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Congress Given Account ofIWASHINGTON, May IS - lt;JJP) -CmgNaM who made so inspection toiif of Nszi camp* repotted discovery of * ghoui-ish enemy treasure horde nearBuchenwslJIt included a largo each* of goldfilling* and Jewelry including thousands of weddmg ring* found In • quarry mar the camp The “Joef had obviously been taken from bodies of victims before they wereadequate punishment” (or thorn re-But despite the cruelty and horror the «aw they haid forth hope of future Justice.Senate Democratic Leader Alben W Barkley of Kentucky, spofcaaman I tor the curnenittee, said:J Through the sickening spectaclewhir* we have witnessed ... will««• ultimately a firmer realization that men of all nations »lt;*d• • •By ALLEN 0811YWASHINGTON, May 15 . (UP) • Congress heard at first hand today a part of the terrible story of Nest methods of rule by esteraua-of every*itheoryi Tijto h m4just andand idealogy that• * #A 12-manfreshifa tour of GerThey told a tragicthepractices to beythe sacrifices which thehas endured through one ofmrst crucial periods of its historyThe 12-man committee, invsud kGan, Dwight D Eisenhowerthe results of Nazi treatment of political prisoners and slaee laborers,visited camps at Buchanwaid, fford-hausen and1ini Itlii 'UMiliWalter f. George, D.Ca., Elbert DThomas, D- Utah. C.Brooks, OL. Kenneth 8. Wherry, Iseit, certain .and 1R „ Neb , *»d Leveret! faltonstaJJ.camps, verified many of the worsttale of filth,murder.leas than gr-IBAtrocitiesR^ Mass., and Reps R. EwingD„ Tes , James P Rkh-. D, 8 C„ Ed V, Dae, D.f Calif,John M, Very s. R., O. James W Mott, it, Ore., and Dewey R , MoBarkley, who raad his report to the Senate, charged that the camps constitute^ s “calculated and diabolical program of planned tortureand extermination on the part of those who were in control of thegovernment. *He said the three camps visited were an “accurate croe*~*ecUon ' of the more than 10© such concentration and slave labor camps in Germany Camps were largely conducted mid controlled by SS troops end the gestapo either acting under orders front superior or “given wide discretion in the methods theywere to adopt in perpetraapd inhumflB He reassured the Senate at the outset that American prisoner* ofwar were not incarcerated to any (of the onomtratiaii cempo Ha said the wtmmmm baaed itsdmeaty of eyewttnesaea among thaand “common knowledge d tha camp things not actually saen by tha prisoner* but which they all knew to be true from circumstantial evidence.Bodily tortures not described because “syewiuissetf to the troceedings in the torture chambers seem always to have been doneaway with ”He aabi the committee saw withits own eyas:I “The barracks, the work places, the physical facilities for torture, degradation and execution ” t The victims, both dead andalive,“ of the atroclUea practicedI. “The progress of liquidation by starvation which was etili going on.” 4 “We saw tha indescribable filth and smelled the nauseating stench before it was cleaned up, and we saw a number of victims of this liquidation process actually die 0Barkley said that at Buchenwald tha tooimittee saw the Tittle camp,'* in which prisoners slept on triple-decked shelve* Each ihelf wasPisses Turn To Beck Page—
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South Haven Daily Tribune
South Haven, Michigan, US
Tue, May 15, 1945
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