Evening star., 1945-04-27
Committee 10 Draft
Report on Atrocities
Named by Editors
BY EDWARD KENNEDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent,

AssOSIatcu IICSS WuE SUTTcSpOuQcnt.
PARIS, April 27.-Eighteen Amer
lean publishers and editors who
came to France on Gen. Eisen-
howers invitation to see the horrors
of German concentration camps
returned to Paris last night from
the notorious Buchenwald camp
and said they would like to visit
others.
Gen. Eisenhower told them that
volumes of heretofore unrevealed
evidence of Nazi brutality and mur-
der of civilian and military per-
sonnel would be made available to
them.
The editors named a committee
consisting of Julius Ochs Adler of
the New York Times, Stanley High
OF Readers Digest, and Malcolm
Bingay of the Detroit Free Press
to draft q report on their conclu-
sions concerning German atrocities.
Lunch at Weimar.
After arriving in Paris earlier this
week, the editors were flown to
Weimar, where they had lunch at
the famous Elephant House, -
which had just been taken over
by the American Army.
Then they were taken to Buch-
enwald, where they spent three
hours. Their guide was Kurt Cat
nor, formerly a high officer in the
Austrian Army, who spent several
months as a prisoner in the camp.
They went through the main part
of the camp where 10000 prisoners
are still being kept because no pro-
visions have yet been made to move
them. These prisoners, however, are
free in theory and are being well
fed.
The editors also visited the camps
hospitals, which were established
by the prisoners themselves with
prisoner who are still on
the job. They saw several corpses
carried out-bodies of prisoners who
died even after liberation as the
result of malnutrition and other
causes.
They also saw the crematorium,
the SIS elite Guard) execution
chamber, children's quarters and the
orothel.
Survey Too Hurried.
But they said they were rushed
through the camp too quickly and
would like more of chance to study
conditions. Even more, they said,
they would like to remain until some
new camp is liberated so that they
would have a chance to get into it
Immediately after the liberation and
see what conditions are like before
The camp is cleaned up.
B. M. McKelway of The Washing
ton Star said there was no doubt in
the minds of the editors that atroci-
ties had been committed. but it was
hard to gauge the exact extent
other editors agreed with him. as did
correspondents who had been there
for some time.
The editors started of on a flight
over the narrow corridor separating
the American and Russian armies,
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arriving SO they did not see as much
as they had hoped before darkness
fell.
Talk With Generals.
After visiting the camp, the editors
talked to Gen. Eisenhower and Gen.
Bradley, commander of the 18th
Army Group.
Gen. Eisenhower said that the
written evidence of German inhu-
name treatment of captives which
they would be permitted to see con-
tanned evidence compiled by Su-
preme Headquarters and until now
restricted information.
A party of members of Congress,
who also came overseas to view
evidence of German atrocities and
particularly the Buchenwald camp,
was received today by Gen. Charles
de Gaulle. The delegation was pre-
sented by Ambassador Jefferson
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