SHOCKING WAR CRIMES
Pre-ss Assn.
Healthy Girls Turned Irito Old Women CAMP INMATES EXTERMINATED
By Telegrayh
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Received Friday, 11 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. Experiments said to have tniTied healthy girls in their twenties to grey-haired old women are listed in the indictments charging ten men aird six women members of the staff of Ravensbruch women "s concentration camp with killing and ill-treating Allied nationals says Reuter's Hamburg correspondent. Five thousand women are said to have died in gas chambers and only 15,000 out of the 150, 00C sent to the camp during the war were left to be liberated when the Russians arrived in May, 1945. The prosecutor said Himmler once visited the camp and complained that the inmates were not dying fast enough. As a result two experts in mass extermination werr-sc-nt there. A B.B.C. broadcast by a Polish girl who escaped, describing experiments in the camp, caused the commandant to herd together all survivors and exterminate them, added the prosecutor. Mrs. Odette Sansom, the Georg-" Cross winner who was a prisoner there, will tell the court a story of nightly thrashings and sadistic punishment.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 December 1946, Page 5
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187SHOCKING WAR CRIMES Chronicle (Levin), 6 December 1946, Page 5
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