Sect beast kept five women as sex slaves in Nazi-style concentration camp for 20 years

Five women were kept in a secret Nazi-style concentration camp for 20 years by a sadistic sect leader, it has been revealed.

One victim was worked to death and sickened detectives say the survivors are like Auschwitz inmates after decades of starvation and abuse.

Police are understood to be questioning the women about any sexual abuse forced on them by the cult leader who called himself "God".

The case has reminded many of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter captive in a secret cellar dingeon for 24 years and fathered seven children by her.

And while the brutalised victims slaved for him, the greedy sect boss forced them to sign over all their homes, property and cash to him.

As they grew older, evil Jiri Adam even plundered their old age pensions.

The self-styled commandant is now facing 12 years in jail on slavery charges.

The secret concentration camp was only discovered when one of the women escaped and tried to get medical treatment.

Shocked medics immediately called in the police.

"I would compare their state to that of concentration camp victims in World War Two," said police spokesman Oldrich Kriz in Brno, Czech Republic.

Religious nut Adam, 74, was a member of the sinister Grail Movement and described himself as his victims' God.

When one neighbour tried to persuade the women to rest furious Adam raged at him: "We don't need God here. I'm God." 

Adam first recruited the women to his mind-bending cult before turning them into his personal slaves.

Compound: Sect leader jiri adam's house

They lived in a ramshackle shed on Adam's land with no lighting, heat or water.

In frozen winters he gave them old coats to sleep in and their toilet was a bucket they slopped out each morning.

They slaved from dawn to dusk building Adam and his wife a luxury three storey home and another house where he had his cult chapel.

Any spare time they had was spent doing back-breaking work on farmer Adam's vineyard.

He gave them only bread and water to live on with a just a spoonful of honey for supper -and any disobedience was snuffed out by withdrawing food altogether.

Now doctors say they may never recover from the muscle wasting condition brought on by extreme starvation.

The secretive Grail Movement is recognised as an official religion in the Czech Republic despite its sinister reputation.

Last year it was involved in a child abuse scandal when a follower was arrested for keeping her eight-year-old son chained in an underground dungeon.