The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-18

tVHtually every law and custom ol the civilized world and the indict- ment named the Nazi party as "ths central core of the common plan oE conspiracy'' for world domination.
 During that conspiracy the ln- dictment charged that: .
 1. The Nazis "exhorted" Japan to attack the United States to weak end the Allies.
 2. Germany was guilty of 64 vio- lations of 26 international treaties she signed, dating back to the Hague Convention of 1899. 1 3, American prisoners of war were murdered in Normandy and in the Ardennes in 1s44, and were starved and beaten in prison of war camps in 1943, 1944 and 1945, 1. Humiliation of the Jews was "an off1cial state policy" 5. Hitler and his gang recognized after the bloodless conquests of Aus tria and Czechoslovakia that fur ther successes" could not be achieved without war.
 The indictment painted this pic- ture of what the Nazis did to Rus sia:
 "On the territory of the Soviet Union, the NaZi conspirators des- troyed or severely damaged 1,7i0 cities and more than 10000 villages and haInlets, more than 6,000000 buildings and made homeless about 25,000,000 persons 
 A27 Museums Destroyed
 'The Germans destroyed 427 (Russian) museums .. the losses suffered by the coal mining industry alone in the Stalingrad region region amount to 2,000, 900 900 rubles ($l ,000, ,000,000). Stealing of huge dimensions and the destruction of industrial, cultural and other prop erty was typlfled in Kiev. More than 100000 books, magazines and manuscripts and a large number of artistic productions and valuables were stolen and carried away"
 The Germans destroyed 1870 Greek Orthodox churches, 237 Ro- man Catholic churches, 67 chapels, and 532 synagogues in Russia, and destroyed the estate and museum of Leo Tolstoy."
 The section of the indictment on war crimes against humanity con- tained these excerpts:
 "Of 228,000 French political and racial deportees in concentration camps, only 28,000 survived.
 Methods of extermination were bad treatment, psuedo-scientiflc ex- periments Sterilization of women at Auschwitz and at Ravensbruck, study of evolution of cancer of the womb at Auschwitz, of typhus at Buchenwald, atomical research at Natzweiller, heart injections at Buchenwald, bone grating and muscular excisions at Ravensbruck, gas chambers, gas wagons and crematory ovens
 Beginning with June, l943, the Germans carried out measures to hide the evidence of their crimes. They eXhumed and burned corpses and they crushed the bones with machines and used them for fer tilizer.
 Tn the Ganov Camp .exterm- nation methods included disem- boweling, freezing of human beings In tubs of water. Mass Shootings took place to the accompaniment of music of an orchestra recruited from the persons interned.
 "At the beginning of l944 in Bielo Russia, the Germans estab- lished three concentration camps without shelters to which they com- mitted tens of thousands. They brought many people to these camps from typhus hospitals intentionally for spreading the disease.
 Tn the Stalingrad region more than 50,000 persons were killed and tortured. One hundred and thirty nine women had their arms pain fully bent backward and held by wires. Froh some their breasts had been cut of and their ears, fingers and toes had been amputated.
 l44.0O0 Exterminated
 "In the Crimea peaceful citizens were gathered on barges, taken out to sea and drowned, over l44,000 persons being eXterminated in this manner.
 "1n Dnepropetrovsk, the Nazis shot or threw alive into great ravine ll,000 women, old men and children.
 "The Nazi cvonspirators merci- lessly destroyed even children. They killed them with their parents in groups and alone. They killed them in children's homes and hospitals, burying the living in the graves, throwing them into flames, stabbing them with bayonetS, poisoning them, conducting experiments upon them. extracting their blood for the use of the German army
 "In April, l945, of l2,0oo internees evacuated from BuchenWald, 400 only were still alive when the column arrived near Re- gensburg."
 NaEl criminals were not confined to civilians but, in violation Of all treaties, were directed at prisoners Of war. The indictment said:
 Members of the armed forces of the countries with whom Germany was at war were frequently murder ed while in the act of surrendering frequently prisoners captured on the Western Front were obliged to march to the camps until they completely collapsed. Some of them walked more than 600 kilometers (about 375 miles) with hardly any food.
 Tn military jails the food was so insufficient that the men lost more than 33 pounds in a few weeks. In May 1922, one loaf of bread only | was distributed in Rva-Ruska to each group of 35 men.
 Soviet prisoners of war were murdered en masse on order from the high command"
 To prove the Nazl conspiracy in court No. i of the indictment, the history of the Nazi movement was I.. AnkaA aRkao Haklsa- ttaaea