The President of the Munich police has informed the press that the first concentration camp holding 5,000 political prisoners is to be organised within the next few days near the town of Dachau in Bavaria.
Here, he said, Communists, ╥Marxists,╙ and Reichsbanner leaders who endangered the security of the State would be kept in custody. It was impossible to find room for them all in the State prisons, nor was it possible to release them. Experience had shown, he said, that the moment they were released they always started their agitation again. If the safety and order of the State were to be guaranteed such measures were inevitable, and they would be carried out without any petty considerations.
This is the first clear statement hitherto made regarding concentration camps. The extent of the terror may be measured from the size of this Bavarian camp ╤ which, one may gather, will be only one of many.
The Munich police president╒s statement leaves no more doubt whatever that the Socialists and Republicans will be given exactly the same sort of ╥civic education╙ as the Communists. It is widely held that the drive against the Socialists will reach its height after the adjournment of the Reichstag next week.
