AD B 18 Interneringskampen Germans now live in former Nazi murder camp in Holland Interned German families from war-rava...

AD B 18 Interneringskampen Germans now live in former Nazi murder camp in Holland Interned German families from war-ravaged areas are now living in the former Nazi torture camp at Vught, two miles south of Hertogenbosch, Holland, were 13,600 prisoners were executed or deed of torture and ill-treatment. The concentration camp at Vught, one of the largest in the world, hold 35,000 prisoners at a time. It contained a 'black hole', 3,60 meters by 2,10 meters and 2,40 meters high, into which 67 women were forced one night. Twelve were dead in the morning, seven died later and several went insane. Men and women were subjected to the most atrocious forms of cruelty and beaten to death, often trouwgh the breaking of their spines. More than 3,000 prisoners were shot between June and September 1944. In one day, 32 Belgian partisans and two Dutch patriots were hanged. Special ovens were built for cremations and ashes or bodies were thrown into lime pits on the grounds. Germans now living in the camp soo these reminders of Nazi torture methods every day. This photo shows: An Allied guard stands in front of the moat built between two rows of electrified barbed wire fences set up by the Germans around the camp at Vught. Surmounting the outer fence are observation towers mounted with searchlights, where guards with machine guns were ready to spray bullets on prisoners attempting to escape.