The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-25

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Count Helldorf, however, Com
mandant of Berlin, who personally
superintendent the barracks and had
the prisoners led out before him,
gave orders for fresh beatings. He
was particularly interested in rout-
ing out Jews He made the prisoners
show their genitals and asked
Your fathers religion?"
Evangelical
Your mother So"
Catholic"
Him, you're typical, Jewish half
caste. Your mother went with Jews"
Jews Beaten Most
The Jews amongst the prisoners
had to suffer most, for they were the
Iaost cruelty beaten; every day they
were taken to execution" placed
against a wall, and revolver shots
were fired over their heads to brighten
them.
All this time there was in the bar
racks a young boy of fourteen, who
mad been imprisoned because it was
desired to obtain from him the adj
ress Of his mother who was in hid
irg.
From other prisoners the Nazis
wanted to discover the addresses of
officials or of houses in which secret
presses, explosives or arms were to
be found. OF all the prisoners only
one divulged the names and ad-
dresses of comrades. He also was in
my cell. No one spoke to him.
On the day before was brought
back from Spsndau to the Police
Heaquarters, everyone was brought
hlther from the Nazi barracks. They
were obliged to go on foot; many OF
them were unshod, and they had to
hold their hands above their heads
and to march thus through the streets
at the corner of the F'riedrichstrasse
and the Inter den Linden one of the
| prisoners threw himself under a pass
ing bus, and was picked up with mis-
legs cut off. At the Police Head.
quarters the most severely wounded
were baadaged and the prisoners were
locked up in groups in different cells
The light in our cell was not ex-
| tinguiShed, as fresh prisoners were
constantly being brought in. AS there
! were already more than seventy there
they had to lie on the floor, there
not being enough plank beds. Amongst
| others there were also some social
democratic Shop-steWards from Z
tramway repairing depot, who hac
been arrested in the midst of theil
work by some Storm Troops led by al
officer. There was also in our cell {
uniformed national socialist who haC
opened his collecting tin and usec
the money for himself; he had beer
arrested and placed with the politica
prisoners.
Until late into the night the in
4 jured surrounded me and oyerwhelm
cd me with their stories; my nerve
were racked to the utmost and
jumped up and paced to and ire
Leave him in peacel" Soneon,
shouted, and came up to me. Yol
must understand us. We have hat
terrible experiences. In my case, TO
instance, they !" and he thereupoi
began to rslaUe fresh story.
They had, 1t Is true, lived through
in four or five days what / had t,
pass through in the space of few
hours; but they had had to expert
ence it in person, while l only hat
to listen to it.
Not one Of these workers vino hat
been SO inhumanly mishandled, no
one-with a single exception-had be
trayed anything; not one of then
spoke without hate and contempt o
this kind of enemyl not one had los
his faith in the cause for which h
had been made to suffer so terribly.
At midday on the 18th of Marcl
/ was called from the cell and in
formed that was to be expelled owe
the frontier. Only for a minute di
return, to fetch my coat, IRE
Front" said in farewell, and "Re
Front" sixty voices answered me.
civilian policeman escorted me t
the Anhalter Station: he had tn
money which had been paid for me
as well as my watch, my fountain
pen and my knife in his pocket, H
travelled with me to Bodenbact
where he delivered me over TO tn
officials of the Czech frontier polio
in sTturn for a receipt, and handle
over to me my things and the re
r1ainder OF my ys,cstsg, fresm I trvf
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