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Show 2,000,000 Jews Slain by Nazis Polish Paper in London Says They Were Killed In Death House. LONDON. Polish Labor Fights, a publication issued here, recently printed an account of a house maintained main-tained by the Germans at Treblinka, Poland, for the extermination of Jews. In this place alone, it is said, the Germans have killed 2,000,000 persons. The account of the executions opens with an announcement the Germans pinned up on the station where the victhns arrive: "You may be easy in your mind as to the future," the notice read. "You are going to the east to work ' and your wives will have care of your households. Before you leave you must have a bath and your clothing must be deloused. Your property will be restored to you in proper condition." Obey Order to Disrobe. Men, women and children comply with the order for disrobing and then, states Polish Labor Fights, comes the first scene in the last act of the Treblinka tragedy. The article arti-cle continues: ' "Children with women go first, urged on by whips of the Germans. Faster and faster they are driven and thicker and thicker fall the blows on heads paralyzed with terror ter-ror and pain. The silence of the woods is shattered by the screams of women and the oaths of Germans. "The victims now realize their doom is near. At the entrance of the death house the No. chief himself him-self drives them to cells, freely using a whip. The floor of the cell is slippery. Some fall and are unable un-able to rise because of the pressure of those behind. Small children are flung over the heads of the women. "When the cells are filled they are closed and sealed. Steam is forced through apertures and suffocation of the victims begins. At first cries can be heard but these gradually subside and after 15 minutes all is silent. The execution is over. I Like Slaughtered Animals. "When the trap is opened to let the bodies drop down they fall in a compact mass, stuck together by the heat and steam. Cold water is sprayed on them with a hose after which the grave diggers pile the corpses on a platform like the carcasses car-casses of slaughtered animals. "Often a gravedigger is too weak to carry two bodies, as ordered, so he ties arms or legs together and runs to the burial ground, dragging them behind him. "The execution of men is carried out in the same way. They are driven along the same path through the woods. On their way to death the reactions of the victims differ. Some blaspheme, but are eventually silenced by blows. "At times not all victims can be squeezed into the death cells at once and those remaining are kept near the house of death. They can see and hear all that takes place but are so numbed in their senses that there is no sign of the instinct of selfpreservation. "This is clear proof of the condition condi-tion to which they have been reduced re-duced by ill treatment and starvation." |