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Hodges 'Takes' Atlanta, Seymour By GIDEON SEYMOUR IiKttln Mlitnr rf thv Minneapolis fUr-Jmrnil and Trlhn who lltt Furnpa April M-Majr at Gn. F.isenhovar's invitation. The basement of the crematorium building at Buchen-wald was a torture chamber. The torture began with the entry into the basement of prisoners doomed by their SS masters to die there. A narrow walk from the wall gate around the crematorium building led direct to a chute barely two feet square dropping straight down eight feet from the ground level to the level of the basement floor.

Prisoner were pushed down this chute, often breaking; legs In the drop. Along one wall was a row of heavy iron hooks close to the) ceiling. Punished in Public It was common SS practice to punish prisoners publicly, in the prison yard, by putting their hands behind their backs and stringing them up by a rope tied around the wrists and raising them just high enough so their toes could not quite touch the ground. This often pulled their shoulders out of joint, and always contracted shoulder and back muscles so that blood circulation was impeded and. In addition to the pain, there was numbness.

A dozen prisoners tjld us they were thus strung up for periods varying from 10 to 45 minutes, and that to string up a prisoner for a longer period, until he died, was a favorite SS method of execution by torture. The Iron hooks along the basement ceiling were where prisoners were strung up for execution by this means. It was common testimony of prisoners that they often heard from the crematorium basement, across the eight-foot wall around the building, the cries and moans of their fellows being tortured within. Like Big Potato Masher A heavy wooden club like a huge potato masher was still in the basement, its blood-smeared edges testifying to the cruel use to which it had been put. Here is a picture of the basement, and of the club, being held by an Austrian inmate of Buchenwald, Kurt Gatnor, one-time officer in Chancellor Schussnigg's Austrian Border Guard.

It is being examined by William Nichols (left), editor of This Week, and Gen. Julius Ochs Adler (pointing), general manager of the New York Times. Rejoins Wife He Left Behind ATLANTA UP) Gen. Courtney H. Hodges came home Thursday to his native Georgia and the wife he left behind 15 months ago to lead the U.

S. First army in its victorious march through France, Belgium and Germany. He returned to the cheers of countless thousands who lined the streets to witness the biggest Hodges home town of Terry, virtually closed for the day as all of the residents who could arrange transportation flocked to Atlanta. The old timers remember Hodges as a boy, when he worked in a grocery store before starting as a buck private his 40-year army career. TITO ASKS SEAT ON TRIESTE AMG Moves More Men Into Area North of City TRIESTE UP) The Yugoslavs have moved additional forces into the regi6n north of Trieste and have notified Allied troops that several of the villages they occupied were in the Yugoslav occupation zone.

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