The Archive · 1938

Concentration Camp Torments

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The concentration no means reserved In Buchenwalde for camps are by for Jews only. instance, the were 1,300

Jews as compared to habitual criminals.

not treated better than the Jews, although they received full rations of food, whilst the criminals were actually designate ed as foremen to the Jews and were more cruel than the officers as they wanted to make a good imsion in front of the camp authorities. Political activities, the interlocutor continued, were still going on within the camp, whilst the Aryan political prisoners did not even bother to apply to be set free, as they were confident that soon the "hour of liberation" would come.

Prisoners were sometimes obliged fo submit to the sadistic and perverted desires of their captors, under threat of dire punishment.

Most of those who arrived yesterday were businessmen and industrialists, whilst technicians. lawyers and a few doctors also arrived. There was quite a number of octo and musicians amongst yesterday's batch of refugees The committees looking after them, have found temporary quarters for them in Hongkew. Some 22 will be living in the former Foreign Women's Home on Baikal Road, whilst a number of houses and rooms have been rented elsewhere in the

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