Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26

IluEutItu HutiifOuS VI luuOCSut
alike-all over Europe.
This campaign Of terror and
brutality, which Is unprece-
dented in all history and which
even now continues undated, Is
part Of the German plan 10
subiugate the free peoples of
the world"
REPORT ON ABATTOIRS
The foregoing statement pref
aces a 60-page report, released by
the executive office of the Presi-
dent, on the German eXtermina-
ton camps al AuSchwitZ and
Birkenau IN Poland
The report is filled with rank
pictures of the way the NaZi
human abattoirS were operated
Instances were cited in which
victims were impressed into Serv-
lce-1o kill other victims.
Continuing its PREDATORY state
ment. the war refugee board said
il was engaged in desperate
effort 10 save as many as possible
OF HitlerS intended victims"
The report is a composite of
eyewitness accounts by two
young SloVakian Jews who sue
ceeded in escaping in April. 1914.
after spending two years in
Auschwitz and Birkenau, and by
"a non-Jewish Polish ma or, the
only survivor of one group i'm
prisoned at Auschwitz.
GAS, BURN VICTIMS
The two young Jews told of
case where 200 young Slovak Jews
were enlisted in special squad"
employed in gassing and burning
condemned victims. They We're
finally executed by a freshly
arrived squad of 200 Polish Jews
because they planned to mutiny
and escape.
The members OF this special
squad frequently killed one an
other. the two Slovakian Jews
The report estimated that l.
765, 600 Jews had been gasSed at
Birkenau alone between April,
1912, and April. 1914.
The men submitting the eye
witness accounts said that the
Nazis hahitually took incoming
groups. selected small handfuls OF
men and women and sent them
10 camps. and gassed and Gre
mated the others.
At Auschwitz, they related
working conditions were so I'm
eeaeeipably- hard that go TO 35
died daily in each labor group
of 200.
USED FOR EXPERIMENTS
Men and women were used for
medical experiments in "biologi-
cal Laboratories" where even the
windows were walled up" the
narrators said. Many were killed
by the injection of powerful slim
ulants into the heart under the
guiSe of medical treatment,
they reported.
For the trip 10 the mass execu-
tions, the report said, the sick and
the well, all naked. were damned
into trucks. while "all around the
trucks SIS men milled about like
madmen. beating back the howl
ing crowd trying to lean out"
The Polish major said that on
March "a, 1912. he was trans
ported directly from the Monte
lupich Prison in Cracow TO Ausch-
witt unclothed and in a closed
truck. The first thing he saw upon
tumbling out. he recalled, was a
sign reading Work Brings
Freedom"
NONWORKERS KILLED
All who were unable to work
were killed. he said. Jews by
casing and non-Jews by special
treatment or shooting.
Food. he said, consisted mostly
Of stale bread and soup which
had TO be eaten with the hands
because very few owned spoons.
Many tried to escape and others
committed suicide by throwing
themselves on the high voltage
wires surrounding the camps. the
report stated i lifeless body
was brought back. il was propped
up with a sign, Here l Am" If
an eScapee was captured alive. he
was hanged in the presence of the
whole camp.