“LIKE THE MIDDLE AGES”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19587, 6 September 1933, Page 7

“LIKE THE MIDDLE AGES”

SIDELIGHTS ON NAZI ACTIVITIES STAGGERING REVELATION OF PRISON CAMPS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 4. “If only the German people could see what I saw in that camp, they surely would not suffer it to continue another week," writes Mr Arnold Forster, technical adviser to the National Peace Council, describing a visit to the Bavarian concentration camp. "I have reason to believe that 14 were killed in the camp in horrible ways, and many were maltreated. It U like the Middle Ages. I was not allowed to see the prison quarters. Men and boys arc imprisoned without trial or sentence. I cannot describe the expression of hopelessness in the faces of that tragic company. Electrified barbed wire around the camp is the wire around all Germany now.” DISTURBING INTERNAL POLICY TRAINING OP STORM TROOPS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 4. The lesson from the Nuremburg rally, says the Berlin correspondent of "The Times," is that the training and organisation of Storm battalions will be pursued unremittingly. Their discipline and equipment has markedly improved since the Nazis attained power, and their potential military value progressively Increases. The Congress demonstrated that the anti-Jewish policy will not be modified, but the worst campaign is apparently over, with the elimination of Jewish doctors, lawyers and other professionals, whose lot is tragic. Jewish shopkeepers managing to carry on may survive the oppression. The anti-Semitic speeches of Herr Hitler and Dr. Goebbels at Nuremburg, were followed by the unofficial boycott of Jewish shops. Pickets roughly handled would-be customers. The authorities did not interfere.