SHOCKING STORY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 11

SHOCKING STORY

BRUTALITY AND OUTRAGE \

SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH!

LONDON, March 29. " " Germany is now in a period of tran>! sition between non-legal terror consisting of beatings and murders and legal terror comprising imprisonment andi death under special laws devised to keep the Opposition in a permanent state -of fear and demoralisation," says the "Manchester Guardian's" special correspondent at Berlin.

The correspondent cites three in-* stances of brutal beatings, ineludingsVthat of a Berlin Socialist, who was lashed with riding whips, taken to the Nazi headquarters, pinioned, and confronted with a. mock courtTtnartial,Brown Shirts standing on each side ofi the "Judge." Tho prisoner was repeatedly beaten, and finally removed to a room where there were a number of fellow-prisoners, some with their faces; beaten to pulp. A doctor was.present administering first aid. "Tho number killed with knives ancl bullets or beaten to death seems to' run into hundreds, and the injured to thousands," the correspondent says. "Many victims lost their sight owin^ to being beaten with steel wands. "Tho suppression of truth is-so sue-* eessful that even persons living iii Berlin, the scene of countless horribla outrages, will assert that nothing uni usual has happened. German, wordingclass fury and hatred have been aroused to such a state as never before existed in Germany."

Herr yon Papen has issued a decree banning all • Communist municipal councillors -in Prussia where in some places they secured, a majority at th* last election. ' .••-■.