PRISONERS IN FRANCE
CENTRES OF TORTURE & MURDER. UNDER BESTIAL GERMAN METHODS. Prisons in France are becoming Germanised; the Gestapo is seeing to that. Where, before, prisoners were questioned in the presence of responsible officials, they are now tortured. Even women are tortured. Prisons once were filled with offenders against the law. Now the majority of those between their walls is composed of French men and women who have been thrown there because of a hasty word or false accusation. A German passing in the street can have a person immediately arrested because he thinks their air disdainful. Men, and women too, pass whole days with their hands tied behind them. Only for a few minutes in the morning are they untied so that they may wash. The doors of the prison do open, most often for transfer to a concentration camp, often for the firing squad, rarely for liberation. And liberation, when it comes, does not mean the return to home and loved ones. One must show one's gratitude to the Germans for having imprisoned one without reason by signing an engagement to leave at once as a “volunteer” for work in Germany. Men are condemned to death. In ordinary times the worst criminal, called upon to pay the extreme penalty, receives favoured treatment, is allowed to see his family and receive parcels from them. Families of men condemned to death, and languishing in French prisons- rarely learn the terrible news until the execution has taken place. All this state of affairs is growing worse. Every day the hideous blight of the Nazi reign of terror is settling down over the fair land of France,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1943, Page 4
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275PRISONERS IN FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1943, Page 4
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