US Representative Emanuel Cellar and Nazi Prisoner Abuses 1945 | Congress Examined Internation Red Cross and their Dereliction of Duty 1945
1945, PM Tabloid, POWs

POW Abuse: What Did the Red Cross Know?
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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U.S. Representative Emanuel Cellar (1888 – 1981) and a number of senators were all in agreement that the International Red Cross had failed in their task to police Nazi P.O.W. camps for prisoner abuse:


“In accordance with the conditions of the Geneva Convention, the Red Cross has the right to visit prisoner-of-war camps… These killings, starvations, and abuses did not happen in one day. They were prolonged operations. Didn’t the Red Cross know about them?”