[rol Consciousness ible. ine heal Lab et Nn that & Rid couldnot help ere ae eho had displayed the very PEP creating Indust peer Hn the light of these equipment: IV. Lare 1s From The the at Wol- nigswiisterhausen, in 1929 Tr Agricultural Commit- ily are For three Agricultural apne Kor e Jewis 2 oe aJe btn fly re poor, and, as the pupils at this schoo! Bi Fea not have to pay for either tuition or board and lodging, I was sent to stady there, Besides, the teaching was supposed to be the best in Germany, { and the school, being new, was very i Well fitted up. The farm belonging to it had livestock and all the latest equip- ment, including tractors, which you had to learn to drive dead straight across afield of barley. Thad my cer- tifcate as a farm driver. In the eve- nings, after my work on the farm, I learned bookkeeping and typing. This Yyear they started giving me 17 marks & week for my work. ie drsor af the school, Dr. about 30 of the 4g pupils. ‘Beaire Fema fol Bees ing; carpentry, tailoring anf «hon fitking, and the workshops of exch Were in first-class order. Our making _ About the middle of May some §. A, By A PRISONER ‘Times, London Conservative Daily may appear, you will py soul and centre of the G I that we are now ws anxiously. The spirit ig ike a man asleep, a Nazt Camp village came to hey soon decided ¢h would do nicely for quarteriny tary labor contingents, Nothing h; pened till June 20. T got ap morning at about §.30 and fetch corn to feed the chickens, Treached the house again I say fellow pupils and the staff star a line in front of a group of Sd Twas roughly told to line up we were forced to climb ant lorries that the Nazis had bro the door longings | get inte with iror men fro! the school. d_ hard-rubber eu Then the S.A. leaders st their motor-cars while we fe the lorries, each of which with a machine gun. We wet tight, thirty each lorry. The S.A. Berlin and belonged to ments of the Storkow were all heavily armed. After an hour’s drive we Adolf Hitler Haus in the’ in Berlin, where we ha about three hours. We lowed to get out of the crowd collected round us men told everybody toNocembey mmary Perceive German watching t wning eee they the led thug ing volun. hing hap. up that ns. When v all my anding in A. men, nto four ought to i our be- hurry to beatae cudgels, d off in owed in s armed packed of us in ne from detach- . They hed the strasse jait for not al- and a e S.A. 1s well, INTERNATIONAL Moya and our fathers had we ere ny of all its money sine Byes Germ” re eople heard that sed When the PeoP Beit Me ewe were beaten peed rely the Beets ferries moved off again pelast the Uoken to the concentra- pave 8 Granienburg, about half Gre? ative from Berlin. We ar- ja tout’ peciging that had formerly ef att Mh plant, and were told to spews plant, and wer tol Wet Tipe about three hours By upright in a line in aor before they let us in Beto co sit down he was beaten tne mere taken upstairs to arm where © mat feeraphs in. three p : mou fingers’ mer everything from 0} i ; Pers fourth wrote dovn a descriptio feach of us. Next we : ile of straw an d tol ld to : Wit as we needed V 3 hi then went into a rere told was the pl ture we should sleep, alylive. Each was give : ieofe and a piece of b! if tatfist food for the day a fecareful not to complain Nett day the camp rot forus, We had to get up B toming and do two hou ad filtary training. This instrction in handling ng fover during air raids, in preparing to Be eetgas attacks, and in drill of every Mitd: Then came breakfast—a cup of Mallee and two slices of black bread ; ith jam. Manual work occupied us tnill twelve, when we had a pint of GACY soup mixed with beans. On } an tice was added and, if you ped You were given a slice of 60. Work continued until late SURVEY Ri ary in the day, and there were hours of military training unger ore supervision of discharged soldiers whe had enrolled as S.A."men, We wera then given another cup of coee With fome more bread, and finally went to bed on our heaps of straw. The youn est of us, Manfred Benjamin, age only, 13» received the same treat as the others and spent most of time in tears, Ce Soon after my arrival a Nazi asked me if I could use a typewriter, I ree plied that I could, and he took me to the commandant of the nt f the amp, Captain er, who gave me a job in the : ee. Here Tl ned something about how the camp was run and had a chanes to talk to some of the promi nent prisoners, such as the managing director of the German Broaden Company and the mayors of several of the smaller towns. I found there were about 2,500 prisoners in the camp, of wh only 5 per cent were Jews. The re Communists, Social Demo= 1 other political enemies of Hitlerism. On August 18 about 102 S.A. men who had been ‘lazy’ were brought in for punishment. ‘They underwent the same treatment as the others, except that they were not beaten. The routine was much the same for all the prisoners, although the Jews were made to keep to them selves and had to live in an enclosure about 25 yards square at one end of the camp. Prominent prisoners were punished more often than the others but everybody had his full share of beating, especially when. the Nazis came back late in the evening from the neighboring beer saloon. Then they would come into the great hall and! beat some of the prisoners savagely. {They would also sprab them truely crats,‘THE LIVING AGE Nowemsy sat pr) nd ings, these were put in 1 divided among the S.A. pe week. bia prominent Prison very nthe rived they were quest ‘a ate ee commandin ete them Oh The pers or weapons belonging pS munists were hidden and to answer quickly if the to be ‘helped.’ ‘Help? fer ny rounded by a When Herr Braun, of the Bppetiil as Sigeven ordinary ing Company, came down from oi trie live wire. We commandant’s room he had had suey and an elec near it by red a bad time that his eyes Were doy ed noe awe yards from it and he could hardly see. Ohelgy etthe camp garrison consisted boy’ asked him if he would ikeggh allalong Tye rh, divided into two water to bathe his eyes, big jaa of about So° Pethich was always on swered that he was afraid eal Fase Twenty men were posted on the only get into trouble if we diganm roof of the main building with machi him and, in any case, he hag and twenty more stood round ‘finish with life. A Others were on guard at various posts were controlled by places inside and outside the camp. s, who opened all thelletter There was no chance of escaping. At | in the camp and carefully night the camp was lit by searchlights, polish with black boot Bo f all ove ihe nextday cosee tt Foon washed off yet: If not, sorubbed the eae a2 a PERE vashing. viol and one hydrant for washing: ordered, Ke i The camp d-wire fen sored them, Prisoners Werelneige and guards would come into the hall al to their own envelopes where wesleptand flash torcheson the but had to hand their letters open fg prisoners. S.A. men. Once a week they mightre: My work in the office was to keep cei cls weighing up to eleven accounts, typewrite messages, and pounds, which were usually nobintenim take fingerprints. I discovered that the cepted. On Sundays from 2 to 47am camp had belonged at first only to the they could be visited by theirrelations Nazis and had been taken over by the _who might bring them presents, dell Government on April 22, Every pris of cou were controlled, When Onet Was kept for a minimum of eight was reported that ‘foreign aeroplanes Weeks and few had been released. had flown over Berlin,’ the. of They were all made to exchange every mandant called us together and eee nse for camp money on us that as a punishment we! bg for tha ee fo pay 2.50 marks a receive no visits for three weeks , Bo wadach; the state provided letters for one week, and no/lunch oF In practice, the S.A, ‘ The camp guard was a u a S.A. men, common people: was needed in the lowest kind. They get one mark full day’s work and are given board and lodging free. Every day they did military training the camp. al belong.n a little forest near commandant and the fe anders were S.S, (Schurz pater On these are enrolled from fe) MN ses and the old nobility Heo fhe bodyguard of the Nazi * e better armed, and men are slack they stir The result is that S.S. and : nother; when the inspect the camp they feily quarrel with the S.A. 5, came ed genet both were drunk, as often en pean had tired of beating Mp hey would fight among Benes they would figl g es. Bare eminent_ prisoners included Iuny members of the Reichstag and MikeLandtag. Dr. Ludwig Levy, the fate attorney of Potsdam, and the unaging director of the Berlin Traffic Gmpiny had both been arrested in March and Kept in the camp ever Gee, Well-known peo these were beaten every day juently deprived of lunch and visits. Two men tonmitted suicide while I was there: Hermann Hagendorf, of Anhalt, who tat the veins of his wrist, and Walter Klasch, who hanged himself with his $at, Most of the prisoners dared not ‘ayaword after they had been beaten, but all night you could hear them gomning. When they were released they all had to sign two papers—a Miite one saying that the living con- INTERNATIONAL SURVEY V. Jazz in JAPAN ditions in the cam, blue one b i ‘© by which the be good citizens in fey The camy é 'P Was run accore whim oe of the commandant Grate arms a Communists t last, on August 22, mandant decided reed ie who had only been arrested because re Government had no cheaper way of providing for us after they had taken over our school. He came at about 10.30 pat. and told us we had two minutes to leave the camps if we were not gone by that time we should never be let out at all. We went as fast as we could down the road to Berlin, and passed the night under a hedge about five miles from the camp. Eatly the next morning I went to a barber's shop and telephoned to the Jewish Agricultural Committee to come and fetch us. They brought us to Berlin in motor-cars, and there we slept in beds with sheets on them for the first time for two months. A A few days later, as I had a driving license, I managed to get a job as chauffeur to a lady who wanted to go to Switzerland, where my family were. At last we reached our destination, St. Gall, and I was safe. of By Proresson Leorotp WINKLER ibe Translated from the Neue Freie Presse, Vienna Liberal Daily. ae ora B Be a ne ROPEAN and American fads amazing force ii a ave ee it Ea te the Orient. a i 7 vith they (oe f9 Teach Japan. But when of the On eee E do arrive they catch hold with