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	LEST WE FORGET
	Socialism would have wiped off the face of the earth all nations undesirable to it. Nazism perpetrated a crime on spiritual human values by creating a man with a superiority complex — a man utterly devoid of any scruples. Such men and all their followers are the murderers of both the body and the soul." After General Furby's testimony witness Helene Langevin-Solomon, ex-deputy of the French National Assembly, widow of the famous scientist Jacques Solomon, is called to testify before the Tribunal. She describes mass arrest in France in 1942. The husband of the witness together with many scientists was shot by the German henchmen. In March of that year the first transport from France left for Auschwitz, the second was sent in June, and then nearly every week trainloads of prisoners were sent from France to the Auschwitz death camp. In January 1943 Helene Langevin-Solomon was also imprisoned in Auschwitz. The witness states that 8,450 French children, all under the age of fourteen, were sent to Auschwitz. In the camp a promise was made to those children that they would shortly be reunited with their parents for good. "That time," emphasizes the witness, "the Germans solemnly kept their word, for those children followed their parents to the gas chambers and not one of them lived to be liberated." The witness describes the tragic fate of many famous French scientists and their families bestially murdered in the Auschwitz death factory. Completing that tragic list, abounding in the names of great scientists and of the best sons of France, the witness states that the Germans obviously wanted to destroy the brains of her country. Madame Solomon recognizes the woman Mandel among the accused and describes one selection carried out by Mandel. At that selection, next to the witness there stood a French woman singer who had an artificial limb. On Mandel's order all the women prisoners began a terrible race on which one's life depended. Mme. Solomon tried to help the crippled singer but Mandel noticed that manoeuvre, and knocked both women to the ground with a stick. The crippled singer was immediately sent to the death barrack. Answering the prosecutor's questions, witness Helene Langevin-Solomon gives detailed information about the several concentration camps on French territory and adds emphatically that the regime there was much less terrible than that applied to prisoners in the Auschwitz camp.
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