BELGRADE RUINS
Thousands Of Corpses Still In Streets
LONDON, April 27.
A special correspondent on the German frontier says eye-witnesses from Yugoslavia say that the air raids on Belgrade killed 20,000 people. Residents of Belgrade now live like animals. They have no electricity and no water supply, and thousands of rotting corpses are still strewn in the streets, representing a threat to the population who draw water from the Danube. The Germans entered on April 13, and filled tracks with goods pillaged from the shops. Then they opened the jails and photographed the convicts looting in order to show that they did not do it. The Germans moved on and left only a small garrison, which conscripted citizens between the ages of 16 and 60 to clear the debris and collect the wounded and the dead.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 181, 29 April 1941, Page 7
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