The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-05-31
HUMAN FERTILIZER.
Germans Are Even Utilizing the
Bodies of Their Dead.

That the Germans are sysematical-
ly collecting the corpses of their dead
and shipping them to rendering plants
where. they are subjected to process
of recovering the oil and fats for use
as fertilizers seems to be fact es-
tablished by American, Belgium,
Dutch, and finally by German testi-
mony. The London and Paris news
papers accept the story after careful
investigation and print editorials on
it.
The Belgium newspaper L'Indepen-
dence Beige of April 10 prints an &C
count of the industry. The London
Times reproduced the Belgium pa
per's story, but it was so horrible
that it seemed unbelievable, even in
England
From Berlin Newspaper.
The Times later presented evidence
to prove it's truth. printing photo
graphs, facsimiles Of news article
in the Berlin LoEal Anzeiger Of April
10, which referred to the corpse es-
ploitation establishment" it says:
That fats here are turned into
lubricating oils and everything else
is ground down in the mill, the bones
into powder, which is used for mix
ing with pigs food and as manure.
Nothing can be permitted to go to
waste"
A dispatch from Rome. dated April
81. printed in the Washington Post,
says:
Pope Benedict has been Mortified
and has expressed deep indignation
over the reports of Germany's system
of rendering fats and fertilizers from
the bodies of soldier dead. according
to an article printed today by the
newspaper Infermazione. ."
A cable dispatch to the New York
Sun from London says:
That the Germans are systemat-
ically collecting the corpses of their
dead and shipping them to render
ing plants where they are subject
ed to a process for fertilizers seems
incontestibly borne out by the latest
information. -. -'-....
when such stories were first pub
lished they were generally disbeliev-
ed. American consuls formerly in
Germany arrived here after their re-
call, said the Germans were distilling
nitrogiycerine from the corpses and
so obtaining the essentials of explos-
ives.
Boast OF Efficiency.
1T now develops that the German
censors are allowing the German pa
pers to print accounts of and even to
boast about the efficiency which al
lows nothing to be wasted
Following is the account of this
modern industry, product Of Ger
many's boasted efficiency and "kul,
tur," as printed by the Belgian news
paper Independence Beige, repro,
duced in the London Times and ca
bled to the New York Sun:
I'VE have long known that the
Germans stripped their dead behinc
the firing lines, fastened them into
bundles of three or four bodies witt
iron wire and then dispatched these
bundles to the rear. Until recent,
trains laden with the dead were SEM
to a town near Liege and point neal
Brussels. Much surprise was causec
by the fact that of late this traftz>
has proceeded in the direction of &c
rolstein, and that on each wagon wa:
written D. A. V. G.
German science is responsible FOL
the idea of the formation OF the
Deutsche Abfalls Verwertungsgesell
schaft. or German Offal Utilization
Company, Ltd, a dividend earning
company, with a capital of s24O,000
the chief factory has been construct
ed 1000 yards from the railway con
Meeting St.Vith, near the Belgian
frontier. with Gerolstein, in the lone
ly and little frequented Eiel district
southwest of Coblentz.
Guarded by Live Wires.
THE factory deals especially Will
the dead from the western front. II
the results are as good as the com
pany hopes, another will be estab'
lished on the eastern front. The fac
tory is invisible from the railway and
is deep in the forest country. Elec'
trically charged wires surround it
A special double track leads to 1t
The works are about 700 feet long
40 feet broad and the railway runs