INHUMAN TREATMENT
GIVEN BY THE GERMANS TO WOUNDED. SOUTH AFRICAN DOCTOR’S REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 2.10 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, June 7. A South African doctor who escaped after several months in the hands of the Germans described conditions in German field hospitals as shocking. The doctor was put to work in one hospital where inhuman treatment was meted out to the German wounded. Bullets were .extracted under a local anaesthetic. The wounded were given a few blankets and were compelled to sleep on floors.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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86INHUMAN TREATMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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