Rene Chauvin, “Nazi Savages in France,” “Lest We Forget” series, Part II, Reader’s Digest, Vol. 45, No. 272, (December 1944), pp. 89-90.
In this article, a condensed version of an article published in the New York World-Telegram, 3 October 1944, French Army Major Rene Chauvin describes his experiences as a prisoner of war and the torture that he witnessed the Nazis commit. He also describes his observations of Fort de Romainville, a Nazi concentration camp in France, after its liberation. He writes about the state of the dead bodies found in a pile inside the camp as well as a dungeon in which fifty people had been confined and then murdered. He ends his article urging Americans to believe his account of the concentration camps and the Nazis’ horrific atrocities. As he did with the first article in this series, Goetz crossed out the “We” in the title and changed the original title from “Lest We Forget” to “Lest I Forget.” For other articles in the “Lest We Forget” series, see Inserts 1 and 33a.