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Nazis Perfected Organized Crime Against Civilization and Humanity

WASHINGTON, May 15 A Congressional Mission reported today its inspection of German concentration camps forced the conclusion the Nazis carried out a "calculated and diabolical program of planned torture and extermination."
The mission, composed of six Senators and six Members of the House of Representatives, flew to Europe April 22 and spent most of a fortnight looking over the notorious camps at Dachau, Buchenwald and Nordhausen, Germany.
Organized Crime
In their report, the group termed the Nazi program of starvation, torture and unhonored death for slave laborers and political prisoners "no less than organized crime against civilization and humanity."
"Those who were responsible should have meted out to them swift, certain and adequate punishment," the report advocated.
In view, however, of the existence of the Allied War Crimes Commission, the committee said it did not believe any additional agency need be created.
Shocking Story
In general, it recounted the same shocking story of calculated misery and degradation made familiar by scores of articles from the scene.
Treating in detail on the establishment at Buchenwald, the law-makers said:
"Pictures and descriptions of the conditions at this camp cannot adequately portray what we saw there, and it is only when the stench of the camp is smelled that anyone can have a complete appreciation of the depths of degradation to which the German Nazi Government and those responsible for it . . . had dropped in their treatment of those
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who have failed to embrace the
doctrines of the Master Race'.

Damning Evidence
Concluding its recitation of the
damning evidence, the report as-
serted:

"The committee feels that out of
it all justice will emerge, and that
through the sickening spectacle
which we have witnessed of the
degradation to which human beings
have been subjected, will come
ultimately a firmer realization that
men of all nations and all tongues
must resist encroachment of every
theory and every ideology that de-
bases mankind, and that a more
just and enduring peace may arise
upon the ruins and from the sac-
rifices which the human race has
endured through one of the most
crucial periods of its history."