Evening star., 1946-06-02
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Such stories Of guinea pigs expert
menting often comes from the
mouths, of the children themselves
Little Peter Krol, whose surname
was Germanized to Kroh, did moi
learn German fast enough to suit
his Nazi mentors and often tried tt
answer in his native tongue wher
asked question. This resulted ir
his being sent to Loben, one Of the
Nazis' notorious experimental plants
They told me they were sending
me to a hospital" Peter told ar
interviewer.
Were you sick when you went
there?"
"Oh, no, not when I went there
They put me to bed and measured
my head. Then they started sticking
needles into my arm. Then 1 go,
sick" A nurse later told Peter he
was unconscious as long as IA days
at a time.
Two Go Crazy.
Other childish voices relate similar
stories. Kurt Duda, forcibly taker
from his mother in Petrowitz
Silesia, told of seemingly endless
injections and spinal punctures, OF
having to 60 without food If caught
speaking Polish. Will Nahlik, a
l0-year-old compatriot of Kurt's
told how he and two of his friends
at "Germanizing school" were
caught speaking Polish after they
had been warned, and became-as
punishment - guinea pigs. They
stuck us in the arms and backs with
needles until we all became ill. The
two other boys became little crazy
SO they had to take the death pills. ~
Will survived but his memory has
suffered. He has frequent spells OF
violent headache and nausea. He
was completely healthy before he
became a pincushion for mad Nazi
doctors.
And even more cunning than their
institution method of Germanizine
children was the Nazi system of
placing individual children in child
less German homes to be reared by
German parents. If caught young
enough, such children never realize
they are not German. Others, who
have some faint recollection, have
been Systematically drilled to give
the right answers to interviewers
One such child answered questions
in such good German and with such
logic that interviewers were on the
point of calling him German. A last
question, however, brought the
defiant answer, "Nein, nein, nista, >
and provided the clue which estab-
lished the child's identity as a
Yugoslavian Serb. 2n M
Reveals kidnapping.
The sharp-eared UNRRA hnguist
who interviewed this child recog-
nized the first two negatives as
German and the third as Serb. Fur
ther questioning finally brought the
confession from the child that he
had been kidnapped by Nazis from
his native Jugoslav home while he
had been alone with his grand
mother one evening. He had given
false answers because he had been
threatened by his German custo-
dians.
Other German foster parents
guard against their wards being re-
claimed by teaching the children to
hate their parents - whom they
might only remember dimly-by
telling them their parents were
criminals. One father, after months
OF desperate searching, finally faced
a hostile son in a German home in
Stuttgart. The sons hostility was
born from the vicious Ne his Ger
man foster parents had told him,
that his father had murdered his
mother and then deserted him. Ac-
tually the father had been dragged
away to a concentration camp and
the child stolen from his mother
whose real murderers were the op-
orators of Auschwitz.
Ironically, these foster child cases
are sometimes rendered tragic by
actual love German foster parents
instill in child minds by kind treat
ment. Such German ersatz parents
often shed mutual tears with their
foster children when separated.
They actually feel as though they
were being robbed of their real
children, and the children recipro-
cate the feeling.
Clues Fall from Sky"
Not only do UNRRA searchers
encounter resistance from institu-
tions and reluctant foster parents.
but German government officials in
many instances insist on trying to
save the kidnapped children for Ger
many. The burgermeister of one
German village denied emphatically
that any Allied children were in
the vicinity of his town when ques-
toned by an UNRRA searcher, but
a few minutes later a nun on the
street, when asked the same ques-
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