NAZI ILL-TREATMENT OF WOMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 8

NAZI ILL-TREATMENT OF WOMEN.

BRITISH TOURISTS’ PROTEST. MUNICH, Aug. 18. The medieval methods of punishment which Nuremberg Nazis apply to victims of their racial and political prejudices are, it would seem, to he extended to lawbreakers. Yesterday a party of Storm Troopers seized a woman who was recently sentenced t.o nine months’ imprisonment for having ill-treated her stepchild and made her walk through the streets bearing a huge placard,, on which wa.s written: —“I am a liar and unnatural mother.” It was intended to apply the same methods to a woman awaiting trial for infanticide, but the plan was abandon, ed at the last moment. It is understood that this was due to a letter written to the Nuremberg authorities by a party of British tourists who visited a cabaret on Sunday and witnessed the barbarous treatment of a young girl who had been found in the company of a Jew. The tourists, though disclaiming any desire to interfere in the municipal affairs of Nuremberg, felt it their duty to point out that such incidents must inevitably disgust all foreign visitors to the town. A Jew was yesterday taken away from a directors’ meeting at Nuremberg by some Storm Troopers to a “Nazi home” and only released after lie had been seriously beaten. His alleged offence appears to have been that the wages paid in his works were too low, a. charge difficult to substantiate in view of the fact that wages arc completely under Nazi control.