NEGLIGENCE AND CRUELTY
WAR PRISONERS DIE IN BULGARIA (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2. Many Allied airmen died in Bulgarian prisoner of war camps from negligence and cruelty, alleges an Allied air sergeant who has arrived at Cairo from Bulgaria. He has signed a sworn statement describing the conditions in the camp. He told the Cairo correspondent of the British United Press: “I saw a fellow prisoner operated on for stomach injuries and immediately after the operation an attendant jerked him into a sitting position. The stitches burst and he fell back dead. Another prisoner who had head injuries was put into solitary confinement for four days without medical aid. He also died. Allied* prisoners numbering 200 were kept in a room intended for 50 people.” The sergeant, who was wounded in the foot when shot down over Bulgaria, said that the prison doctors operated on him without an anaesthetic. “When I screamed a nurse struck me. During the operation a Bulgarian officer came into the room and said ‘You bombed Sofia’ and hit me in the face with the butt of his gun. The doctor laughed at the incident. My foot developed gangrene and I had to undergo another operation.
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Southland Times, Issue 25484, 3 October 1944, Page 5
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