_Nevada State Journal_, May 14, 1946. "We saw the notorious
concentration camp at Dachau and we saw many of the others. It was
like descending into a pit of inconceivable horror. There were the
torture chambers and suffocation rooms. There were the great yawning
furnaces, each bearing a neat sign in German giving its capacity of
human bodies and working hours. There were the dog kennels and the
execution blocks.
"Perhaps the grisliest sight of all was the long row of huge boxes
piled to the top with gold fillings taken from the mouths of uncounted
victims who met death at the hands of the Nazis. On each box was the
official stamp of the Reich Bank.[40]
"Hitler and company were not only the most atrocious murderers, but
also the most audacious thieves. German workmen were paying him weekly
installments which were deducted for years from their wages for a
'Volkswagen,' a people's car, which they never received.
"All the foregone is not pleasant to hear. It shook my complacency,
but it was necessary for me to disclose these facts to you in their
nakedness with these terrible pictures as a warning.
"Our cruel, ignorant, and superstitious animal instinct combined with
our grasping money lust is the cause of it all. This greed will be our
eventual undoing. We always at all times hate somebody, and give vent
to our savageness in many different ways, such as burning old women as
witches at the stake, picking on weaker nations for plunder and war,
and visiting hatred, pogroms, insults, indignities, and injustices on
our minorities. It has been a constant round of wronging and injuring
others.
"Who could have predicted or believe fifteen years ago less then a
generation, in an era of our so-called civilization and Christianity,
that such atrocious inhumanity could take place?"
WHO IS GUILTY OF NAZI CRIMES?
"I have a high respect for the profession to which I belong, and the
reporting done by American and British correspondents during this
war, whether on the air or in the press represents a high mark in
journalism.
"Now these American correspondents, who are not engaged in spreading
atrocity stories, give detailed reports of the most cold-blooded mass
murder in human history. This is not the first time that American
correspondents have told the world what was going on. They told of the
mass murders being committed in Germany, in 1933, and the world did
not listen.
"Members of the British House of Commons or the American Congress,
visited Nuremberg party rallies, sought audiences with Adolf Hitler
and came home to brag about them. A former American President visited
Hermann Goering, as did many American businessmen. They visited him
and some thought we could do business with the Nazis very nicely.
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