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Saturday, November 18, 1939 Wyndham St., Hongkong Telophone: 20615
November 18, 1939.
You must go back for centuries in world history before you find the
counterpart
of
THESE
INSIDE
HORRORS GERMANY
This deliberate torture of mind and
CONDITIONS in the body, from which death has frequent-
20 years of age.
organisution
the
bent back for the purpose. This is overcrowded lorries. During the lorry done by express orders from the journey they were told to keep their commandant dreaded Nazi concen-ly been sought as a release, is car-
given through a heads between their knees and in. Interophone,
that position they were belaboured tration camps are describedied out by young guards of 17 to
"Special men are employed to carry with sticks. Release for a prisoner who bears out these punishments and they do "On arrival at the 'camp they were in a series of documents.
netbing else. The hanging lasts for driven with kicks and blows into a which were issued in Lon-surs is impossible.
atrocities com-10 to 12 hours and is in public. wire enclosure... Examples of the
.. My informant, don last week as a White milted in Germany against Germans "Another form of it is to have who was one of a parly of about 500, about Paper. A copy has just by the Nazl Government during the the arms round the trunk of the tree was assigned to a shed
past two years are described in a with wrists handcuffed. The feet are 2001t, by 80 and about 2,500 people GARAGE
were forced into it, been received by the "Tele- series of despatches published by the off the ground, but it is regarded as
night as a White milder punishment and the S.S. men "This on the face of it, appears graph" by "Air Mail." A Government last
ean infilet it at any time."
impossible. The explanation jo Paper. Stubbs Rd, Phones: 27778-9 foreword states:
The experiences
that there were tlers of bunks in of a Jewish-
the shed reaching to the ceiling, in Christian. Herr Z., in the concentra- MAN WHO MOANED "The German Governmenttion
camp at Buchenwald,
each of which three men had to lic. near Driven Mad by Punishment
The statement describes the case of
"No water was Jaid has complained of the mal-Weimar, after being arrested in
and there treatment of German minori-Berlin "without any cause or pretaxi" a man who gave way to a moan were no latrines. The prisoners were contained in anfter he had received and read a given no water to drink the Arst day ties in foreign countries and in June, 1936, are
communicated statement
to the letter from his home:
and never any water for washing. of the "Macedonian conditions' Foreign Omee on Oct. 20, 1038, by"For this he was tied up to a tree
The prisoners. were half reigning there.
Working to and left 14 hours. He became un-crazy with thirst and hunger.
conscious. Two guards paused: "It will be seen from the published papers that under the present regime the condi- tions in Germany itself and the treatment accorded Germans are reminiscent not got you! &c, Some 3-4 per cent. "Herr Z. had to pass on, but next plates, to which the man's fect were of Macedonia but of the dark-Aryans and a few gypsies. Taken time he saw the man his breast and strapped. He was then bent over a
the history of away in lorries under Camp Com-face were a mass of clotted blood, pole, and his head was secured be est ages in
mandant Schneider. One-and-half his eyes swoollen and purple. More tiveen two horizontal bars, Men man,"
hours to Buchenwald, Awful condi- over, he had gone mad."
were given up to 50 strokes, except It is explained that the documents tion of camp. Filth and mud up to The following description is given in the case of promiscuous Dogging were not written for publication and the knees in places. Many trees had of the SS, men employed at the inflicted for sport, and each guard they are published now only because been cut down but stumpa left. camp:
was only allowed to inflict 10 lashes of the "shameless propaganda" being Almost Impossible to walk.
"They were mostly very young men lest his strength gave out. issued by Bertin "accusing Britain of "A man with heart trouble
"Flogging was ordered for trining who of 17 to 20 who had been specially atrocities In South
forly cannot walk is dragged along by the 'trained' for the purpose. But they offences such as not jumping to atten- feet by other prisoners (5.5. men doj were already 60 brutalised and on quickly, or not obeying an order. years ago."
So long as there was the slightest not touch Jews). The flesh is torn sadistic that it was a constant wonder A rabbi was flogged because he re- prospeel of reaching any settlement from his face. He is so disfigured to Herr Z. how it could have been fused to sign his name on the Sabbath, with the German Government it to be unrecomisable. Other examples brought about. They seemed to revell He was then threatened with a second would have been wrong to do any similar to this,
in inflicting torture. One instance of flogging. His spirit was too weak thing to embitted relations between "In the whole comp there were it was the tickling of a prisoner's face and he signed.
about 10,000 men, 100 straw sacks with a straw and then when the face "Some dled stretched between the the two countries.
Consul- and no other furnishings. Threatwitched giving him a terrife blow, poles. Those who survived were -In fact, one British General who sent a report
men to each straw sack in four "Signs of weakness evidently exelte kicked back into the shed, In the atrocities in his chief naked that his
Obliged to lie on our sides; the sadistic Instincts of the guards, day-time the floggings took place in a warning to the others. and crosswise over sack so as to Thus when a man was on the ground bubile as confidential on the ground that "If;
make room; packed te sardince; at their feet they would habitually chained
Some went mad. They were then be treated as Information should
lace. There were their heads to stifle their shouts." broadcast it would probably rouse world opinion to a higher plich et Indignation."
a charity Germany.
Herr Z., it is explained, fought 'Aha! he is already dead! They TORTURE AT RANDOM through
wac. Following are loose him and throw his body on the Victims Go Mad exirnets from the statement:
ground. Then they jump on to his "During the first night guards came "Arrived at Weimar. Reception by bedy and stamp on him in their heavy in and picked out men at random and
to be S.S. men with Insults
outside and blows: beols. He-moves slightly, Ahal he took them
Dogged. Jewdogs, blackguards, now we have is not quite dend!'
Fixed on the ground were two foot-
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midst
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to
of
Even after the outbreak of war the ura
rows.
charge
moves in his
the
and
labour gang: they are helped on by instance, observed to me a few days "Indescribable Horror"
Mischief'). Our German cook, for THE DACHAU CAMP
was 'I
wherever
lying on the back forbidden or kick him in the
sack tied round blows given with a club.
many deaths daily. The men directly In
·The message then refers to the lack "For any prisoner who bore acara older
foot- prisoners. The 'Black release was impossible,... They of sunitary arrangements and
threatened that if a note explains that six lines had been British Government felt reluctant to Superiors, themselves professional were strictly
alcop might have the criminals,
us, with take action which
Their word was said as to what they had omitted owing to "the unprintable word is absolute law.
Every seen or experienced in the camp they character of the further details given." effect of inspiring hatred.
Following are further extracts: "But the attitude of the German sentry. Is to use his rifle without would immediately be put back." Government and
if anyone
"A former Prussian officer the unscrupulous warning
direction."
JOY IN MISCHIEF"
ordered to kneel down and say: propaganda which they are spreading
Sadistic Outbreaks
am a dirty Jew and o`traltor to my compels his Majesty's Government to
"EITHER WELL OR DEAD" The personal Impressions of British beaten until he did as he was told.
country.' He refused, and he was documents so that publish these
official representatives are recorded. publie opinion both here ond abroad No Jewish Sick
Describing the day's routine the Thus the Consul General at Cologne, they were first examined by the camp "When the prisoners were released -may-be able to judge for itself."
statement continues:
Mr. Bell, in a communication of Nov. doctor, and none with open wounds It would be invidious to mention UNIMPEACHABLE EVIDENCE
"Those who have reported sicht now 14, 1938, wrole:
was allowed to depart. The others particular inslauces of local ex- Indescribabic Horrors
come forward, are separated off and "Personally, I have been more
were shaved and then reported to the coldblooded and political officers, who warned them travagance but we believe that they' The documents are of unimpeach-inspected by the commandant. He at shocked by
consist of once treats the 'at' with his riding calculated manner
in which action that if they divulged anything they are notorious. Of late complains of able authenticity. They
by anything else had seen in the camp they would do waste of public monies have been reports from Sir Nevile Henderson, whip, in their face, in the presence was taken than
about the recent events. Yet I am so at their peril, when he was in Berlin as British of the others; 'Jews do not fill 11. widespread, both from Unofficial Ambassador, and from former Britian "The Commandant decides by alght inclined to think that the Fuehrer "He added that the party would be Members of the Legislative Council Consuls-General in Vienna, Cologne who is ripe for the doctor. These knows his Gernians. Amongst the able to strike them down even after and from members of the Public in and Munich, and of statements made number or 7 per cent,; the others masses of Germans who have nothing they left Germany and the correspondence columns of the by ex-prisoners to charity organisa. have to go back into the labour gang. al slake here is observable a certain they might be,"
No differentiation of the sick in the amount of Schadenfreude" ('Joy in Press. Our own columna hava re- peatedly given publicity to the ab
kicks and riding whip. normal growth of the Pensiona system,
"The doctor declares the sick as ago that it was high time a certain Some detals of the concentration either 'ilf' or 'nt'; in the latter case neighbouring Jew was washed up,' which, coupled with other expenditure
camp at Dachau (31 miles north- The Consul-General at Frankfort-west of Munich) where Jews arrested they are punished in the evening from which the Colony derives no
for 'les. In the end no Jews were on-Main, Mr. R. T. Smallbones. In a in South and West Germany are benefit whatever (c. Military Con-
necepted as sick; they could only communication of Dec, 14, 1938, said: Internet, are contained in a message "Recent events have revealed to me from the Censul-General at Munich, |tributions), has now reached a stage
be well or dead.' "In the roll-call many are unable facet of the German character Me. J. B, M. Carvell, where expenditure out of all
to Viscount, to continue standing: they have to which I had not suspected. They Halifax, dated Jan. 5 of the present proportion to the Colony's ability to
their com-stemed to me to have no cruelty in year: Much of the White Paper, which be forcibly held up by pay. We have also pointed out in this consists of about 15,000 words in panions in misfortune, so that they their make-up. They are habitually "Apparently the Arst day of an additional annual liability for Civil camps at Dachau and Buchenwald, who are completely collapsed; the aged and infirm.
horror, since no released prisoner has Service pensions of some hundreds The natures of the tortures inflicted ranks must be complete.
"The explanation of this outbreaks been able or willing to speak about "The work consists of stone-break-of sadistle crucity may be that sexual On entering the comp of thousands of dollars-money col- at the latter camp are summed up by
every lected from Civil Servants as their They were not exceptional
∙one ex-prisoner as "indescribable." quarter of an hour away from perversion, and in particular homo- prisoner had his head shaved, and road which is to be built, sexuality, are very prevalent in Ger- was given a coarse linen prison sult to me that mass with a 'Star of David' stamped in Attempts at flight occur, but all end, many, It seems with shooting. Many end their suffer, sexual perversity may offer an ex-yellow upon il. ings by feigning flight in order to bo planation for this. otherwise inex- "It seems that no other clothing was SELECTED AT RANDOM
shot clown.
provided, aven Shouta Silfled with Backs
"A colony of 'cripples,' men with "I am persuaded that if the Govern-extreme winter weather. Under- One ex-prisoner writes that the wooden legs, ruptures (sometimes it ment of Germany depended on the clothing could, however, be bought at himself given orders that they might her belts are lost the ruptures becak suffrage of the people those in power the canteen at a price. Two hundred receive up to 60 strokes.
nut again), are obliged to
and responsible for these outrages to 300 persons were crowded together. Another statement describes how massive stones at the will of the would be swept away by a storm of in huis originally built for 60 to 90 extent of beiween five and six million | guards would come in at night and unrd. They included old men over Indignation. If not pût up against a persons. Some prisoners appear to :
have slept on the bare boards, but most had straw.
"Prisoners have been buffeted. Sicked,
tions and other badles
ommenting on the ex-prisoners reports it is stated: "Accounts of brutal treatment are too consistent to have been mere fabrications.
the docu "It is evident from ments." It is added, "ihat meltber the consolidation of the regime nor the passage of time, have in any way mitigated the Nazi party's]. savagery."
connection that the Colony piles up devoted to the. tsvo concentration can be seen from the front, even those kind animals, to children, to the captivity was one of Indescribable
contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme and mulet by Government as part of the Colony's revenue, Instead of being credited to Fund from which widows and
orphans can collect their pensions. It has been estimated that the Colony is already indebted to the
dollars, a sum which will have to be paid by the taxpayer when the central Pension scheme recommended by the Colonial Occ-and of which the Financial Secretary gave warning: inst year comes into operation.
to
check
dolly occurrence.
but of
the
Jews were told that the Euchrer had
select men at random for flogging.
"Seme of the victims went mad.
They were then chained up and a sack fled round their heads to stifle
their shouta."
carry
pilcabie outbreak.
and
after the onset of
oven beaten and
"A who were utterly unequal to the
wall and shot." work.
"In one instance a guard prodded
TEETH KNOCKED OUT wrth his bayonet a man who was 11 Police Atrocities ** and who kept on collapsing. After The message went on, to deserthe bastinadoed with steel birches. Somo i had happened repeatedly, the|the experiences of a Jow--a well- guards never speak to prisoners with- man rushed to the wire to put an educatod man, with a good business, out hitting them across the mouthr end to himself, and was shot down, who had served in the trenches in with the back of the hand. The Unhapplly, Government's attempts rather is it in unremitting thrift and FLOGGINGS in Camp
the war-who was arrested and first medical attendants ore particularly taken to the Exhibition Hall in callous in their disregard for prisoners in the of the need to requiro full value for Sumended 12 Hours extravagances
Frankfort-cn-Main. Here, after the requiring medical attention, Sixty have been in the every dollar spent. To the non-tax past appear to direction of curtailing social services, revenue of the Hongkong Treasury afternoon roll-call, the
"The floggings take place at the preliminary examination:
sufferers from frost-bite were dis- and the oft-reiterated pleas of past parsimony should be a sure
Individunla "The S.S. and police now had sport missed without treatment And
on being years that the Colony has been unable substantial contributor. Paralmony
having to step forward. The penalties with their charges. They made them told that their affliction would even- to afford money for the welfare at means not grudging what is needful, 25 sirokes on the seat, carried out their backs and lean forward until
are read out. Normal punishment is kuzel down, cross their hands bebing tually cure itself, the people compare grotesquely with but getting full value for what is
"NO ILL-TREATMENT" the confident approaches to Income spent. We do not belleve this Colony by two guards standing on each side they touched the ground with the Document at Relezso" and the "pooh-poohing" to-day of all is reiting anything approaching that tashed to a board. If he cries out form this feat were assisted by the with riding whips. The prisoner is foreheads.. Those who could not per- suggestions that we cannot pay toovalue. · Its Civil Service is everloaded
"The day of rotease is a veritable much additional taxation.
with highly-paid officers and starved The guards use all their force, some-inf the necks,
strokes are increased up to 35. guards, who kicked them in the back ordeal. The prisoners about to be In war-time, the temptation as well of local men on dollar salaries. Its es springing into the air so as to
berated are paraded in the open at as the disposition to lavish expendi pensions to retired civil servants, bring the arm down with Increased the building. Some were sick. The to the walat until about 10 n... when "Others were made to run.round 5.a.m., and are kept standing stripped ture under the banner of loyalty to only an Infinitesimal number of whom momentum. Empire la ́Irresistible, but there is, send their declining years In the
guards removed the vomit by taking the chief medical offices inspects them as the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock warn- Colony that pays them, threatens to
Few days pass without cases of the culprit by the scruff of the neck for evidences of ill-treatment. After ed, the grave fact that the Colony's involve us in a mire from which even logging, and the number may be from and wiping if away with his face and the inspection a stream of ice-cold resources, will need all the coretul the Income Tax proposel · for wat
fo 10. After the fogging the hair."
water from a hose-pipe is turned on husbanding we can now give them in needs may not. In times of peace, face to the wall to the end of the roll- for Weimar and Buchenwalds are addressed by the commandant,
have to stand to attention with
them. Before leaving the camp they. The prisoners were then entrained preparation - for the grim years of extricate us. S depression which will undoubtedly The 1940-41 "Ordinary: "Budget
Then the sanitary officer comer "During the journey, which took
who advises them to leave Germany follow peace in Eumpe, and which, serves notice to the public that hard 101 and puts" olgiment
on the several hours, the guarda passed up return to the camp they would never ne woon de possible, since should they in Hongkong's peculiar case, will living is ahead of us. Too much
and down knocking out teeth, bashing be released.NG, most likely precede it,
adiltianni taxes to add to the large "The other punishment is hang- in heade, and doling out black eyes The secret of Government efficiency mums already being remitted abroad three metres from the ground Al Weimar, they were detrained and azd. Anancial acumen is not to lavish; may be catastrophio. A
by the arm which are. violently forced with blows and kicks into
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