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one lad, standing by an Improvised Official Buchenwald a pingpong table, with a new racquet Army Report Symbol of Nazi Indecency and ball in his hand furnished by (Continued From First Page.) i the Red Cross, looking up at us with a smile as we entered the room. I Lists Buchenwald as they turn their affairs and their asked an interpreter to find out from mm « lives a over to superstate. the boy where be came from and Weimar, in normal times a city where his parents were. He was a Extermination Factory of some 50,000, is the approximate Polish Jew. He said his parents geographical center of Germany. killed. And all the rest of By EDWARD had been KENNEDY, Its name long has been associated the time we were there this little Associated Press Star Correspondent. with the best in German culture, in boy stood there, with the new ball in music and literature. It was the PARIS, April 28.—Buchenwald one hand and the racquet in the concentration camp is termed an home of the founder and the birth- other, trying to keep saddened tears of the movement which re- “extermination factory” in an place away, occasionally brushing his eyes official report to Supreme Head- sulted in the establishment of the with his coatsleeve. On his face first German republic. It lies in a quarters by Brig. Gen. Erich F was written all the tragedy and all beautiful countryside of perfectly Wood, Lt. Col. Charles Ott the wrong that this camp stands for. and tended farms and parklike forests. Chief Nobody knows what to do with these Warrant Officer S. M. Dye Its own and the appearance appear- boys, or what will become of them. who inspected it on its libera- ance of its well-fed and well- clean, In this same building, in an apart- tion by American clothed indicate all that troops. people ment occupied by a former comman- Not were exter- stands for and only prisoners decency, self-respect dant, were some of the souvenirs said minated by starvation, abuse, beat- comfortable prosperity. to have been collected by his wife, ings, torture, and unsanitary con- Groups of "Displaced Persons.” whose hobby evidently was the col- ditions, but many internees were We reached there by plane from lection of tattoo marks. Human used as "guinea pigs’’ for testing Paris in time for lunch. The air- skin bearing tattoo marks was said port was stacked high with supplies to hkve been used as new toxins and antitoxins, dying as lamp shades. for the front and crowded with lib- There were uncovered metal frames a result, the report declared. erated American and British pris- for lamp shades there, but the skins, Thomas R. Henry, Star war oners of war, and slightly wounded which looked like fine leather were correspondent, in a dispatch soldiers awaiting evacuation by in a table drawer. One story is that in The Star printed Tuesday, endless fleets of transport planes. the skin was taken from living men. Wrinkle-Resist reported that inmates of the On the road to Weimar we passed Another is that the man in charge Buchenwald Camp had been in- groups of "displaced persons”— of. the crematorium cut out interest- jected with typhus germs and Germans, Poles, Russians, French, ing tattoo specimens for the com- Italian, men, women and children— mandant’s wife. I do not know. All killed day by day so German plodding along in both directions I saw was the skin the physicians could observe the with tattoo toward home, wherever home might marks on it. effect of the of the EISENHOWER HEARS OF ATROCITIES —Gen. Dwight D. progress be. We lunched in Weimar at the Established In 1933. disease on their internal Eisenhower, with set face and folded arms, listens to a liberated organs. Elephant House, a spotless, modern According to Louis the slave laborer’s account of Nazi cruelties. —AP Lochner, The investigators were accom- hotel, run by its German staff un- Wirephoto. former distinguished chief of the panied on their inspection tour by der supervision of the occupying Associated Press Bureau in Benin, a of food Commandant Rene L’Hopital— Americans. We had taste the camp at Buchenwald was notori- wait- former aide-de-camp to Marshal and of service by impeccable ous as long ago as 1938. It was ers which recalled which Foch and personal friend of many dimly days established in 1933, according to an no exist in America. Americans—who had been interned longer official statement by investigators, we for and Mr. there during two months before And after lunch went to Bu- political prisoners, chenwald. The camp is situated Lochner told me that stories of the the camp was freed. In that time about six miles from Weimar. En- death of many people sent there his weight fell from 175 to 95 pounds. tering it one passes well-built, per- were ci/culating underground in Founded by Nazis. manent barracks erected for the Berlin before the war. The report said the camp was SS troops. In sharp contrast are Later on, when the war came, : founded by the Nazi party when the rows of temporary, single-story munitions factories and a quarry it came into power in 1933, and buildings—very much like the train- were opened near the camp and the had been in continuous operation ing camp installations at home— prisoners used as slave labor. There since then, though it had had its where the prisoners were housed. apparently was a change for the that time—the house largest populations only since the The camp 'area was surrounded by better about beginning of the war. Its SS guards the usual barbed wire fences and of prostitution was opened for the fled during the night of April 11, and | sentinel towers and still occupied prisoners and moving pictures and American armor overran the area by thousands of prisoners, staying other entertainment furnished. The 1I the next day. on because there was no place else Germans probably wanted to keep Later Twenty thousand prisoners were to go. Our first stop was at the their slaves contented. on, a found, including 2,900 French, 3,800 building previously used as a house when the Germans overran Poland, NORTHCOOL is Poles, 1.240 570 Russia. Prance and other countries, Hungarians, Yugo- of prostitution for favored prison- suit slavs, 4,380 Russians, 324 Dutch,'622 ers. The women, it is said, were thousands of new prisoners were tropical triumph! some of Belgians, 550 Austrians, 242 Italians, brought there under guise of see- jammed into the camp, A shape-retaining 2.105 Czechs, 1,800 Germans and ing their relatives and then im- them arriving after forced marches ill and 1.467 anti-Franco Spaniards and prisoned. Another account was that of hundreds of miles, weak, fabric woven to let the air in and miscellaneous nationalities. they were professionals. The build- emaciated. The food was poor, con- "Character of surviving popula- ing has now been converted to use sisting of turnip, potato or cabbage keep the heat out. Tailored and tion: Males only, including 1,000 as a and about on and a thick slice of bread as hospital, lying soup craftsmen. boys under 14 years old, intelligent- blankets were scores of the victims a daily ration. But many of the styled by expert Crisp, sia and leadership personnel from of malnutrition and disease, staring hundreds of inmates whom we saw w'hile full-bodied, quality-textured. Slip all of Europe.” the report continued. at us with blank, uncomprehend- appeared to be healthy others, "Any one and every one of out- ing eyes, more like animals than suffering from dysentery, typhus, into your size in a NORTHCOOL standing intellectual or moral qual- men. According to Brig. Gen. Frank tuberculosis and other diseases, were ifications, or of democratic or anti- A. Allen, jr., of SHAEF Press Re- living skeletons. The guide, Satnor, Tropical and feel how light it is on were five Nazi inclinations or their relatives. lations, who accompanied us. 30 or said that there categories shoulders. Sizes for all For instance, as to French inmates, 40 people still are dying each day, of prisoners, which he described as your men, they included four anti-Vichy in spite of plentiful food and medi- Jews, political prisoners, homo- of and double-breasted ... in members of Parliament. cal care, and during our visit a sexuals. criminals and members single Many Professional Men. corpse was lifted from the floor the religious sect which corresponds solid shades or patterns. "Professors of the Pasteur Insti- and carried out. with Jehovah’s Witnesses in America, and were tute, the University of Paris, the (An official report says the re- who refused to bear arms Every coat made otherwise of Caen, etc., cent death rate wras about 200 per imprisoned and disposed University eight high- with two inside breast ranking anti-Vichy generals, in- day. Five thousand seven hundred of. pockets One Jew to 5 Gentiles. cluding Gen. Vermeau, who was at died in February; 5.900 in March; with two extra buttons the first 10 of A Hamburg Jew. previously a law matching one time chief of staff, and the son 2,000 days April.) These Polish and slave Russian, Dutch laborers Interned at and Otto Feuer, who of one of them, and French Guide a student, sewn coat. engi- Political Prisoner. the Buchenwald concentration 160 each inside the editors and other camp averaged pounds said he had a brother in Syracuse neers, lawyers, Our was a guide political prisoner, prior to entering camp 11 months ago.