BRUTAL HUNS
INHUMAN ATROCITIES
(Rec. 2.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, February 19
The "Herald Tribune's" Moscow corrpspondent, after visiting reoccupied districts, tells d heart-rending story of inhuman German atrocities against civilians. He describes how the Nazis in one Russian village shot, hanged, or forced to freeze to death 4949 men, women, and children.
The correspondent found documentary proof that the Nazis in fifty-nine inhabited places destroyed 2886 houses, also 1700 farm buildings. In the village of Gorodishe the Germans shot all of the 276 patients in an insane asylum, and in another town they suffocated the patients in a hospital.
n some villages bodies were found still hanging on the gallows, including those of numerous women.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 6
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