PRIVATIONS OF DUTCH
Nazi Prison Camp Brutality
A Dutchman who very recently escaped from occupied Holland has disclosed that the number of Dutchmen who are wanted by the German police is now running into many thousands. The police have long since given up the effort of printing their names in the police gazette itself. This paper is nowadays accompanied by a supplement for this purpose, which is growing visibly, and is assuming the size of a large-town telephone book. Even so, tile list can be tar Jroni considered complete.
Apart from this underground army, a very large number of Dutchmen is continuously rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The escapee estimated that in the largest German concentration camp in Holland—the camp at Vught -—there are now more than 20,000 prisoners. The fate they have to suffer there is indescribable. Dressed only in loudly striped prison clothes of thin material, they are subjected to the most inhuman treatment, from the Nazi prison guards, who tliitil; nothing of extinguishing their cigarettes in the prisoners’ faces The many people sent, to this prison camp are sent there arbitrarily on the slightest suspicion, but are not released even if :their innocence is proved.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5
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200PRIVATIONS OF DUTCH Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 5
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