INMATE OF GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP FINDS PEOPLE ARE UNABLE TO BELIEVE EXPERIENCES ‘AN ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE ACCOUNT OF THE HORRORS OF A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP WAS GIVEN HERE ‘YESTERDAY BY A MAN WHO SURVIVED THREE TERRIBLE MONTHS IN THE MOST INFAMOUS CAMP OF ALL, HE 1S PVT. FRANK Me SHURMAN, CO. B OF THE 7TH, AND HIS SERIOUS EYES ARE JUST BUCKENWALD. WHEN HE SUFFERED WITH HIS FATHER AND BEGINNING TO REGAIN THE SPARKLE OF FORMER DAYS, LO@¥F AT THE OF CTHERS THOUSANDS OF H{TLER#@® HANDS HENCHMEN, - SHURMAN, WHO HAS GIVEN SEVERAL LECTURES BEFORE CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY, WHENEVER | "THERE 1S ONE THING THAT | WOULD LIKE TO SAY. BEGAN HIS STORY IN THIS MENNER: T STRUCK ME THAT | HAVE SPOKEN TO PEOPLE 1N AMERICA ABOUT THE HAPPENINGS IN NAZI@GERMANYe | TRIED T, BEWILDERMEN SUPERFICIAL EVEN SOMETIMES , UNBELIEVING WAS LISTENED TO WITH A SCRT OF ALL WHAT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES 1T SO DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE HERE TO GRASP THE FULL MEANINGg OF US EXPERIENCED WHC HAVE ESCAPED THE HELL OF NAZISM, SPOKEN WORDS MIGHT BE TOO LIMITED, TOO UNIMPRESSIVE, TO TRANSFER THE SCENES OF THE BESTIALITIES TO THE MIND OF THE LISTENER," IF 17 18 SO HARD TO BELIEVE WHEN YOU HEAR HIM TELL IT TO YOU IN PERSON, THEN TSLE, SOLDIER, READ IT THIS IS NO PROPAQANDA WORD WILL BE EVEN LESS CONVINCING, "FROM SHURMAN SAID, STOP AND THINK ABOUT ITs MAYBE YOU WON'T BELIEVE 1T EITHER, ME TO FOR HORRISLE TOO BE CAN NOTHING GFRMBNY, OF SUT COMES TH*T BELIEVE ANYTHING BORN IN THE WAS IN FEET 1N THE NORTHERN YEARS FROM 1933 OF THE GESTAPO. EVENTFUL THE PATH AND 4GO YEARS 28 THE ON BEATING DCOR OF GERMANY, PArT HERALDED THE OF THE APRIVAL HITLER'S WATCHED SHURM4N CLASSED AS NON.ARYAN TO 1938, IT YAS THE EVENING OF NOV, 9, THE PRINTED *NO THEN Now CN | WILL BELIEVE." RISE TC POWER THE FAMILY BY THE THIRD REICH, L938 WHEN A LOUD TRAMPING OF DREADED TO TO INTO BUCHENWALD, THEIR LOVED A CROWDED TRAIN EVERY MINUTE HELD CNES LEFT BEHIND, WITH CTHER OF THOUSANDS MEN, THEY | POLICE, SEC ET ARRESTING SHURMAN ANDO HIS FATHER, THE GESTAPC HAULED THEM CFF TO A DARK CELL WITH CTHER "TWO SHOTS FO? THE YOUNG THEY WERE BROUGHT OUT IN A COURTYARD AND CRDERED TO BE SH*T, MENe T SMELLS TOO MUCH," SPOT, ONE IN ALL THEM BURY ONE, FIVE SHOTS FOR CLDER MEN AND DON'T BUT THE SHCCTING NEVER CAME$ IT WAS LATER LEARNED THAT THEY JUST SAID THE NAZI OFFICER, WANTED TO "SCARE" THE PRISONERSS* ~ PACKED © , | WERE SCON TERROR FOR THE MEN WHO HAD NC IDEA OF WHAT THEY. FINALLY ARRIVED AT A STATION WHERE'S ON WAS THEIR | WAY HAPPENING "YOUNG NAZI WARRIORS CF 18 AND 20, FULLYmARMED, DROVE BEFORE THEM THE AGED AND SICK LIKE CATTLE WE WERE HERPED INTO THE UNDER PASS OF THE ST’TICN, ACROSS THE STATION PLATFORM, THEY ACCOMPANY THEIR HE MADMEN DRIVING US ON TOGETHERe THESE OF RIFLES THE OF THE GUTTS WEEKS OR YOUFLL GO TO -FOUR IN 'YCU DIRTY PIGS WILL GE DEAD ROIC DEEDS WITH SONGS OF HATES} YOUR ANCESTORS PACKED &, wie IN EGGCRATES,'” .- HIGHeVCLTAGE WIRE FENCES SURRCUNDED THE HUGE WERE CROWDED: IN, WITH LITTLE CR NO PROTECTION FROM BY THE GESTASO, AGLE TO GET 3EFOCRE 2EING ARRESTED THERE WAS OF IT, TASTED $@ GAD THAT SHURMAN HAD TO PRISON WHERE THOUSANDS °F MEN SUCH AS SHURMAN THE COLD OTHER THAN THE CLOTHES THEY WERE SANITATION WOS UNKNOWN AND THE FOOD, WHAT M4KE HIS FATHER EAT IT TC KEEP UP HIS j STRENGTH, ONE WHIPPING OF THE PQST, MANY BRUTAL’ PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED "FIRST EVENING OF GUR ARRIVAL, WE WERE PUNISHMENTS: AFTER ROLL CALL, THE NUMDERS LOUDSPEAKERS, A SHIPPING POST WAS STANDING FOR COMMANDER, ROESEL, WITH HIS ADJUTANT, : ON THE PRISONERS 3Y THE SS MEN WAS THE GREETED WITH ONE °F THE MILDEST AND MCST FREQUENT OF FOUR POLITICAL PRISONERS WERE CALLED 9UT SY IN FRONT OF HEADQUARTERS$ BESIDE IT STCOD THE THE.FIRST TIME WE SAW AND HEARD THIS MIDOLE AGE (CONTINUED ON PAGE J7) 3 ~ (0= ‘