The Yugoslav War Crimes Commission has indicted Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, a Nazi named Schwartz who was chief of the Oswiecim death camp, and several supervisors at the camp, charging them with responsibility for the extermination of 2,500,000 persons, mainly Jews, from the time the camp was established until October, 1943, the New Yugoslav Telegraph Service reports today.
On one occasion, a commission report said, 7,000 Jewish inmates of the camp were sent to a neighboring wood where inflammable liquid was poured over them and they were burned alive. The next day some of the prisoners were forced by the Germans to scatter their ashes over the farms attached to the camp.
All sick persons and women over 50 were thrown into fires and burned alive, the report added. In one night 94 truckloads of men were incinerated. During the German retreat from the Ukraine six truckloads of children were burned to death, while their mothers looked one. Many of the parents became insane.
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