Scars

Ugly scars left on the body of Paris by Nazi terror came to light last week.

P: In the Ivry suburb, nameless graves held the remains of an estimated 75,000 persons shot during the occupation.

P: In the Surete Generale on the Rue des Saussaies, Gestapomen had tortured prisoners with near-freezing baths, electric currents, beatings. Scratched on the walls of cells: "Long live eternal France! . . . Never confess ! . . . My God, I have confidence in Thee!"

P: At the Air Ministry's rifle range on the boulevard Victor, the Germans had built an asbestos shed in which they threw flames at prisoners, or burned them alive with scorching air. The asbestos walls bore the imprints of the palms of men, women and children who had tried to escape. Near the sheds were poles to which prisoners had been bound by the neck, then shot with flesh-gouging dumdum bullets.

P: In the old Jewish quarter around the rue Ste.-Croix de la Bretonnerie, the Germans had set up a ghetto. Only 10,000 of 100,000 Jews who used to live there still remained. They straggled out last week to meet American visitors. Broken by hunger, torture, humiliation, the yellow star of David newly torn from their sleeves, they were Paris' most sadly joyous beings.

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