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Pril 22, 1961, is the 91st anniversary of the birth of

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mie tow founder of the Soviet state. Above is a painting
Stu ent enin Among Children”. Picture below shows Soviet

on S at an exhibition of competition projects for a
—hument to Lenin, and the building of Palace of Soviets.

OPEN FORUM —

Automation
Rankin, VancOuver,
us this poem on auto-

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Courge of automation.

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fall, es rise and wages

nd
the Boss shows his jubi-

latio
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n’t sh. * .
are his animation.

Omet;
times we may lose the

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Cheer up folks! It’s coming
Sog; ’ ad
“lism brings salvation,

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utomati i itali
lands on in capitalist

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Riis ee future it will bring
mplete emancipation.

Do
novdlas and Peace
Reid, Saskatoon,
hear p ‘I was delighted to
i 2 Temier Douglas speak
“Of the People from the steps
Parliament buildings in

Regina. However, it seems to
me that his stress on the

United Nations, as an alter-
native for the war pacts now
in operation, ignored the role
of the present U.N. whose ac-
tions brought death to Patrice

Lumumba, and gave aid and,

comfort to the colonists of
Belgium, United States,
France and Britain in the Con-
go. A real United Nations
must give freedom to all Al-

geria, Kenya, Congo and
South Africa...
Douglas should have ex-

plained that the U.N. must
seat the representatives of
People’s China in the Security
Council if they want to bring
peace and disarmament to the
world.

The Canadian people need
a federal government that
will change our foreign pol-
icy, in a way that will stop
the economic. control of our
country by the U.S. We. need
a statesman like Fidel Castro.
Canada should be independent
as Cuba is.

Up the Rebels!

R. Hamilton, Vancouver,
writes: Please accept my hum-
ble thanks for your 45th Trish
Easter Rebellion anniversary
contribution. This goes to

An Eye-Witness Account

By MAURICE RUSH

HE other night while

watching the arch murd-
erer Adolph Eichmann on TV
my mind went back three years
ago when I visited the site of
Buchenwald concentration
camp and saw with my own
eyes some of the relics of the
fiendish crimes committed by
this monster.

Situated on a hill overlook-
ing the famous German city of
Weimar, the East German
Government has turned Buch-
enwald into an historic mus-
eum as a permanent reminder
for generations to come of the
terrible years of Nazi rule.

On the slope of the hill look-
ing down towards the city
they have built an impressive
monument to the victims of

‘| Buchenwald.

There is no attempt in East
Germany to turn this concen-
tration camp into something
resembling a park as is being
done in West Germany as part
of the long range plan of the
Adenauer government to wipe
out the memory of those
horrible years.

As we entered the main
gate I could not help thinking
of the hundreds of thousands
of unfortunate victims from
many lands
through these gates and of the
60,000 men, women and chil-
dren murdered here, mostly
by shooting and hanging. :

In one corner there is a
cluster of buildings surround-
ed by high fences with a tall
prick smokestack rising from
the centre. It looked like a
factory. In fact, that’s what
it was: the mass murder fac-
tory of Buchenwald.

*

I find it hard to describe in
words what happened here!

show up the so-called “Free
Press”; Irish race horses,
fairies and visiting royalty,
and “dirty sixties Dief” visit-

this is what they call news of

Ireland.
Irishmen are held without a
charge or trial for years.

Vicious religious apartheid is
used, as race apartheid is used
in South Africa. In the last
elections 300,000 were cheat-
ed out of a vote. Canadians
should speak up in their trade
unions and. other organiza~
tions and demand release of
the Irish prisoners held at
present in Crumbin Road
prison without charge or trial.
The Tree of Liberty has
been generously watered. by.
Irish Blood. Up the Rebels!

who had gone;

iting the Premier of Treland— |

| saw one of Eichmannss
murder camps in Germany

As you go in the gate the first | murdered here . .
thing you see standing in the!| human hair, and cloth made
centre of the enclosure is aj from hair . . . torture devices
gallows on which six to eight) that take you back to the dark
people were hanged at a time.| ages.

In the basement of one of the}

buildings there are steel hooks) In a special showcase there

all around the wall on which) is a lamp shade made from .

; human skin for Ilse Koch, mis-
|tress of the commandant of
We.were shown through @ Buchenwald, and tattooed pat-

others were hanged.

|room where prisoners Were ches of human skin eut from
x a.
supposed to get medical treat- | victim’s bodies. Here is a vie- .

ment but which in fact was an iim’s. heart with a - bullet
execution chamber where vic-| through it preserved in a glass
tims. were shot in the back of jar which was kept in the liv-
the neck as they stood against | ing quarters of the Nazi murs
the wall to measure their} derer as a souvenir
height. , |

Elevators -were. placed ‘in| Here also are many cans of

such a position in the base- é :
ment. so that bodies could be. by Me Nees ior cs Slee
piled on them with a inkl 5 extermination. ' Here also
eh antount of “elon ana} 2ze many gold.fillings taken
lifted up-to. the. incinerators, | 7.

each of which were especially | cna
equipped with a platform on!

'from the mouths of the vic-'

My guide had spent seven

wheels which stood on steel) years in this hell. When I ask-*

tracks by which | the bodies | ed him why he stayed on and:
were fed into the huge ovens.) giqn+ get as far away from ©

I was told by my guide| Buchenwald as he could he re- }

that for many nights before| plied that he considered it his
the camp was liberated the} duty to stay and show visitors
lights burned brightly all) around the camp, and tell
night -long --while thousands! them of the horrors of Nazism.
were- murdered. and .cremated |

in, the ovens by Storm. Troop-| He gave me a little booklet
ee /on Buchenwald and as I left

| said: “Please don’t forget what
a | you have seen here. Tell the

: ni % ee | world what Nazis a
We next visited the mus-! gad

eum. Here before your eyes is|
unfolded the whole bloody) Buchenwald when Eichmann’s
story of Buchenwald. There) face flashed on the TV screen.
are huge urns filled with hu-|I didn’t have to be reminded.

man ashes taken from the in-| You can’t forget Buchenwald®
.-large piles of | once you have seen it, even if

cinerators ..
shoes from men and women you tried.

Here are three young Soviet entertainers whe are among
the 180 singers, musicians and dancers of the Seviet Red
Army Ensemble which will open its North American toux
in Vancouver Aug. 10-12.. Only the male members of the
ensemble are in the Soviet Army.

April 21, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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