Paris, Oct. 31. chief of the Gestapo, Herr Heinrich Himmler, has begun a grim purge of Nazi prisons, according to the "Paris Soir." commission under Herr Himmler's leadership, the newspaper says, claims to be ridding the Reich of enemies of Nazism, who are in prison or concentration camps.
Since October 12, over 1,000 pri soners are stated to have been shot, The "Paris Soi" declares that the objects of the purge are to get rid of suspects, impress survivors, and make room for further arrests.—Reuter.
London, Oct. 30.
The horrors of German concentration camps are described in a White Paper issued today dealing with the ill-treatment of Jews amd opponents of the Nazi regime.
The White Paper explains that "before the war and ever since its outbreak, the German Government. almost daily put out propaganda accusing Great Britain of atroci ies in South Afri a 40 years ago. "In view of this shameless propaganda, which is wholly devoid of any founda-tio!
His Majesty's Government think it opportune to publish some reports they have received of the treatment accorded in Germany itself 0 German national:
The White Paper then reveals that less than 1,938 members of oppo-sillon parties in Germany were recently arrested wholesale and consigned to concentration camps, where they were subjected to the most bar-barons treatment, Flogging and for ture were the order of the day, and i was common knowledge in Ger~ many" thatthe NationaleSocialist movement was taking a terrible ven-seance on those who had the temer= lly (0 oppose it"
Tt is emphasized that the documents published in the White Paper were not written for publication, White Paper slates, the maltreatment of German minorlties In foreign countries, and the "Macedonian conditions' reigning there. TI will be seen from the published "papers that under the present regime, conditions in Ger~ Many itself, and the treatment Germans, are reminiscent not Mnecdonia but of the darkest ages inthe history of man.
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