o a Nazi concentration camp Mr. Iliekersleth says that, he attended an international coiileronco id a lienedirliue monastery in the Ravarian Alps, where they met students from 25 to 30 different nations, lie and his brother ami Iwo other Englishmen got permisi iifii to visit a concent ration ( amp mi laming 2500 political prisoners. They, were allowed to speak In anyone llicyj liked, anil were soon surrounded by a ci .wil of eager, strong-looking men wearing nothing but Y-shaped slips. Among Them were loriner ineirihers ol Parliament, lawyers, doctors, specialists, business men, shopkeepers, and rrpie scidatives of every grade ol society. They hail no idea whal they were accused of. could obtain no trial, and were unable to make any plans lo deal with business arrangements. The. vise I.oi's came away from Germany amazed at the vitality and force ol the Nazi Socialist movemeiil. which lias per-; mealed all grades ol society, and lias especially caught the, imagination ol 1 youth. | "l ndernonlh are cross currents,’ , writes Mr. Bielcersleth. “hut opposition has been stilleil, for it is death, or at ; least imprisonment, to proclaim any 1 doctrine contrary to the Nazi pro- ; gramme. France is alarmed, and considers the danger-point will he reached in 1937, when its numbers of able bodied I lighting men will he, lowest owing to I lie < diminution of births during the war vonrs. . 1 1