NAZI CAMPS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1933, Page 6

NAZI CAMPS

FOR COMMUNISTS AND JEWS. .GERMAN POLICY DEFENDED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegi aph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 23. The ‘‘Sunday. Graphic’s” Hamburg correspondent reports: ‘‘The British ought to realise that we must have concentration camps lor Communists and Jews, ..because the prisons, are - full,” said the Nazi commandant of the great camp at Fullsbuttel, which is hall a niiie sqjiare, and surrounded with' electrified barbed wire fences and «rmeil guards. The camp is crowded with twelve thousand, mostly Jews. The commandant stated that they had grown idle and. wealthy; at.the expense of Germans, and they must now work and become useful citizens. The correspondent, saw thousands sweating furiously in the rain over useless tasks, some digging a great bole, others refilling it; and others moving a great boulder hither and thither. Meanwhile their, wives and women Communists are employed cooking and making Nazi uniforms. The camp contains a garden in which , flowerbeds art* made in the form of a. swastika which prisoners must water daily. They must also attend lectures on > the benefits of Hitlerism. .