PRISONERS BUTCHERED
MARCH OF DEATH FROM BUCHENWALD GAMP
LONDON, April 29,
S.S. men who marched thousands of the inmates from Buchenwald before the Americans reached the camp began shooting them as soon as the march began, says Reuter's correspondent with the Third Army. They continued for 125 miles to within a few miles of the Czecho-Slovak border.
Only 6,000 survived of 11,000 from Buchenwald and from another camp at Flossenberg, east of Weiden. Two thousand of one column of 4,000 lived through a nightmare of savagery during which men were shot for trying to tear up grass to eat. When liberating American tanks were within sight the S.S. men turned automatic weapons against the stumbling men to create a road block against the tanks, which opened fire, billing 100 S».S. troops as they fled.
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Evening Star, Issue 25472, 1 May 1945, Page 5
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