TORTURE & MURDER
NAZI TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN POLAND SOME HORRIFYING EXAMPLES A terrible account of the fate of children in Poland under German occupation was given in London by the Polish Ministry of the Interior. Some of the examples cited were: a twelve year old boy who tore down a German poster in Poland was led to execution crying bitterly for his mother; two schoolgirls, aged fourteen and sixteen, who helped to distribute underground newspapers, were flogged to death; 100 Boy Scouts faced a firing squad singing the Polish National Anthem. To Warsaw some months ago came a rumour that hundreds of Polish children on their way to dispersal to various labour camps were in trains bound for the capital. The women of Warsaw waited. When the first train-load arrived, they broke the barriers, and smashed open the sealed wagons. They found the children demented with terror, half-starved, and in a state of filth. There was no sanitation in the train. Many women who came to the children’s aid were shot.—(“Daily Telegraph,” London).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1943, Page 4
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173TORTURE & MURDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1943, Page 4
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