POLITICAL PRISONERS
TREATMENT IN GERMANY. SEVERITY INCREASING. LONDON, Dec. 1. The treatment of political prisoners in Germany is becoming worse, says the ex-editor of a Communist paper who was arrested on February 28 and remained in a concentration camp at Sonncnburg until October and is now taking refuge in Britain under the assumed name of Lentz. Ho visited the House of Commons accompanied by Lord Marley and declared that the increase in anti-Hitlcr propaganda was immediately reflected in heavier punishments at the concentration camps. He had seen people lying on the ground with flesh torn off their arms and back. There were special torture cells at Sonncnburg. where prisoners spent a number of days after arrival. Afany died after the beatings, their bodies being hung up to suggest suiciC«. Prisoners arriving from another camp were covered with vermin and were compelled to stand naked for five hours. One was beaten fatally the same night.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 286, 4 December 1933, Page 7
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