INVITATION TO SUICIDE
HORRORS OF GAOL TORTURE CONDEMNED PRISONERS’ HUT. ROPES TIED ABOVE BEDS. ALLEGED NAZI BARBARITY. Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 18. “The Times” Strasnurg correspondent says the newspapers there state that 11 Communists and seven Jewish intellectuals were shot or hanged at the Dachu concentration chmp in three weeks-. The condemned are placed in a special hut and a. rope is tied to. a stout hook above each bed. When one' is shot or hanged the others are taken to see the body and invited to commit suicide. It is alleged "that all the inmates of the hut for the condemned are whipped nightly. Herr Arthur, a former section leader of the Reich sbanner, was kidnapped in Berlin and beaten to death at Schoen-b-urg, though the Nazis* declare that he hanged himself in liis cell.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 June 1933, Page 7
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138INVITATION TO SUICIDE Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 June 1933, Page 7
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