ATROCITIES AT KIEV
MASS MURDER OF POPULATION LONDON. February 29. The Germans destroyed 1.742 communal dwellings and 3,600 private houses, rendering more than 200,000 homeless during their occupation of Kiev, according to the report of the Soviet Commission investigating enemy atrocities. The Teport, which was broadcast over the Moscow radio, says that before evacuating Kiev the Germans completely wrecked the centre of the city, including the Government buildings. They also destroyed all cultural institutions, including the State University, and carried away more than 4,000,000 books from the city’s libraries. Other loot included plant from factories, which were afterwards wrecked. Thousands of Kiev’s citizens were deported to Germany for forced labour. The city was left without food, water, light, or heat. _ , The report accuses the Germans _of mass murder of the population, saying that the commission has established that more than 195,000 citizens were tortured, to death, shot, or poisoned in gas vans. The killings, began on the first, day of the oce'upation. General von Mannstem was among those responsible.
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Evening Star, Issue 25113, 1 March 1944, Page 5
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169ATROCITIES AT KIEV Evening Star, Issue 25113, 1 March 1944, Page 5
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