NAZI TORTURE HORRORS
Recd. 6 p.m. London, Aug. 23. The British United Press correspondent at Cannes cables: “In a tour of the Maquis country I saw the remains of cottages which the Germ, ns had burned to the ground with the owners lied on their beds inside them
because they had aided parachutists. I heard at one town how 45 civilians were killed for the same reason. The were tortured first by having thei arms and legs broken. I saw in another town a torture chamber, crie from which kept the whole no? boarhood awake at night. The walls were spattered with blood. There was a special device for tearing out people’s eyes, and also a wooden coffin in which the Gestapo placed prisoners to terrorise them before torture. A French parachutist told me of how he had seen his brother burned before being shot.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 203, 25 August 1944, Page 5
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