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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

MRS. LEO SLESINSKI
Polys, and Leo Slesinski, son Of
Mrs. Annette Slesinski, were
married a few days back at st.
Stephens.
COUCKE- JUSTICE
Mrs. Leroy Justice is the for
mer Miss Mary Louise Coucke,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Shirley Burns Send OFF

Club n members gave Shirley
Burns a wonderful send-off at a
gala in her honor at Kathleen
Lundy's house.
Shirley has zooned off 10 Call
ifornia TO visit friends In Holly
wood for the next two months.
Among those at the party
were Lorraine Boyer. past presi-
dent: Rosemary Quinn, Eleanor
Van Loon, Peggy Leavy and Pat
Williamson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

Mrs. EDWARD BARTON
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Olga, and Edward
Barton, son Of the Joseph Bar
tons Of Piedmont avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
PLoTT-WATSON

The engagement Of Miss Judy
Plott and Jack Weldon Watson,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Plans Games

Everell Fisher is planning the
games part of the evening en-
tertainment with Frank Couz-
ems. James Cornell and DR.. E. A.
Christie and Frederick M. Ham
mond will be master Of cere-
monies on the dance floor as
sisted by James A. Sweeney and
Maurice A. Clausen.
Assisting Mr.. MacManus on
the refreshment committee will
be John J. Redmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Scott
Saunders Of Cranbrook road re-
turned this week from a three
weeks trip by motor through
the middle South where they
stayed at Virginia Beach, Will
liamsburg, White Sulphur
Springs and journeyed through
the Great Smoky Mountains.
At present Mr.. and Mrs.
Saunders have as their house
guests Mrs. Ralph Lawrence and
Ruth Herring of ST. Marys, Pa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
With Parents

Mr.. and Mrs. William G.
Lerchen Jr., spent last week
end with Mr.. Lerchens parents.
the w G. Lerchens of Penn
broke drive. They left Tuesday
in separate directions, Bill 10 re
turn 10 Camp Leonard Wood
and Betty 10 Join her parents at
Harbor Beach. where she will
be until Fail. Unless Bills
orders change. they will try TO
find living quarters at Rolla,
Mo, for the Winter.
Barbara and Jeanne Shuell
are keeping house for their
father. Frank w. Shuell Of Lone
Pine road, during Mrs. Shuells
absence with her other daugh-
ter. Patsy. in California.
Jeanne Wiler of Philadelphia
arrived Wednesday 10 visit Bar
bara and Mary Curtis Of Bronx
vile. N. Y. came on Thursday
10 visit Jeanne Shuell. Many
informal parties. mostly around
the Shuell's swimming pool, are
planned for the weekend.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
loomksA- alAarpeping, in til. AM &irmin sham
DAN CUPID'S DIARY

RESCHRE-RARCZEWSKI
ST. Josephat Church was the
setting for the wedding OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

Nelson. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Nelson of Center Line,
Mich.
The marriage took place at
Trinity Lutheran Church.
The engagement OF Ruth L.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

Emery and James M. Dutton
has recently been made known.
The bride-elect is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William L.
Poosch.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Girls Meet
Tuesday at
Pat Kelly

MEMBERS Of Gamma Chap
WI ter Of Kappa Alpha Phi are
planning an exciting meeting
for Tuesday evening at Pat
Kelly's house In Penningtoe
road.
At that time arrangements
will be made to send delegates
10 the annual convention of the
national sorority to be held the
last weekend In August, In Chi
cago.
Delegates will include Pat
Kelly, jeanne Strohm, Jackie
Moran. Elizabeth Fisher and
Jerry Gray.
The girls are looking forward
TO seeing a former member. De-
lores Echer, who now lives In
Chicago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
Bathrieks Are Hosts

Mr.. and Mrs. Hill McAllister
of Nashville, Tenn, are guests
Of their son-in-law and daugh-
ter. Mr.. and Mrs. Donald u.
Bathrick of Puritan road.
Mrs. Edward A. Morris Of
Manor road, left Friday for
Syracuse. N. Y. where she will
visit friends before going to the
Adirondacks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph L. Rick
enbaugh of Brookwood court,
were hosts at supper Sunday
evening for Mr.. and Mrs. O. F.
Achtenhagen of Philadelphia,
who formerly lived in Birming-
ham.
Mrs. Hood Gives Luncheon
Mrs. c. c. Hood of Fairfax
road was hostess at luncheon
Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Ros-
we'll w. Thomas, who is NOV
ing shortly TO Bartlesville, Okla.
Mrs. Thomas was honored at
a large bridge breakfast We'd
nesday at Orchard Lake Coun-
try Club given by her hostess,
Mrs. Malcolm w Welty. with
whom she is staying at present.
Mrs. j. Robert Moseby. Mrs. c.
Hugh Whitelaw and Mrs. Austin
Harmon were also present.
Mrs. John r. st. Clair sur
prised Mr. st. Clair on his BIRTH
day Tuesday evening by steak
roast at their garden grill.
Guests included:
MEssERs AND MEsDAMEs
R G Copeland Arden Yinkey Jr.
Russsl z Sanders Charles T. Carey
Paul 3 Hoffman A. G.. Roewade
and Summer bachelors, p J. Ander-
son, 2. A. schirmer and Robert y.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

Miss Valera Reschke, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reschke Of
Burg road, Centerline. and
Edward Karczewski, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. George Bilich Of
Windber, Pa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
LINN.VAN DORPE

a recent wedding was that Of
Miss Betty Jean Linn. daughter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
DR.. Merton s. Rice perforr

Miss Mary d. Luevano, daugh-
ter of Jose LueVano. became the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10


Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Schulze-
announce the marriage Of their
daughter. Eleanor, and Sidney
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10
csvan Photo

Detroit Sunday Times, August 10, 1941
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

TO countrys great little how about Gen. "Fighn
Joe Wheeler Civil War; Indian fighting and Spanish American
"Fghtin joe was feet height and weighed 100
pounds
Now they have vtamin candy dogs My pup spoiled
enough is He'll candy let him be satisfied with
Other girls how to spell their
are those named Sally who spell it Saie"
DOUGLAS DooLITTLE Advertising man, Also head if.
~ Association of Doolite Families.
There about Il 600 named Dootte the United
States
people but far Doole
has President United States made AAmerican
football team been major league player
professional boxing title been named Miss America
Anonucci The of the WadorfAsoria cigar stand
his parting greetings fails include
word of advice such
long your drinks" "Goodby. Don't
drive than SO per, l hate to lose a customer
To Lou Nova he said
Good luck to YOU Lou that fight wit
get too him."
TELEPHONE operators Father Dtines headquarters
l. all callers with:
This is Heaven. he you"
In 1892 Mrs Agnes Murphy Nuigan received the first
degree of bachelor laws given in New York
State.
Saws Mrs Mullean:
talk a choosing a family
a brains she have both
had long and lawyer and also have
raised seven happy prosperous children"
s0To SETTLE an argument" young
type of lips areth kissabIee"
We regret have information files this subject
present. However instructed horses and women
department TO investigate
only report Operative 92d asked
receponis office lives Greenwich Village about
It and she said
isn't matter of kssable lips but ssable person
appearance shape the
technique that counts"
50 that who said doctor had told her
Wyandotte Mich,
subscriber
A docto one IN cry
FOrty-two years I a m feeling
Articles puportng explain why France fell continue Story
fell could be told nine-letter word:
Communism
Distributed by Kin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

of Columbus (O) Citizen July 25th
~ to Dorothy what she expects
Hitler lot of patriots like Thompson and
Duke Windsor through the last
their hair losing the In their pants
writes column or talks
the believing that they
are al-seeng all the
underneath all that eloquence
is wise and
all fighting with typewriter
Housewife"
CAD Senator Clark probing the
~
'seventy per Of
Thompson Johnson Henry McLemore
and David Lawrence are he offenders!
Winchel the best, ha ha
SsNJOULTON, Alabama Wnchel: This Is the only
4'i time in my 1 presumed outside
w erse with a letter Of praise or blame
provide living for my family
and bring America good Amerl
listening to for years
cannot refrain rom speaking n word of appreciation
whose ancestors have fought In all the
the Revolution down.
French Germa an knows what else maternal
side. my : but blood Is mixture OF
a he o Europe. "A American
that thankful for like yourself
smaller fry
receive because small fry.
THANK you YOU This from the bottom
of keep shining matter
how many people o flowers.
do wish work Just wanted
YOU TO folks appreciate work and
YOUR e--C. {. VI"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
On the Side
By E. V. Durling

No nan ~ iromnu born,
COWARD or brorC.
Can sbhoJ his destiny.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

WOTTA chu-chu!
w Remember those funny
little locomotives we used TO
watch, bug-eyed, as kids?
Not much larger than husky
wheelbarrows, yet they para
lived our young imaginations
How would we have felt, !
wonder. if we'd seen a monster
like Big Boy" ?
Five hundred and ninety-six
tons of pull power! Biggest
hunk of animated steel that
ever hit the rails!
They've sent it out to tackle
that tough stretch on the
Union Pacific between Ogden,
Utah, and Lara m ie, Wye.
Hitherto. they've always used
double headers to. haul the
S0-car freights over those 427
miles. Now Big Boy" will
handle the stint alone. Some
baby!
And here's the greater mar
vel. II isn't just Big Boys"
size. though that's plenty to
remember. But six men could
and did start this metal
Gargantua on its initial heave
West. without straining a
muscle How come?
Just by pushing, lightly, al
that. Didn't even need 10
shift their cigars. No more
effort than a youngster would
use in rolling a ball. Secret
of it?
Just a matter Of balance.
SO perfectly was this me-
chanical mountain adjusted
part TO part. that six men of
ordinary strength could easily
manipulate 1000 horsepower
Of might.
COMPARED with any me-
~ chanical phenomenon of
our youth. that's miracle.
Yet they're performing scores
of equal miracles today, using
material far more fractions
than freight cars. Using man
power. mind-power as we'll as
horsepower. And. again, it's
all a matter of balance.
Suppose they'd made big
Boy" a bit too heavy in some
part a bit too bulky =.
given some section too much
pressure or tension in relation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
It's All Matter Of Balance
Even With Human BEINGS
By Elsie Robinson

to the whole load? What
would have happened? 1t
would have looked the same.
But there would have been
A vast difference in per-
formance.
Neither six nor so men
could have sent IT lightly on
lis way. Because it would
have lacked balance. There'd
have been a drag waste
motion badly distributed
energy. Sooner or later,
crack-up.
That's what happens in a
poorly balanced machine, and
by the same token, that's
what happens in a poorly
balanced mind.
Happiness. efficiency, sue
cess arc as much "a matter OF
balance" in the life of a man
as they are in the life OF a
machine.
OUR human lives are COM
" posed of various elements,
diversified experiences. just
as a machine is composed Of
diversified parts.
And all of those elements
and experiences are useful,
provided they are properly
balanced in relationship to
each other.
But let any part be too small
or too large and the whole
ensemble will flop.
Take any life you know
your own, for example. II
you've led the average ex-
istence you have experienced
the normal assortment of joys
and sorrows, hopes and humili-
atoms, victories and defeats,
losses and gains.
All of which are perfectly
natural and useful experiences
if you give each one its
proper place in your daily
program.
But suppose you put too
much emphasis on some old
grief or failure7 Suppose you
carry an overload of self-pity
or conceit?
Then, no matter how hard
you struggle, your life will 60
askew and you'll waste Is
per cent of your effort because
you'll be out of balance.
opynght, isii, King Features synd., fs>
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

in Switzerland. telling him
boastfully at what range he
could kill man with a newly
introduced machine gun.
The former Schoolmate's
girl friend was a German and
a Nazi. She had. read the
letter. She had had ii photo
graphed in a Nazi spy station
in the Swiss town of Zug. The
photostat had reached the
Gestapa
The soldier was arrested and
charged with betraying mill
tary secrets. The special
tribunal, after a half-hour
session, sentenced him TO life
Imprisonment.
Toward evening the train
began TO move. 1t rolled
through the night, crammed
with a hapless human cargo.
Every night, under cover of
darkness, Such prison trains
rolled through the German
land.
The guards in the corridors
were friendly. They brought
us water when we asked for
il, they gave us tobacco and
cigaret paper They did not
interfere when the soldier in
our compartment began to
tap against the steel partitions
to communicate with prison
ers in the adjoining boxes.
The guards even allowed us
to shout through the walls.
Talk your FILL" one of them
said. you won't do much
talking I'm PlOetzensee, except
to yourself"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

patriotic of all Americans, will not take 30
many cracks at the Communists any more.
%. NJ"
Constant subscribers and listeners
must think O. NJ. is deaf
CENATOR WHEELER in his Billings,
~ Mont, speech:
"America must have free speech 20
survive. Many of MS i'm the America First
Committee have had our voices muffled In
various places In the land. Voltaire said:
Il may not agree with everything you say.
but 1 will defend with my life your right
TO say it,
(Thc owners of Montana's three big
radio outlets still bar our voice on their
stationS)
He has not yet protested against this
first "Blackout"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
By JAN VALTM

For a few yards the truck
moved slowly over cobbles. 1t
halted. It's door swung open.
"Alles raus." We were in
the yard of Ploetzensee.
We stood in the sunlight
with blinking eyes. Red brick
buildings with hundreds of
barred windows doomed all
around. They were enclrcled
by a patchwork of yards and
gardens. A brick wall 18 feet
high shut off the grounds from
the outside world.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
ARMED GUARDS

ARMED GUARDS
Guards in gray uniforms
lined the inside of the wall at
intervals of so yards. Each of
them had an army carbine in
his hands, a truncheon in a
pocket fastened 10 his trouser
leg, and bayonet and pistol in
his belt.
Low round machine gun tur-
rets topped the roof of each
cell block. From a tall white
mast in the front yard a mon
strous swaStika flag curved
lazily in the breeze.
A stiff backed lieutenant
lined us up in the yard. AS
he called each newcomers
name, the one addressed had
10 report his crime and his
sentence. Possessing fire.
arms" Attempted assas-
sination' High treason
-. High treason -. High
treason.
So it went. High treason"
might have been anything
from listening 10 Moscow
radio broadcasts to running
an underground printing press
or dumping sand into the ma
chinery@ of a tank factory.
-Four years" -. Ten years"
Fifteen years. -. Life
Death
The prisoners spoke without
emotion. The lieutenant
checked their reports as
though he counted buttons.
In a rambling basement hall
we were stripped naked.
Guards Inspected every inch
OF our bodies for hidden con-
traband.
COLD SHOWERS
A young physician raced
past us and pronounced us
healthy. Then we were
given a cold shower and
prison clothes. The clothes
were handed out without re-
gard to the individuals size
except shoes.
Each man received a suit of
wooden underwear, a pair of
ancient gray socks, hobnaled
shoes, pair of shapelesS
mules, a blue handkerchief, a
neck cloth, black cotton
uniform and a round black
cap. The right sleeve of each
g jacket carried a bright yellow
stripe.
The prisoners who handed
out the clothes worked like
automatons. But for the
snapped orders of the guards
not word was spoken. After
each prisoner had been shorn
of his hair, and had written a
short history of his life, he
was escorted to his cell by
taclturn guard.
Solitary confinement pre-
dominates in Ploetze nSeo.
There are 1900 solitary cells
in four large cell blocks. The
cells range in four tiers.
Newly strung wire nets be-
tween the tiers discourage
suicide by diving head first to
the ground floor
SMALL WINDOW
Each cell has a small win
dow high in the wall which
faces the yard, a steel door
with a spy hole, an open toilet
stand. a collapsible iron bed,
a work table, a wooden stool,
and a rack for wash bowl,
plate and sRoon.
Knives andforkS are taboo.
There is steam heat, electric
light and running water in
each cell.
During his first week in
Ploetzensee the prisoner is
left alone. He sees no one.
He has no books to read and
no work TO do. He does not
leave his cell for exercise.
Between z a. m. and 7 p. m.
he is not permitted to sit
down.
During the other II hours
he is not permitted to bulge
from his bed. Those who
violate this rule are hand
cuffed TO the bed, hands and
feet, the window of their cell
is closed and the steam heat
turned on TO the limit. In all
the cells the radiators are in
stalled beneath the beds.
Ito Be CoDtinued)
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10 communicate WIFI pl lSOll-
ers in the adjoining boxes.
The guards even allowed us
to shout through the walls.
Talk your fill" one of them
said. "You won't do much
talking I'm PlOetzensee, except
to yourself"
MEETS COMRADE
Across the corridor from
our compartment a man sat
alone in his steel coffin. |
could not see his face. But
he had a deep, pleasant voice.
He gave his name as Robert
Gerdes, a Communist, 20 years
old.
where are you going?" I
asked.
"Ploetzensee," said the
voice.
How many years."
Just a few days, comrade,"
he answered. They're going
to cut my head OFF,"
There was a silence. The
wheels hammered beneath us.
Someone from another COM
partment asked:
Death ."
Death" Gerdes answered
! gave him my name, the
length of my sentence.
Tell me what you wish our
friends outside to know" l
said.
II cannot tell you much"
Gerdes said. There are too
many ears here. 1 was ar
rested In May, 1885. i ran a
broadcasting station on a
ship on the Baltic Sea d..
They came out with sub
chaser and got me never
mind the consultations. Tell
our friends I'm not sorry ~
The conversation Jagged. In
the cages around Gerdes the
prisoners were depressed. The
young soldier broke the spell.
Two cages away from the
condemned man was a girl.
She had kept silent for a long
time. She. too, was alone.
Hello, Puppe," the soldier
shouted. Have heart"
GIRL RESPONDS
The girl laughed.
81 have a heart" she cried.
wait second. I'll make II
bigger, big enough for you to
come in"
I'm FL" the soldier crowed,"
land 5 foot 10. How old are
you?"
"Twenty-four," the girl
called back. What's your
name?"
"Albrecht-and yours ?"
"Gretchen."
what did you do?"
81 was smuggler-and
you?"
Il betraye military
secrets" the soldier yelled.
II am a soldier" And then.
Hey. Gretchen! What did you
smuggle?"
"Other peoples money and
d NOR DIS Cologne TO
Amsterdam"
"Why didn't you stay In
Amsterdam" the soldier
yelled. .
Again the girl gave
tinkling laugh.
II was too greedy" she
said. IL came back to smuggle
some more"
"What did they give you?"
-Four years for economic
treason" she replied slowly.
That's not bad" the soldier
said. II wish 1 had only four
years. Then I'd meet you
when I come out"
GUARDS CHUCKLE
In the corridor the guards
laughed softly.
Guard. Guard" the girl
cried suddenly.
what do you WANT"
ASK the man two doors
away -. Gerdes the one
who's going TO die ask
him II he'd like to be with
me-"
The condemned comrades
voice said steadily;
II wouldn't mind"
The hammering of the
wheels became slower. The
locomotive shrieked. The girl
pleaded with the guards.
BE decent" she said.
you've once been young
yourself. Let me go To him."
The guards talked to each
other. In the steel boxes the
prisoners cute d: Let
Gerdes visit Gretchen"
"Shut up, you dogs" a
guard roared.
Herr Wachtmeister )"
the girl pleaded.
"Es gent NIGHT" the guard
rlmbled. Its against the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
Waller. Wincheu
On Broadway
The Firing Squad
rads Mark Registered. Copyright. 1871.

The Firing Squad
sTIHE coumnist said Toronto editorial April 49, 1941
speaks falls by the general
reputation brance acquired by his writings
long period time"
o editor of the Dayton (o) Herald, July
3rd:
I'll bet Walter Winchell think he Is the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
CHAPTER 90

There was small grill in
the closet door. Through il /
Smelled the wondrous aroma
of pea soup. Imprisoned
doXieS ran around freely in
the corridor. bearing brooms
and mops and stacks of tin
bowls. AT last | was called.
Keep calm, now" l told my
self.
A young Elite Guard handed
me a book. 1t was Mein
Kampf.
when YOU have read IT," he
said, give IL TO the prison
library in PiOetzensee."
was startled. "PIoetzen-
see?" l asked.
yes, you're going to
PloetZensee Priso the
trooper said.
/ was marched through
filthy corridors 10 another
part of the cellar dungeons.
Here a long line of men in
Crumpled civilian suits, most
of them carrying cardboard
boxes under their arms, was
assembled.
"Step into line" I was told.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
PRISONERS ARRIVE

New patches of prisoners
arrived from various outlying
prisons. Through the air hole
i could see them march along
the platform; there were men
and women of all ages. politi-
cal convicts bound for the
numerous prisons in and
around Berlin.
l soon got acquainted with
my three companions. One, an
elderly interior decorator was
a renegade; one day he had
become drunk and had walked
through a crowded street,
giving the Hitler salute and
Shoutings
Hell Captain Roehm~
For this he received three
years. The other was a small
merchant from Bremerhaven,
a rotund Nether-SaXon who
had assembled his friends TO
listen TO anti-Hitler phono-
graph records which Socialist
sailors had Struggled in from
England; one of the mer-
chants friends, after the
police had raided a home adj
joining his own, had become
frightened, and betrayed the
merchant to the Gestapo.
He had received a sentence
of eight years under the new
terror laws of 1884. The third
of my companions was a sol
der, an exuberant and reck-
less youth. He had written a
letter 10 a former schoolmate
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24

("Whae,er preordaned from eternity said
Marcus 4urclus boast! said Shakespeare "Who
AN control his fate:")
OUARTERMASTERs department Of United States Army has
W announced
future, fudge the soldiers viii get five
Individually wrapped pieces candy consisting of assorted lime
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-24
GIVEN WARNING

~ AilANA bbeAlAl lftli hNhs
prisoner transport TO Ber-
lin-Ploetzensee - listen: Who
ever attempts To escape dur
ing the transport will be shot.
Links um! Abteilung,
marsch-.."
We tramped along gloomy
corridors into the yard, where
the vans were waiting. They
brought us TO the station.
"Ploetzensee." l thought.
What does IL mean:"
PloetZensee was Hitler'S
central slaughterhouse. All
anti-Nazis condemned to death
by the so-called Peoples
Courts were brought to Ber-
lin from all parts of Ger
many TO be beheaded in the
yard of Ploetzensee Prison.
At the Hamburg Haupt-
bahnhof the prison train was
waiting. The train was long
The coaches had no ordinary
windows. but grilled air holes
high in their sides.
A narrow corridor ran
through the length of the car
To the right and left of it
were small compartments with
steel doors. Electric lights
burned brightly.
Some Of the compartments
had room for only one pris-
oner; others Were fitted to ac-
commodate two and four.
Guards and prisoners alike
called it the Henkerszug-
the hangman's train. To-
) gether with three others I was
herded into a four-man COM
partment. We waited a long
tiy11n