NAZI TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1940, Page 5

NAZI TERRORISM

ATROCITIES IN POLAND VICTIMS INCLUDE MANY WOMEN. DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE AND HUNGER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, February 2. A report on German atrocities in Poland shows that the victims included many women. Houses were looted after the arrests of the occupants, who were herded into prisons where many died and others were shot. Those murdered number 15,000.

The camps lack sanitation, beds and food supplies. The inmates number 3000 at Gdynia, 5000 at Torun, and 3000 at Posnan. Many of those arrested have been robbed and abandoned in open country. Children have been separated from their parents and husbands from wives. Children between the ages of 13 and 15 years have been executed at Bromberg. The common people, instead 'of being sent to camps, are herded into trains and taken to Germany, where they are forced to work. This in-, volves nearly 1,000,000 people. The Germans have expelled all the 130,000 inhabitants of Gydnia, whose houses the Baltic Germans occupy, leaving the expelled occupants to die of hunger and exposure in central Poland. Every house in Poland has been looted.