Evening star., 1933-11-06
UPHOLDS CHARGES
OF NAz| CRUELTY
Former Berlin Correspondent
Draws Gloomy Picture
of Conditions.

A gloomy picture of Germany's plight
under the tyranny Of the Hitler regime
was drawn last nigh. by Edgar A.
Mowrer, former correspondent Of the
Chicago daily News In Berlin, at the
Jewish Community Center in Washing
ton.
Mr.. Mowrer. who was compelled to
leave Germany because of his out
spoken criticism of the Hitler regime.
gave a lecture sponsored by the Center
and the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church.
The lecturer had lived in Germany
10 years and had witnessed the strug-
gle of the German people to get out OF
the difficult situation in which they
found themselves after the war. Until
the Hitler administration came into
power Mowrer had been champion of
the German cause, although at times
friendly critical. He frequently OBJ
jected to certain phases of their po-
litical activities, out was enthusiastic
over their intellectual achievements.
1t Is the moral bankruptcy, Mowrer
stated last night. which is undoubtedly
situation.
OuAAh us ShuNssy otVsA<S'
1t is heartbreaking, he stated, to see
the German Studentum, a tremendous
organization which has been fighting
the foes of freedom, whether Germans
or foreigners, for more than hundred
years, dance like wild Cherokees around
a bonfire in which the works of the
great German intellectuals we're fed to
the flames.
Mowrer confirmed the unbelievable
stories coming out of Germany about
the unheard-of cruelty of the Naxis.
They would not be surprising, Mowrer
stated, II they h ppened in China or in
Afghanistan, but 1t certainly Is bewilder-
ing to see them happen in the country
where Goethe, Schoppenhauer and Kant
were born.
THE German revolution may not be
the greatest that ever happened" he
said. "but 1t certainly is the meanes
ever seen"
THE concentration camps are the
scene of horrors which cannot be de-
scribed in print. The camp at Orani-
enburg, especially, in charge Of half
demented NaZi, is worthy Of an inves-
tigation by psychiatrists.
Stay Fraught With Danger.
Mowers stay in Germany, during the
last few months, was fraught with
dangers. He was threatened and for G
while the NaN headquarters had In
mind to send him a few storm troopers
to discipline him"
But the NaZi foreign Office, un-
doubtedly prevailed upon the storm
troopers to leave him alone, since they
were trying to get him out Of the coun-
try automatically"
DR.. Luther, the counsellor of the Ger
man embassy In Washington, Mowrer
stated last night, called upon the State
Department and urged them TO get
Mowrer out of Germany because his life
was threatened. He also is said to have
called on the Washington correspondent
OF the Chicago Daily News, asking him
to advise the publisher of the News to
recall his correspondent at once.
Alarmed by these threats, the Amer
ican embassy In Berlin advised Mowrer
to leave as soon as possible. Mowrer.
who had already been transferred tc
Toxic, left. but not without playing a
last trick on the Nan. He promised to
leave If the Mani government would re-
lease the Berlin correspondent of the
Vienna Neue Erie Presse, q Jew. who
had been sent to q concentration camp
The Germans, glad to- get rid O,
Mowrer, released the correspondent and
Mowrer left -