Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-17
By Paul ReIIomy

BY Paul BeIIomy
CLEVELAND, May II (NANA)
1t might be interesting to take
look at Dachau.
The cyanide chamber, where the
miserable victims of Nazi liquida-
ton policies were destroyed, are
still maintained and will be kept
as public monument. 1t is said
that 283000 were "processed' there,
mostly Jews.
The American Army took motion
pictures of the camp on it's first
arrival, and I saw one of these in
Nuremberg after going through the
camp at Dachau.
The heart turns sick at such in
credible monstrosity.
When the avenging troops marched
in, so many bodies of victims were
lying around and their carcasses
were so corrupting the air, that in
some cases it was necessary to
bring out great bulldozers with steel
blades in front of them which
literally swept thousands of bodies
lnJo common grave.
Few RemOrseful.
The sight was the most awful
have ever witnessed. Poor, miser-
able. emaciated corpses being hurt
led by the behemoth bulldozer into
their final resting place. Occasion
ally a leg would come of Occas-
ionally an arm would stick out In
a most distorted manner, as the
bodies rolled one on top of the other
into oblivion.
That film should be shown to
every German, as it has already
been shown to the people in Munich
But I regret to say that there are
not great many remorseful Ger
mans. The film showed photographs
of Germans witnessing these sights
Some of the women dabbed at their
handkerchiefs, but by and large
both women and men said. although
they lived near Dachau, they knew
nothing Of what was going on
Someone more naive than will
have to be found to give credence
to this statement.
In Dachau, there is a stockade
with 10000 German prisoners. mostly
storm troopers. Contiguous to the
stockade Is a prison house with cells
where the more dangerous criminals
are kept. We saw there guards who
had killed their thousands, women
who had literally dubbed to death
hundreds of their own sex, and both
men and women who had committed
bestial crimes against the dignity
of man so awful as to be imprint
able.
Now If anyone thinks he can make
good little lambs out of those rattle
snakes by feeding them a bowl Of
warm milk, he and I have been
living in different universes.
At Nuremberg, we were privileged
to spend whole day in the court
room of the international tribunal
trying Marshal Herman Goering
and his associate criminals. This
is the boiled-down syrup Of the
whole Nazi conspiracy against man
kind.
The defendant being tried that
day was Alfred Rosenberg, the
idea" man Of the Nazis, and the
great international art thief, next
to Hitler himself and Goering.
1t struck all Of our party that
the proceedings were pretty difiuse
and that the defendants were al
lowed to talk about almost anything
they wanted to, including apple pie
and the great dipper But the
whole theory of the trial was ex-
planned to us very we'll that night
in Nuremberg. when We were the
guests of Justice Robert Jackson,
the American prosecutor.
Explains Delay.
The afternoon session ended, we
adjourned to our hotel. where that
evening, Mr. jackson gave a din
ner. 1t was attended also by Willis
Smith of North Carolina. president
Of the American Bar Association.
who had been delegated by that
organization to study the Nuern-
berg trials. Mr.. Jackson was asked
about the long delay in reaching
convictions. His explanation was,
roughly, as follows:
The United States and it's victor
ious allies are setting up a new
principle of international law fol-
lowing this war, namely, the prin-
ciple that the chief factors in bring
ing about an aggressive war, in
volving the violation of interna-
tional treaties, are personally guilty.
This present list may extend to a
great many thousands and ulti-
mately to 100000 or more, if sus-
tanned. The larger number will
come into the criminal class if the
court rules that membership in the
Storm Trooper organization and
certain other extremely active Nazi
organizations, per Sc, renders the
member a criminal.
As Mr.. Jackson pointed out, MOTH
ing like this has been attempted
after any other war in history.
Therefore, he said, we had to have
a complete record to prove that
this was the most monStrous con-
spiracy in history against human