GERMAN MAYORS SEE BELSEN CAMP
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, April 25. “Six white-faced German Mayors, with handkerchiefs clasped to their noses, walked through the hell of Belsen concentration camp where they had been brought to see the horrors on behalf of their villages,” says the correspondent of The Daily Mail. “What they saw was still hell, although Allied medical teams have been working at top pitch for more than a week. “The margain between life and death is still imperceptible. The flame flutters out as you watch, even as you talk to people. Little flat heaps of rags at the roadside still conceal sohie frail body which lay down to die. There is still a stench which you feel will never leave the nostrils. There are still great open pits filled with jumbled bodies. Dour SS guards are being made to work until they drop, collecting the bodies and tipping them into the pits.
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Southland Times, Issue 25656, 26 April 1945, Page 5
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