HUMANS COMPETED FOR FOOD WITH ZOO ANIMALS
Received Tuesday, 10 a.m. LONDON, April 14. A message from Dachau says that Peter Zenkel, Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, gave evidence at the trial of the Buchenwald concentration camp officials that' the camn inmates competed with zoo animals for food. Zenkel, who was interned in the camp from 1939 until the end of the war, added: "Prisoners always liked to work in the zoo because they could scrounge food intended for the monkeys, pig'S, dogs and other animals." Zenkel wept as he told the tribunal of the "Singing Forest" in front of his cell, which the S.S. j ironically so named because of the cries of tortured prisoners hung by i their wrists from the trees whiie they were beaten.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1947, Page 5
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