The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
Walter WincIleu
 10 Neze, York
HUMANITY vS. THE GERMAN
 PEnPIE

HUMANITY vS. THE GERMAN
 PEOPLE
 Soft peace peddlers who want aeniency for the Germasn would clasp blood-stained hands that in five years have slaughtered more snnocents than were killed in all the worlds wars up to 139 Every crime devised by all the degenerate and barbarous people of history has been repeated hundreds of times by the NaziS-murder, sac rilege, torture, rape And some people talk of 8 negotiated peace.
 Should we, negotiate with the storm Troopers in Danzig who tore out the tongue of MT. Lendzion, a deputy to the Polish Parliamentp
 Or with the German soldiers who murdered six Polish farmers and 20 women and children in the village of Wisniewo by binding their hands and feet and then running tanks over them? Or the Na2ls in Breukelen in Holland, who tied five young boys to their car and dragged them through the streets until they were dead? .. Or the members of the GeStapo who stripped Helene Vagliano, in a prison at Villa Montfleury, Cannes, inflicting dozens of burns on her body with red-hot pokers-while her mother, purposely thrown into a nearby cell, listened to her screams?
 How many towns have the Nazis wiped off the map? {. The world was shocked by Lidice and Lev zsaky = where the Germans tor tured and slaughtered the total male populations of two towns :. 1900 innocent Czechs executed for sshaving approved of Heydrich's as- sassination" because the NaziS had to cover up the fact that Heydrich was killed with the assistance of his own associates in the Gestapo These well-known mass executions were followed by even more brutal terrorism in every occupied coun- try The entire village of Ber- kel. in South Holland, burned as 3 reprisal and its 1900 inhabitants left homeless All males between 18 and 40 in the Polish town of Pobiedziska tortured for hours, beaten with rifle butts and made to do exercises" in the mud and rain before many of them were shot in the back Nearly the whole Of the male population of Piatek, in Poland. slaughtered by German troops because some children had unScrewed the wheel of a military car All the inhabitants of Wawer, also in Poland, dragged from their beds at 2 o'clock in the morning and told that every tenth person would be shot The de- based Nazi sense of humor which arranged that 8 woman in each household would decide which of the men was to be executed =. :. Distcmo, the Greek Lidice, where SS men caroused from house to house, footing, slaughtering, and burning until 1000 of the towns 1,200 popu- lation lay dead.
 German thoroughness adds new sadiGtic touches to mediaeval tor tlre methods The worst atroci- ties originate in torture school for training GeStapo men, in the PosnAn suburb of Lawica !. .. Rou- tine at Lawica is to bet every irl- coming prisoner unconscious, drench him with cold water, and beat him again Students learn to briises prisoners eyes with riding whip To arouse an unconscious vic- tim by forcing 8 stick into his mouth and twisting it :. Game of Rabbit" gives Gestapo recreation of shooting at prisoners who are forced to run in series of leaps down corridors Graduates of this and other schools are experts in all forms of brutality Like the Germans .i Wolsztyn County, Poland, who forced two men into an icy pond, beating them on the head with poles until they drowned
 and after ards having their bodies fished out and hung on road side cross Or the jailers at Vught concentration camp in Hol- land, who had victims stand on tkeir toes on specially designed shaky blocks with a rope around their neck, frantically trying to steady themselves to avoid slow strangulation.
 The Master Eace' has undertak- en the worst religious prosecutions since early Christians were fed to lions at Roman circuSes. Stagger- ing figures of Jews 5urr.ed, gassed, tortured, maimed, have shocked all civilized peoples almost im- n1lnizing tn em to further shock 1 1,I65 ,000 slaughtered in single camp (BirkenaW in two years more than the combined total popu- 1ati0ns of N. Mexico. N. Dakota and Utah 1.500000 murdered in Oswiecim-more than the total of Maine, Vermont and Wyoming
 1,300,O00 Jews herded into II gl1ettps in Poland = before we had declared war v. Over 300,000 fled from Nazi brutality before 1889 o50,000 driven from homes by the end of 1942 Over 2 1-2 mill lion systematically eXterminated in murder cells at Tremblinka-more than the combined populations of Arizona, Nevada, Mont, Idaho, Del, and Ne W Hampshire.
 Let us not kid ourselves that only alle Gestapo commit atrocities .l Most of the IS million Nazi soldiers try to join the Gestapo where tor 1ll1e is speciality .. Many copy Cestapo tactics to show their abil-