'Ghastly Murder Camp Uncovered by Third Army
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MaJ. John R. Scottl, Brooklyn, N. Y., Fourth Armored Division medical officer of American Third Army, In
spects 60 or more naked things that once were men In another wholesale Nazi murder camp near Ohrdruf,
Germany. Many were horribly bruised with scabs on their heads and the whole pile had been sprinkled with
lime. Survivors of the ghastly ordeal at hands of Nazis said victims were only part of estimated 6000 Rus
sians, Czecho-Slovaklans, Poles, Frenchmen, German Jews and German political prisoners beaten and tor
tured at this camp alone whei. malnutrition prevented their doing a full day's work.
"Shudder House" of Hadamar
Scene of Injection Murders
By Ann Stringer
United Press Correspondent
With the U. S. First Army
Inside Germany, April 10. (U.Ri
The "shudder house" or Hada-
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100 other MONARCH foods-all Just as Coodl
mar stands on a high hill over
looking the peaceful German
town.
In the cemetery beside it are
buried some 8,000 persons
killed in the "shudder house" by
a poison Injection in the heart,
administered at the orders of the
Gestapo,
The Germans in the town call
the house the "schauerhaus.''
They all knew what had been
happening there' since 1939 but
the complete story was not
known until American troops
overran the big rambling "hospi
pital" where efficiency was the
watchword.
The doctor who ran the "hos
pital" and his head nurse were
both, captured. They told part
of the story.' The graves and 18
volumes of death certificates
found in the hospital cellar told
the rest.
In the huge cemetery outside
the hospital are 300 huge mass
graves. In each grave there are
10 to 15 wooden coffins, each
holding two bodies, many of
them women.
In the cellar were found the
volumes of death certificates
one volume for 1939; two for
1940; two for 1941; three for
1942; four for 1943 and six for
1944.
Each book lists about 500
death certificates. All are the
same. The name of the person
has been marked down, then
"profession unknown, national
ity unknown."
The "patients" were sent to
the hospital by nazis and Ges
tapo officers for "treatment,"
the doctor said. Each was de
scribed as a "mental patient"
and the doctor was instructed to
put them to death.
The doctor explained he car
ried out the instructions by in
jecting directly Into the heart a
poison which caused Immediate
death. He explained that death
was caused partly by the jab
bing of the large needle into the
heart, but the major cause was
the quick-acting poison.
Closing Ume for Sunday Too Late
to Classify 5:30 Saturday afternoon
Pleaie remember.
Another Wholesale Murder Camp
Discovered Near Ohrdruf, Germany
By Robsrt E. Richards
United Press Correspondent
Ohrdruf, Germany, April 8
(U.B Another
wholesale nazi murder camp,
where scores of prisoners were
shot when they became too ill
to work, was discovered near
here by 3rd army tankmen.
At one site they found 31
ointherl hnriies lying hud
dled grotesquely together where
S3 guards naa Kineu urem
cause they were too 111 to be
moved.
Bodies Stacked
Monrhv in a small wooden
shed were stacked 50 or more
naked things that once were
men. Many were norriDiy
bruised with scabs on meir
heads, and the whole pile had
been sprinkled with lime.
Survivors of the ghastly ordeal
at the hands of the nazis said
these victims were only part of
the estimated 6,000 men killed
at the camp.
Approximately 4,uuu were
cremated and the ashes poured
into one great hole, while some
2,000 others were shot and their
bodies aburied in a huge pit a
mila nr sn from the camp, ac
cording to several of the prison
ers who had escaped.
Almost all the victims were
Russians, Czechoslovakians,
Poles, Frenchmen, German Jews
and German political prisoners.
They were beaten and tortured
and when malnutrition prevent
ed their doing a full days work
they were killed.
One American
One of the victims, a blond
younger lying on a stretcher
with a hole in his neck, may be
an American flier. That is what
he told others in the camp, but
he wore no Identification tags
and it was impossible to check
his identity.
These atrocities were actually
seen by U. S. army officers, cor
respondents and Germans.
Col. Hayden A. Sears, New
'ton, Mass., told the German
civilians, who viewed the scene
without muttering a word, that
they were to blame for the
fiendish acts.
A German major, who also
had seen the slaughtered oodles,
replied that "this was done by
a few people and you cannot
blame us all."
"It was done by those that the
German people chose to lead
them and all are responsible,"
Sears answered.
"Your names are being taken
as witnesses so you can testify
in trial if the persons responsi
ble are apprehended."
Railroad Noises
An editorial from tbt San Jest, CalifimU,"Epnhg Nnn",
(San Jose hen tbt main lint ef Southern Pacific1! Coast Lint)
WE HAVE always resented those) snooty expressions,
"across the tracks" or "down by the tracks," with their
implication that there was something disreputable and
socially low-life about living near railroad tracks. After
living many years a block from the Espee's rails, we rise
to say that there are many worse places to live
Living close to the railroad has its obvious advantages
when you are a boy. Where is there a more romantio
place than the right, of way, with wheezing switch en
gines, puffing freights (which travel so much faster now
than they used to) and speeding passenger trains?
Morning, noon and night railroading holds attraction
for a boy, which is why so many of them go into it,
. finding a romance which never dulls until they die,
"But how can you stand the noise?" someone asks;
Far from being bothered by the noises, you get so you
find them soothing and conducive to repose. You get so
you can tell the freight trains from the passengers, and
you distinguish the touch on the whistle rope of that in
dividualistic enginetnan who makes his blasts so short,
harp and distinctive.
The various whistle notes represent to you these giant
creatures of fire and steel talking to one another over
long distances and on winter nights, when the wind is
blowing and the rain is pelting against the windows it if
pleasant to think of engineer and fireman, snug in their
cab with the fire roaring below them, shunting lines of
cars up and down the glistening wet tracks.
If these night noises from the tracks are comfortable
and appealing to you during peace they have even mora
of these qualities during war. You realize that both the
wars in which we are engaged are transportation wars
and must be won not only in the foxholes and workshops
but on the railroads as well. Some of the particularly
long trains you bear puffing and snorting these nights
are troop trains and others are weighed down with war's
materiel, It la comfortable to reflect what a great job the
railroadmen are doing, driving their trains and switching
their cars 24 hours a day, even while you are asleep.
Back a few years, when trucks and buses started to
cut more and more deeply Into railroad revenues, with
the airplane as an additional competitor just ahead, as a
boy living near the tracks you may have wondered a
little worriedly If they would put your old friends, the
freights and passengers, out of business. It took the war
to show that a nation's need of railroads continues, that
no nation can be great and strong without them. You
are reassured by that, and by the articles and drawings
that have been published of vastly improved equipment
which will help the railroads get their share of traffia
after the war. Such things mean your friends will be able;
to stay alive and that, drowsily safe and comfortable;
you will continue to hear the trains chugging and puffing
through the night.
a e e
We thank the San Jose Newt for so beautifully putting
Into word the way we raUroadert, and many other people,
fed about train.
q) The friendly
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German Astounded
The German major, a medical
officer, had been shown the
bodies by an American medical
major, John R. Scotti, Brooklyn.
When the German saw the
bodies he said: "I wouldn't be
lieve it if I hadn't seen it with
my own eyes."
But this town's leading citi
zens, the burgomelster and .his
wife, did not see the scenes to
day. They were found hanged
inside their homes. They had
been taken to the camp before
and apparently had committed
suicide. -
The SS guards' cleaned out
the camp several days age when
American tanks approached.
The prisoners who could walk
were taken along. Some others
were put on trucks. But those
who were too 111 to travel either
way were shot.
Head of Big Bank
Snuffs Own Life
North Granville, N. Y., April
10 (U.R) Simple burial rites
were planned today for Leon
Eraser, 55, who put a bullet
through his head when he tired
of the life that saw him rise
from a humble son of a shoe
salesman to the presidency of
one of the nation's richest banks.
Fraser, president of the First
National Bank of New York, died
yesterday en route to a hospital
after the caretaker found him on
the lawn of his summer home
Tussdar. April 10, 1943 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
here. The coroner returned a
verdict of suicide.
Caracas, April 10 (U.R) Vene
zuela announced today resump
tion of diplomatic relations with
Argentina.
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