GERMAN BARBARISM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 143, 14 December 1942, Page 4

GERMAN BARBARISM

CONQUERED PEOPLES

LONDON, December 12,

Reuters correspondent on the German frontier says that firing squads of Kurt Daluege, Nazi "Protector" of Boheme and Moravia, established a record shooting 49 Czechs in a single day. 'It is known that 172 .Czechs were killed in November.

The Germans followed up a renewed purge by mobilising 70,000 v Czechs aged 20 to 24 for forced labour in Germany. The latest revelations of v German barbarism related in "Pravda" are about the sufferings of the inhabitants of Minsk. The Germans established a ghetto, and any Jew attempting to escape was immediately shot. Guards frequently break into the houses and indulge in orgies of sadism, hurling women and children from windows. The finest squares and gardens in Minsk are covered with gallows. For every German in Minsk who is murdered several hundred Jews are slain.

The Germans ordered the sterilisation' of all men and boys, but doctors refused to operate. The people subsequently learnt that a professor and several women- doctors died suddenly.

The Germans have turned a onceflourishing town into a v§st concentration camp. The inhabitants are compelled to work 16 to 18 hours a day for a ration of 200 grammes of bread. Elderly persons incapable of work go without. Children under 18 receive, theoretically, 100 grammes. Many hundreds of children rendered homeless by German air raids have not found their parents. The Germans leave them to their own resources and many have died of starvation and disease* Others wander the streets seeking food. The Germans from time to time round up these waifs in lorries and take them to the outskirts of' the city, where freshly-dug pits tell their own story of the tragedy. It is reported from Sofia that the Germans shot more than 300 Greeks at Lamia for sheltering the guerrillas who blew up the railway bridge at Gorgopotomas. .