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Germany Is Called Brutalized Nation

Publication Date
Wednesday, May 2, 1945
Historical Event
Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
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Article Type
News Article
Newspaper
The Montgomery Advertiser
Location
Montgomery, Alabama
Page Section and Number
2
Author/Byline
AP
Article Text
WASHINGTON, May 1.—(AP)—Germany is "a nation entirely brutalized," Rep. Rains (D), Alabama, said today on his return from an inspection of German prison camps.

Rains, who visited Buchenwald and Oldruff camps at the request of Gen. Eisenhower, told a reporter his party found that German civilians, "men, women and children," regarded the atrocity camps as simply a part of war.

At Buchenwald, Rains said he saw a huge room in which bodies of the dead were hung from spikes "like coats on a rack."

He said he found children well-fed and women well-dressed in Germany "as a result of looting other countries of Europe." None seemed horrified, he said, when taken to view atrocities at the camps.

During two days and two nights in Germany, Rains said he observed that the worst atrocities were conceived as experiments by educated Germans, many of them with doctor's degrees from German universities on their walls.

Rains, a member of the House Banking Committee, went to England to discuss the Bretton Woods program. He went to view the German atrocity camps when General Eisenhower asked that members of Congress inspect them.
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