Evening star., 1945-04-24

rocket bomb factory, but by de-
liberate policy we're starved to
death.
The death quota was 80 each day.
II 80 did not die from starvation,
the difference was killed. The weak
est were offered a choice-death by
an injection of formalin in the
veins or hanging themselves with
the aid of SIS men, who would
mercifully club out their brains If
they kicked too much at the end
of the rope, so that their suffering
from choking was not too pro-
longed.
I have seen roads Uttered with
the rotting bodies of our own poor
boys in Normandy Still I can't
attempt to describe Buchenwald-
even a week after
Lots of reporters came to Buchen-
wald before me. I went there today
intending to write a cold scientific
story on wholesale starvation. But
Maj. Joseph Andriola of New York
took me through the children's
ward set up by the Army Medical
Corps and into the castration ward
where 5000 men were castrated in
the last few months-and somehow
science seems far away.
When Col Williams took over
Buchenwald he found 5000 dying.
He estimated that 1t would require
30 days without food and only oc-
casional sips of water to bring
healthy adult man to such a con-
ditlon. found living corpses on the
floors. Looking in their eyes is
like looking into puddle of muddy
water" said the colonel.
Even a glucose injection in the
veins was too much Of strain for
the dying. Their condition was like
shock after an operation. The
former physiology professor calcu-
lated what blood was needed. He
calculated the elements of food for
keeping a man alive primarily to
make blood. So the poor devils
within few minutes of death by
starvation were given pint Of
whole blood donated by people in
England and America.
Corpses Become Alive.
He feared that to give them more
than pint would cause convul-
ions. The effects were remarkable.
Living corpses in a few hours be-
came alive.
] saw man today-skin drawn
er bones. Twenty American doc
rs are working day and night to
ep the poor devils alive-especial-
the children, mostly Polish Jews
lose parents were executed in the
chambers. One 12-year-old wa
lied "Gangster' because he boast:
at his uncle is member of the
apone gang in Chicago.
I entered this camp with two
oman reporters. I was taken alone
through the castration ward where
80, men recently operated on said
they were due for gas-chamber
deaths In q few days when the
Americans came. They had served
the purpose of sex experiments of a
crazy Nazi doctor.
was taken to the hanging cham,
Der. There was no gallows. A mar
who preferred this type of death was
allowed to put the moose around his
own neck. He was then pulled up
and choked to death.
I was told the formalin vein in
lection brought on a very painful
death and that most of the victims
preferred hanging themselves. In
the walls behind the moose were
marks of fingernails where hanging
men had scratched in death agony
before the clubbing.
AS for typhus experiments, said
Col. Williams, II don't think I will
ever want to experiment with dog
again. At the University of Texac
we used to do that but then we woule
kill them with an ether injection In
the veins. It seems so different when
I see men used the same way"
One good thing about Buchenwalt
800 children seemed in fair phys
cal condition due to the fact thu
their elders had given them all tt
food possible and a child needs le'
/ They were playing games when
/ entered the building, like children
Washington street corners.
Among the prisoners were
Polish, French and Russian doctor.
They said the job was hopeless