- Headline
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Girls Whipped to Death by Nazis
- Publication Date
- Saturday, April 28, 1945
- Historical Event
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Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors
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- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- PARIS, April 28.—(AP)—Three French girls were stripped and whipped to death in the presence of 250 American soldiers in a German prison camp, M. E. Walter, managing editor of the Houston Chronicle and a member of the editors' party investigating German camps, said today.
Walter quoted Sgt. William Sandler, a Kentuckian, who said he witnessed the murders and later saw the whips.
'The sergeant said the Germans had discovered the Frenchwomen and the Americans were mutually helping each other in the camp and they were determined to halt it," Walter related. "The prisoners were assembled one morning and the women, all of whom were young, were lined up in front of them and forced to undress.
"German guards then took cat-o'-nine-tails and beat them until they died. The sergeant said it took only about 20 minutes." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Carlos G.
- Location of Research
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