NAZI BESTIALITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1944, Page 7

NAZI BESTIALITY

NEW LIDICE IN GREECE

Re£. 11i 30 am- RUGBY, October 18. The horrors of another Lidice—this * ® "*, Greecc—were revealed by the Archbishop of Greece, Dr. Damascinos, m a talk to an Athens correspondent. Eighty Germans had been killed in the village of Karlavrita, he said, and the Germans decided to destroy the whole population. They gathered every man, woman, ??i* cllll<*. (the population was about 1000) m the square in the centre of the village. There they told all males ov?r the age of 14 to kneel down. All the women and children were removed to a school building on the other side of the square from'where they could see/ all that went on. The men and boys were then machinegunned where they knelt and the school buildings were set on fire. For about 10 minutes babies could be seen falling from the windows as their mothers threw them out in a desperate effort to spare them from a gruesome fate. RELENTED TOO LATE. Eventually, said the Archbishop, a German officer, who could not stand the horrible scene, rushed up and broke open the doors. It was too late. Very few of the women escaped. • He added that the destruction carried out by the Germans in the south and the Bulgarians in the north has "almost killed Greece." I "If the Bulgarians are not punished for their crimes." he said, "I will declare publicly that there is no justice on this earth." In all, the Germans had destroyed more than 2000 townships, and today more than 3000 families in Athens I were being cared for under his authorIny because the father or breadwinner had been executed. 100 INNOCENTS SHOT. "Fifteen days ago," he said, "at one place, about 100 women and children were shot by the Germans and their homes burnt down because one German had been wounded. The Germans also started the custom of surrounding churches during a service and killing all the male members of congregations ove,r 14." The atrocities committed by Bulgarians in Macedonia and Thrace were even worse. In those territories more than 50,000 Greeks had been massacred. An attempt was made to reduce the Greek population to such an extent that the Bulgarians would no longer be in a minority.—B.O.W.