The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
HORROR REIGN
IS CHARGED TO
HITLER REGIME
Refugees Tell Stories of
Terror and Torture in
German Cities.
FLEE IN PANIC TO PARIS
Anti Jewish Campaign Is
Rising in Fury, Say
FugitiveS.

By Uijtcd Press
PARIS, March 23-Fresh tales Of
alleged persecution and torture are
being brought into Franc bv
| frightened refugees streaming across
| the German border ahead of the
anti-Jewish storm under the Hit
lerlte regime on the other side of
the Rhine.
Inc refugees are arriving in in
creaSing numbers. One traveller
described Germany as divided into
nail. This informant said:
The jubilance of half the popu-
lace, flushed with victory and power.
contrasts luridly with the sullen
resentment and hatred of the other
half. Lest the millions of Commun-
lists, Socialists, Liberal Catholics.
Jews and Democrats attempt to
| strike back, the brown terror" was
hurled against enemies of the re-
! gime."
Tells of Panic Start
Describing the start of the
panic" another refugee said:
THE panic started as a rivulet
Just after Hitlers appointment to
the CHARACTERISTIC on Jan. 30. A
few hundred, later thousands, who
knew their names to be on HitlerS
blacklist and recalled his threat
that heads will roll in the sand. be-
gan to trickle out of the country.
AT the same early stage, num-
erous JewiSh-oWned stores started
to sell out, with a view to closing.
The stream of terror grew and has
deluged the country"
The fear which spread was de-
scrlbed by various refugees reach
ing Paris. They said that this fear
resulted in extreme caution in daily
life which, it was admitted, fire.
quently assumed absurd forms.
Afraid to Talk
Another like the others refusing
to permit his name to be used, say
ing he feared reprisalS, said:
People were afraid in restaurants
to talk above whisper. On street
cars, buses and subWays, passengers
talked in muffled voices and usually
lapsed into silence when a Hitlerite
brown shirt appeared.
Diplomats, politicians, and bank
ers quit using the telephone, tapped
by lnformerS, and devoted hours to
paying personal visits to talk to
friends without being overheard.
They would telephone acquaintance
from public booths, using code
names and agreeing to meet at
Alices' or 'Gretchens, yelled desig-
nations for familiar restaurants
Others told of alleged raids on
homes made by men IN brown shirt
Nazi uniforms.
Terror is Spread
They set out between midnight
and dawn, armed and in squads any
where from four to twenty strong"
a refugee said. Their victims might
include not only Jews, but Com
munists, Socialists, Pacif1sts. Cath
olic politicians or merely creditor
whom some Nazi-debtor wished to
intimidate. Arousing their victims
at the points of revolvers, they ter
orized and beat them merciIessly be-
fore kidnapping them and holding
them in Nazi barracks or flats, VIM
dows boarded up.
1 could tell you repugnant, often
unprintable tales Of the fate of some
OF these victims, circulating in Ber-
lin. Even among the small United
States colony there, numerous cases
OF so-called molestations of Ameri-
cans have been confirmed by the
United States consulate"
One of the worst of these pur-
ported atrocities tales was to the
effect that thousands of captives in
German cities and towns have been
herded into barracks and rooms.
lined up against walls, beaten with
lists, truncheons. whips or wire rods
until bleeding, and then forced to
swallow pint to a quart of castor
oil at one time"