FROM A NAZI’S DIARY

Evening Star, Issue 24137, 6 March 1942, Page 4

FROM A NAZI’S DIARY

The following extract from the diary of Private Emil Holtz, member of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, captured in Russia, appeared in ‘ Soviet War News,’ issued by the Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London:— July 21.—We are in Alogilcv and have taken up quarters in the Jewish district. When you see those stooping figures you are seized with the, desire to pull the trigger and shoot them. But are must wait—-we shall get them yet. July 25.—Passing through Sloaain together with Walter. I took part in a round-up of shops and houses. I took away several necessary items iu the car. July 28.—At dawn we pressed through Barabovice. The town is in ruins. Bait everything is not yet finished. On the way from Alir to Stolpce we talked to the people, with our machine guns, leaving behind moaning bodies, blood, and many dead. Wo did not feel any sympathy. In every village and every town we saw people whom we would have liked to shoot. I hope that an S.S. company will soon come and do what we did not have time to complete. August s.—At 10 o’clock we arrived in the hamlet of Lotdy, and at once went out in search of booty. We broke down doors with truncheons and grenades. We killed all the people in the houses, sometimes with revolvers, sometimes a'ith bayonets or rifles, or simply by felling them to the ground. I prefer to use a pistol.