During World War I, many U. S. citizens firmly believed that the Germans built factories to make glycerin and lubricating oil from corpses (a rumor invented and afterwards confessedby the British Government). Last week rumors circulated in the U. S. about the State slaughter of "80,000 to 100,000 German cripples and lunatics." Some reports:
> In Württemberg a number of insane Germans were taken from an asylum, driven to the outskirts of the city in busses, herded into wooden huts, killed.
> Recently a prominent Protestant bishop, head of a huge colony for the insane and crippled, was ordered to deliver 1,100...
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