Death Marches and Brutal German POW Camps Reported
Eye witness accounts recount German brutality across occupied Europe. Prisoners in Brittany endured three week marches to Stuttgart with starvation and beatings en route. In Riga a camp signified slow death, and Oswiecim housed brutal gymnastics that led to over 90 000 deaths by July 1942.
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Japan
Battan
Brittany
Stuttgart
Russia
Riga
Holland
Oswiecim
Poland
Horrors of Nazi Deportations and Mass Atrocities Across Europe
Eyewitness accounts describe hundreds die on long rail journeys to concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Victims from Czechoslovakia Austria Salonika and Greece endure starvation cold and disease while guards commit murder torture rape and mass killings including infant deaths and forced labor.
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Europe
Poland
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Samuel Rajzman
Warsaw
Tremblinka
Rajzman
Frankfurt
Woxen
New Order
Inowroclaw
Prague
brutal Nazi prison camp abuses described at Oswiecim and Mauthausen
Eyewitness accounts recount prisoners forced to run for hours with bleeding feet and no medical care at Oswiecim, brutal beatings for lagging, and lethal punishment for slow climbers. In Mauthausen a bedridden inmate is cremated after a furnace official rejects rescue, as others are carted alive.
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Oswiecim
Carter Harrison Quits Revenue Job
Chicago figure Carter Harrison the five time mayor resigns from his post as collector of internal revenue as of Wednesday night.
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Illinois
Roosevelt
Harrison
Chicago
Carter Harrison
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