PRISONERS PILLORIED.
EPISODE AT KARLSRUHE.
CAPTIVES INSULTED AND JEERED!
TAKEN THROUGH PUBLIC STREETS
United Pre?s Assn.—-Elec Tel. Copyright, (Received May 17, 11.45 a.m.) BERLIN, May 16.
A modern version of the pillory was introduced during the conveyance of political prisoners to a concentration camp near Karlsruhe. Dr. Hammele, ex-Prosident of Baden. Herr Stenz, ex-Government official at Baden, and also the Socialist deputy iii the Reichstag; the editor of a social journal, an ex-police chief, and several leaders of the Roichsbaimer at Baden, were placed bareheaded in ,an open police lorry, which was strongly guarded by Brown Shirts and driven slowly through the main streets of Karlsruhe, to enable the crowds to insult and jeer the captives.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18947, 17 May 1933, Page 7
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