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Nazis Use Pneumonia Germs to Exterminate Jews in Holland

August 25, 1943
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The Office of War Information today reported that Netherlands Jews who are prisoners of the Nazis in the notorious Vught Concentration Camp are subjected to systematic exposure in an attempt to bring on pneumonia. The report is based on the testimony of a Hollander who recently escaped to England. His account said that prisoners were forced to walk nude for four miles to a hut for medical examination.

The informant also said that the Nazi commander of the camp ordered presentation at roll-call of bodies of all internees who had died since the previous roll-call and that prisoners were made to bring the corpses in wheel-barrows.

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