Evening star., 1945-07-05
Atrocities
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creased the grand total attendance
to 29,028.
The exhibit of atrocity pictures,
prepared by the ST. Louis Post
Dispatch, is being shown here under
joint auspices of The Star and the
Post Dispatch.
The moving pictures were run
almost continuously during the day
in the Coolidge auditorium, draw
ing capacity crowds.
Not Pleasant Pictures.
While the photomurals remain at
the Library OF Congress for at least
another 10 days. the motion pictures
60 out into the neighborhood build
ings with a new Introductory mes
sage declaring frankly They are
not pleasant pictures"
The message coming from the
screen by voice while a picture of
the Capitol and the flag are shown
explains the pictures are not being
shown because they are unpleasant.
or to satisfy morbid curiosity. They
are being shown, 1t Is explained "in
the belief that our people here at
home, the fathers and the mothers
and the loved ones of the men who
have helped TO win the war against
Germany, will. in seeing them, OBJ
tain a better idea OF why this war
had to be. fought.
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that the pictures themselves teach a
grim lesson against the horrors of
war.
And they are shown In the be-
lief that those who see them will
realize the extent to which the
German people, in giving way to
race hatred, the persecution of mi
norities and the lust for conquest,
debased themselves along with the
victims of their concentration
camps
Tive Ex-Priscners Speak.
Two more former prisoners of
the Germans at the notorious con-
centration camp at Buchenwald also
added their commentator to the
public presentation of the atrocity
exhibit in both photomurals and
motion pictures.
They were DR.. Alfred Balachowsky
and Maj. Marcel A. Maillard, who
had been active in the French under |
ground campaign against the Ger
mans during the occupation of
France They are here to tell their |
stories of prison camp horrors. They
accompany Count Raoul de Lubersac
of Paris, whose interview appeared !
in The Star yesterday. The three
are sponsored by the French En-
bassy where they held a press con-
ference this morning. They bring |
with them documentary evidence of
some of. the most revolving German
prutalitieS.
Dr.. Balschowsky. born in Russia
and naturslized in France. is chief |
of laboratory in the famous Pasteur |
Institute at Paris and also cap
tain In the French Army. He was
prisoner at Buchenwald where he
was engaged as scientist In the
preparation of vsccines against
typhus.
was Underground Member.
He had been arrested at his home
in Paris because of his activities for |
the French underground, which in
cluded the reception and storage of |
weapons and ammunition dropped
into France by English airplanes.
He also helped with the movement
for concealment and escape of Allied
flyers who were shot down over
France. He was liberated from
Buchenwald by the American forces.
A long process of education will be
necessary in Germany, he warned.
Maj. Maillard, who formerly df-
rected underground forces in South !
western France, was arrested by the
Gestapo, held in several prisons and
finally escaped from German
prison train taking him from Buch-
enwald He witnessed many bru-
talities practiced by the Germans.
Congratulating The Star and ST.
Louis Post Dispatch for their pres.
entation of atrocity pictures which I
he viewed. he called on Americans
to beware" of the Germans.
The only thing they are thinking
OF is one thing said Mai.
Maillard. You or we don't dare
relax. Don't believe the German
people. Be on guard against them.
The principal thing they understand
is force