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THE ROBESOMAN, LUMBER fON, -M. C. iMUiiSDAY, MAY m5. FACJfc IHHtifi Congress Shocked At Gruesome Story Of Torture Gamp Washington --(7P)-- In shocked silence, Congress heard from its own eyewitnesses Mon. the gruesome story of Germany's torture camps where thousands of slaves lived like cattle and died like beasts.

The report of six senators and six representatives who visited three notorious concentration camps was read simultaneously in the two chambers by Senator Barkley, Democrat of Kentucky and Representative Thomason, Democrat of Texas. It was a bitter denunciation of the German government-- indictment on the high charge of mass murder. It did not spare the German public. Senator Barkley did not spare the German either. He said it was inconceivable that the general staff would not have known about the savage practices of the" SS and Gestapo.

Demands Punishment "It is the opinion of your committee that, these practices constituted no less than organized crime against civilization and humanity." the report said, "and those who were responsible for them should have meted out to them swift, certain and adequate punishment." The investigations conferred with War Crimes commission in London and the French commission, praising the steps already taken for prosecution of war criminals in Germany. This work is well underway, the report said, and thus there is no need for the committee to recommend any action. tits' 12 legislators visited Buchemvald, Nordenhausen and Dachau, the most notorious camps for political prisoners. They saw the dead, they saw the dying. Barkley said some helpless captives di'od while the American investigators were there.

Dachau was overrun so fast by the American troops, the report said that none of the evidence of the atrocities could be destroyed. This was largely true of Buchenwald too. At Nordhausen, U. S. forces had had three weeks to put things in shape but the story was the same, traced back through witnesses.

Planned Torture It was a story of planned starvation, of use of German criminals to destroy the mentality "of all those who opposed the master race." of huge ovens for cremating victims, and. of torture devices. said the magnitude of the -horror could be understood only 'by the stench" of the places, and "smell of death." The report said everywhere there was evidence that the German civilian was fat and well clothed. The twelve concluded that the contrast pointed to calculated and diabolical program of planned torture and extermination on the part of those who -were in control of the German government." BtV MORE WAR BONDS BUY WAR BONDS New Prisoner-of-War Camp Near Whiteville new prisoner of war camp at Whiteville was opened Monday with a complement of 250 prisoners, Lt. R.

H. Hazel, commanding officer of the Wilmington P.O.W. camp, announced. He added he did not expect the new camp to relieve the labor shortage here because the greatest demands for the new prisoners would be from the pulpwood industries. All housing facilities for the new unit were moved in from Camp Sutton and include portable buildings and tents, the officer said.

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