WOMEN IN CAMPS SHORN
HAIR FOR WAR WORK. Berl’n, Sept. 4. Two German women S.S. guards captured to-day admitted that at the notorious Rnvensbruck concentration camp near Berlin women were shorn Vko sheep to supply hair for the German war industry. Thov that 200 000 women and children, mostly Jewesses, were killed at Ravensbruck. The women were periodically horded into a shearing room where their heads were cropped. As soon as the new hair grew they were returned to the shearing room.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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