The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1945 Page: 3 of 12
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Sft. Boyd Anthony Writes Of
Nazi Atrocities at Bnchenwald
Concentration Camp in Germany
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- Following Is a Tettej from Sgt.,
Boyd Anthony, former vice-presi- even as the people <?> In the
dent of the 8tate National Bank nearby town
and IS men slept In a bed. The 120-31; women torn from their stain remain on Oermany. Well
bed was perhaps about five feet families all over Europe It made might Shakespeare arise from his
square and was a five story affair, no difference tf they were mar- grave today and say “Judiment
The celling of the room was at Tied and the mothers of children, hath fled to brutish beasts and
the most 7 feet high so you can The “super race” bad to have men have lost thels reason.
picture how much room there was women to satisfy the lusts of its j wont' attempt to discuss in
between beds. And 15 men slept army. These women were «ub-.thl8 jctter what j thl J**
rife’s
morning and If he had diarrhea, wore all women and perhaps there UKalnst clvtllaiUon and human?
as many of them had. he also were some that believed in that jty can never ^ atoned for What
stayed until morning. For food ideal that I hope is being fought kirfd of future can Europe have?
they had rooU and moUIdy pot.- for In the world today. What can of ch“dren ^ thele
toes and bread. These rapn fought j Human excretion Is '’all about hundreds of thousands of wom*n
over what little garbage there was the camp, for these miserable that were playthings for the Ger-
Mrs E. La Hull and
Marqulta, of Dallas, spent
week-end with Mrs. Kata Cun-
ningham and Catherine.'.
the SUte tl«P
annual crop
to 45.000,000
can
■ ~ . tryrri vumi iihic K<U UltgC Were WHS inC C&mP,
of Comanche, to hie wife, telling and lived. And* wh.T was “their gff gj Xi5, glft'jJSS SZt*™ £ *“‘k h^’ Jhe5'
^ld^ C^^in^ea^rmanyC^Sgt"' to^this^Hell^^on wthT^^ly6"1 ‘them ^lowlv the” weiw^hrfS1 JLfiSfn* b children And what
Anthony was a recent visitor at firm belief
this camp. a belief th-* ™ ance or rood in Germany. Not erperlence, but it was a trip I Many generations will pass before
fancy food perhaps, but there U am glad I made. And I hope that Europe is again populated with
plenty. One only has to go thru every man and women overseas clean, healthy, normal human be-
Somewhere In Germany
April 36, 1945
Dear Stella:
This is a reprodhctlon of a
empty
smell oi rood on;to the latrine that was so con- bear children? And what kind of
them. Slowly they were being veniently placed aeveral hundred children can the men that #ere
m belief in the right, of mmt.!.gSSL£ i ??* ?rom. .VM ntr?1, byrgclu. lmn.te. of tho« camps engender
belief that was oDoosed to the naa vieniy ana mere is an abund- No, the visit was not a pleasant If indeed they can engender any?
SSrLHff ^ ™ ance of food in Germany. Not erperlence, but it was a trip I Many generations will doss before
who Is In the ohtlit and made
a
ideas of the Oerman nation, ao
they were interned In Buchen-
wald concentration camp.
We got one or the inmates of
letter written by one of the lads,^ to take us thru. They
seem glad to do it and their en-
Then
av.to the concentration camp tire attitude is one of wanting to
at B^henwald, which I am send- bring home to the world the beast-
lng to you, as I think the people
back home should know of some
of the conditions that exist in
this country. You have read about
this in the papers believing It was
tail propaganda but it is all trut.
Several of the members of this
outfit have visited this camp.
Germany Is a nation without, ^arks in which
a conscience and without ‘a soul,1 wa, broken and
llty of the German. The boy was
an Austrian, 33 years old. His
mother and father were killed in
this camp. He was a pitiful spec-
tacle whose every movement was
a study In animation. First we
saw some of the instruments of
torture that were used. The
a man’s back
was broken ana the whipping
a German house to find that out.
We were taken to (he “hos-
pital". I wouldn’t take a sick dog
or cat to the place that looked
like that, let alone a human be- German is
Ing. “Operations’' were perform-
ed in the presence of all. Blood
was on the floor and around the
table on which the ’’Derations’’
in the Allied armies 1s able to lngs.
VWt 0St-h°in.thSi whoV'SHfli l ™* letter *» » I will
perhaps the whole would close. Now I hope you can see
dill realise just how depraved the why x uy that lf *u of u* fl()rlnK
I flowers In the world were put In
And Is the German the least jC-nnany their perfume could not
bit remorseful, the least bit hide foul and fetrld odor that
. - _
the triggwr that speeds a bullet no longer clalir. kinship with the
on its way to kill a person to be1*
and as an individual takes on the-p^ whereon a man was spread-
characteristics of the environment eaglcd. his feet barely off the
in which she is placed, so have ground and flogged by a well fed,
was finished the men were put
Sf“ty of murder? We •"kno*
the individual German become a
person without a conscience and
without a soul. And when a nation
-4tr an Individual loses Its con-
sciense and its soul, then that
nation ceases to be a human crea-
husky 68 trooper. These were on-
ly minor things compared to the'
rest. ' ■ , . .y'
We went to the crematorium,
a building with a dozen or more
tlon and reverts to the level of the furnaces in it. The furnaces were
s.va«e St ^d fir miSg ,th* n<?r cI~n
4 that comparison I tender my alX>l* I
of the and we saw bones in some
ogles to the most savage
untamed beasts of the forest.
I have gone thru the concen
i som
and in some partially burned
bodies. And we were told that
of those burned were not
tration camp at Buchenwald. Tf
wish that I could trust make that yet a person was ill they
flat sUtement and let it go at J th^ “
that, but if I did I would be a and lf.at end two days he
traitor to everything that I hold JJJi Uh b 1s i?
dear and to every principle tojfw1*0? he would go, dead or alive,
which I hdlcve. K I IUM to
wonder that 51,000 were killed in
10 months in that camp. I say
killed advisedly, because none that
died, died a natural death, but
their deaths were all the result of
German brutality.
And then we were taken to an-
other room perhaps 40x40 feet In
dimension and 7 feet high. In
this room were kept over 400 chil-
dren between the ages of 2 and
three years old: Picture that lf
you can. The abuse of a child has taken on
always seemed to me to be the the army
vilest thing that can be done and the army that took it. And do
all those I know about what I
saw there, then I would be a co-
ward and a traitor to the Ideals
In which I hold dear; if I failed’
to reveal what I saw, horrible as
the telling mist be, then my par-
ents have failed In their attempts
to teach and guide me. So I must
tell you what .1 saw and if in ths
telling I for the briefest moment
arouse you, then I have not fail-
ed and I have accomplished what
I set out to do In this letter. I
shall neither enlarge or diminish
what I saw, but set the facts be-
fore you and let you see them
also.
j The camp is located tn a for-
est and altho wild life is abund-
ant in Germany there was none
In this forest. No birds were sing-
ing in the trees: no squirrels were
flaying on the ground; none of
the small creatures of the woods
were to be seen. All was silence,
silence that was once tom by the
1 shrieks of the tortured and the
whimperings of the beaten. The
tall chimneys that once belched
- forth the smoke and stench of
burning bodies now pollute the
skllne. grim, silent and lifeless, as
lifeless as many of the bodies
_ bodies they once consumed. It Is
small wonder that God’s little
creatures fled the forest of evil.
For it is only man that can wit-
ness and partake of man's In-
humanity to man. There is noth-
ing lovely about the forest. It la
gaunt, solemn, and forboding.
Even the tops of the trees turn
away from the camp so as not to
witness the horror and degrada-
tion of it. And yet in a nearby
W«re overpoweringly present in
that room. The doors, as I have
Said, gaped open, and It seemed
as lf they were asking for more
human bodies. I shuddered when
I saw it and I shudder still.
'There is a yard adjacent to the
crematorium. In this yard were
plied the bodies that were going
to be burned and hundreds of
the bodies were still there. Emac-
iated individuals that bore little
resemblance I to human beings.
Their very bones protrued from
their tightly drawn skins as rocks
‘ protrude from a road^ And on
their faces were the expressions
of utmost terror and agony. Be-
ing in the army you got used to
the idea of death, but neveir -in
my wildest imagination have I
pictured anything as gruesome as
that pile of bodies. In typical
German fashion they were very
neatly piled, just as if they were
so many pieces of firewood, as
Indeed to the Germans they were.
On a cart in the ySfd were
hundreds of more bodies. Qh yes.
they were able to get hundreds
of bodies on a cart because by
the time the Germans got thru
with these men. an adult was lit-
tle bigger than a small child. The
bodies on the cart were thrown on
haphazardly awaiting the hand
that would place them on that
neat orderly pile. All of the bodies
were completely unclad. Why
waste clothes on the dead. Their
clothes war* given to tne living
dead. I took pictures of all of
this wnen I was tnere. So. if they
come out. and I hope they do,
too can see what I saw and
town, a town that gave birth to'you 100 can see wnat I aa^
the German Republic and to one! realize that it was so. I didn t
of the world's greatest poets,|have any color film so you wont
Goethe, people (?) lived.- and
laughed, and loved. I can see now
how Oothe was able to write Faust
because there is something Meph-
ostillam about all Qermans in
Germany. They are not human.
We drove Into the camp and
were directed to a parking place
by an armed American soldier.
There were several vehicles at the
camp and that is good. What I
saw at the camp should’ be seen
«by all the world. We parked the
jeep and walked a few hundred
feet to the camp entrance. We
walked thru the gates and stop-
ped and stared unbelievingly. Ob-
jects that were once men were
shuffellng along or standing look-
ing at ufe.' Emaciated, wasted,
clother in rags, dirty and unkempt,
the suffering of the ages on their
faces, these were once men that
lived, and laugifcd, end lived.
be able to see the pools f blood
by these bodies, blood that drip-
ped from their wounds as they
came from the torture chambess,
but It is there.
And undfraeath the cremator-
ium was. the hanging roegn. Here
the inmates were hung. Hung not
so as to break their necks, but so
as to> strangle them and if a per-
son objected to being strangled, a
huge trenchem was there to quiet
him. The man being hong was
hauled up above the floor so that
his feet barely cleared ahd in this
fashion he was left to die. The
torture chambers of Atilla the
Him were no worse than those of
his modern counterpart.
We went thru the barracks,
small buildings holding hundreds
of men. And of course there were
modem conveniences for the men.
They were given one blanket each
calculated abuse is something that
I nannot comprehend, even after
I have seen it. And that is true
of the whole camp. I have read
about these things, I have seen
pictures of them, but yet I didn’t
believe it. Now I have seen it with
my own eyes and I still don’t be-
lieve it. A civilized being cannot
comprehend the utter bestiality of
the German nation.
We were next shown another
part of the camp. This part was
in much better condition than the
rest. The barracks were clean and
there was grass on the^gound. In
this portion of the camp were
kept the women that were used
to entertain the German troops
guarding the camps and torturing
its inmates. Young women, we
were told between the ages of
that isn’t so. That the German
nation knows what was going on
is a fact that is apparent. Some-
think like Buchenwald and the
rest of the concentration camps
could not be hlddeh. And by fail-
ing to do something about these
conditions, even underground,
they became accomplices in the
greatest nuu murderers in all his-
tory. The people of this particular
town where the camp is located
have all gone thru it. They were
a conducted tour by
officials in charge of
human race. The Devil must also
have a hand in the creation of a
human being <?). Because no one.
created In Ood’s Image or with the
spirit of God in him could do
what the Qermans have done. i
On the way back we ran Into a
continual rainstorm, and In fact
It was raining while we were at
the camp. Yes, even the heavens
were shedding God’s humble tears
for the unfortunates there, but
even those humble tears could not
cleanse the sight from the earth.
these people feel ashamed, do they
feel remorseful, do they feel con-
trite or penitent? No, of course
not. When they see one of the
inmates in town they don’t hang
their heads In shame or attempt
in any way to make amends. No,
instead they look at him and go
on about their business and laugh
while doing it. And according to
our army paper, Stars and Stripes,
they even have ornaments made
from the skins of these poor dev-
ils. The German nation has be-
come the counterpart of Lady
Macbeth and well1 might it cry,
"Out damned spot will all the
waters in Christendom ever cleanse
these hands”? Well might it wring
its hand and rub and rub. but
it shall be in vain. As long as
man endures so long shall the
He: “I’ve named my new air-
plane ‘Poison’.’’
She: “Poison? Why?”
He: “Because . . . one drop and
you’re dead.”
NOTICE
TO TAXPAYERS
JUNE 30
IS LAST DAY TO PAY 1944 TAXES
WITHOUT ADDITIONAL EXPENSE
Delinquent Taxes
~ On and aftar July 1st, interest on 1944 taxes will ,
^ 6% per annum and an additional 8% penalty
will m added I
If you have bought or sold land this year, be sure that
it is rendered properly on the tax roll. *
Thanks For Your Cooperation,
J. E. Liqhtfoot
COMANCHE COUNTY ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1945, newspaper, June 22, 1945; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth841629/m1/3/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.