cancer of the womb at Auschwitz, of typhus at
Buchenwald, anatomical research at Natzweiller, heart injections at
Buchenwald, bone grafting and muscular excisions at Ravensbrück,
etc.), gas chambers, gas wagons, and crematory ovens. Of 228,000
French political and racial deportees in concentration camps, only
28,000 survived.
In France systematic extermination was practiced also, notably at
Asq on 1 April 1944, at Colpo on 22 July 1944, at Buzet-sur-Tarn on 6
July 1944 and on 17 August 1944, at Pluvignier on 8 July 1944, at
Rennes on 8 June 1944, at Grenoble on 8 July 1944, at Saint Flour on
10 June 1944, at Ruisnes on 10 July 1944, at Nimes, a' Tulle, and at
Nice, where, in July 1944, the victims of torture were exposed to the
population, and at Oradour-sur-Glane where the entire village
population was shot or burned alive in the church.
The many charnel pits give proof of anonymous massacres. Most
notable of these are the charnel pits of Paris (Cascade du Bois de
Boulogne), Lyons, Saint-Genis-Laval, Besançon,
Petit-Saint-Bernard, Aulnat, Caen, Port-Louis, Charleval,
Fontainebleau, Bouconne, Gabaudet, Lhermitage Lorges, Morlaas,
Bordelongue, Signe.
In the course of a premeditated campaign of terrorism, initiated
in Denmark by the Germans in the latter part of 1943, 600 Danish
subjects were murdered and, in addition, throughout the German
occupation of Denmark, large numbers of Danish subjects were
subjected to torture and ill-treatment of all sorts. In addition,
approximately 500 Danish subjects were murdered, by torture and
otherwise, in German prisons and concentration camps.
In Belgium between 1940 and 1944 tortures by various means, but
identical in each place, were carried out at Brussels, Liége,
Mons, Ghent, Namur, Antwerp, Tournai, Arlon, Charleroi, and Dinant.
At Vught, in Holland, when the camp was evacuated about 400
persons were murdered by shooting.
In Luxembourg, during the German occupation, 500 persons were
murdered and, in addition, another 521 were illegally executed, by
order of such special tribunals as the so-called
"Sondergericht". Many more persons in Luxembourg were
subjected to torture and mistreatment by the Gestapo. Not less than
4,000 Luxembourg nationals were imprisoned during the period of
German occupation, and of these at least 400 were murdered.
Between March 1944 and April 1945, in Italy, at least 7,500 men,
women, and children, ranging in years from infancy to extreme old age
were murdered by the German soldiery at Civitella, in the Ardeatine
Caves in Rome, and at other places.