TORTURE BY GESTAPO

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 1

TORTURE BY GESTAPO

GRIM EVIDENCE IN PARIS

LONDON, September 2. _ lne marks of hundreds of clutching fingers on the sound-proof wall of a torture chamber tell .a tale of the agony- of men and women victims of the Gestapo in a Paris suburb." says the Paris correspondent of the British United Press. "Several hundred French people and also Germans who had refused to fight are believed to have been tortured and killed there. "The slaughter-house-consists of two rifle ranges. People who heard shots thought the Germans were testing weapons. The Germans first lashed their victims to an iron grille against a wall covered with thick, fibrelike material, and then turned on an electric current. There are hundreds of handprints dug deep into the wall covering, among them deep, irregular' holes which might have come from the heavy knotted ends of Gestapo whips. Three battered execution posts 75 yards down the rifle range tell the rest of the story ;

'}The F.F.I, brought in five German prisoners and showed them the proof of the Gestapo methods. A young German sergeant said: 'I have been told that the Russians do this sort of thing, but I would never have believed it of Germans. I can only say I understand your anger."