German police at Aachen have discovered the entire registration files of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, it was learned today.
The files include the names of 150,000 non-German prisoners–mostly Jews–the records of the camp hospital and the death files. Many entries in the death files, in the handwriting of supervising Gestapo personnel, end with “shot while attempting to escape.” According to the Aachen police these handwritten remarks would be of value in prosecuting the Gestapo men on war crimes charges.
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