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Eyewitness Stories Of Nazi Torture Camps Are Related
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- Congress Given Gruesome Account
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, May 16, 1945
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Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
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- Tom Reedy (AP)
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- Washington, May 15 (AP)—In shocked silence, Congress heard from its own eyewitnesses today the gruesome story of Germany's torture camps where thousands of slaves lived like cattle and died like beasts.
The report of six Senators and six Representatives who visited three notorious concentration camps was read simultaneously in the two chambers by Senator Barkley (D-Ky) and Rep. Thomason (D-Tex).
It was a bitter denunciation of the German government—an indictment on the high charge of mass murder. It did not spare the German public.
Senator BarkJey did not spare the German Army either. He said it was inconceivable that the General Staff would not have known about the savage practices of the SS and Gestapo.
"It is the opinion of your committee that these practices constituted no less than organized against civilization and humanity," the report said, "and those who were responsible for them should have meted out to them swift, certain and adequate punishment."
The report referred to War Crime Commission in London and the French Commission, praising the steps already taken for prosecution of war criminals in Germany. This work is well under way, the report said, and thus there is no need the committee to recommend any action.
The 12 legislators visited Buchenwald, Nordenhausen and Dachau the most notorious camps for po ...
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- Katherine V.
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