FURTHER EVIDENCE OF NAZI BRUTALITY

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5283, 20 December 1946, Page 5

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF NAZI BRUTALITY

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DACHAU TREATMENT

POISON PILLS FED AND INMATES FROZEN

-Rec. 9.80 p.m.)

NUREMBEBG, Dec. 19. A German floctor, Walter Neff, saicl at the trial of the 23 Nazi doctors that 60 or 80 poison pills were fed to inmates of the Dachau camp to test "easy" suicide methods for the German leaders • in case the regime collapsed. The victims died in great pain. Neff was imprisoned at Dachau in 1938 for informing against P-.S. men who intended to bomb an Austrian police station, but later became assistant to Dr. Sig*mund Rascher, now dead, who invented the pills. On the chief S.S. doctor's order, Neff did "dry freezing" experiments on 100 people by leaving them in the open air all night. Three died in the first three experiments. Neff admitted that he suggested experiments on the Dachap inmates to clot blood chemically, but claimed that he did this to pi'event Rascher from doing surgical blood pressure experiments on people in iey water, which would have cost more lives. He denied that he shot people to test anti-bleeding drugs. Collection of Skeletons Evidence of a Nazi plan to complete a Jewish skeleton collection at Strasburg University was given by a French ex-prisoner of war, v/ho said 86 corpses of Jews wei-Q taken to the •university in 1943. Doeuments presented to the court claimed that the defen^jfnt Sievers conceived the plan that captured "Jewish Bolshevik commissars" should be measured and killed and their heads severed and -sent undamaged to a laboratory. Ravensbruck Horrors A French -witness, Violette le Coq, told the court trying the Ravensbruck camp staff, that a group of gypsies, including a girl of .nine, were sterilised, and left writhing on the floor. An accused doetor tried to cut. a woman's arm *from ihe armpit to the wrist, and left it imhandaged. Dorothea Binz, the chief wardress, set a dog on a Russian woman, whose arm was torn off. The witness added that selections for the gas ehamber caused a reign of terror in the camp and the women were half mad with fear when the lorries arrivod.