TEN THOUSAND SUICIDES.

Wairarapa Age, 7 July 1936, Page 5

TEN THOUSAND SUICIDES.

INDICTMENT OF NAZI KtGIME IN GERMANY. PROTEST BY REPRESENTATIVES OF NINE NATIONS. TERRIBLE EXAMPLES OF TORTURE & BRUTALITY. (Received Monday, 10.0 p.m.) LONDON, July 6. The “ News-Chronicle’s” Brussels correspondent reports that the spokesmen of nine nations attending a European conference detailed examples of alleged Nazi brutality and the torturing of political prisoners and drew up a manifesto appealing to civilised peoples throughout the world to unite in a protest to Germany. Dr. Ecer, a Czechoslovakian, produced figures showing that a million persons had been arrested during the Hitler regime and ten thousand driven to suicide. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, representing the British Labour Party, said there were 105 concentration camps, in which there were 40,000 prisoners. At Caelum, official punishments included whipping, beating the soles of the feet with iron rods, branding with lighted cigars and beating with rubber hosepipes. At Kuhberg, prisoners were kept in damp cellars, continually in darkness, while in a camp underground at Hohenstein, a twenty*two-year-old girl was imprisoned for six days in a dark hole, in which she was unable to stand up. At Sachsenburg, a man was forced to stand with his arms extended until he fainted. At Wuppertah, ninety prisoners were forced to eat “gourmandise de komna,” which is sour herring smeared with grease, rolled in salt and black soap soaked in sugar beet’juice. A man was made to work at Heuberg until he collapsed, after which ice-cold water was poured over him as be was sweating, thus causing his death. The meeting telegraphed to Hitler demanding that he grant an amnesty to political prisoners.