MASS MURDERS
GERMAN GENERALS CHARGED TERRORISM AT OREL (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, December 27. Lieutenant-general Hammann, one of the Germans on trial before the Soviet Military Tribunal at Briansk, was charged with the mass murder of Soviet citizens. He pleaded that he acted on orders from Colonel-general Schmidt, commander of the Second German Panzer Army. Accused denied that he violated international law. Lieutenant-general Bernhardt, another accused, admjtted that he used civilians for demining jobs and sent others to Germany. The prosecution alleged that in 194243, when Hammann was commander at Orel, there were numerous executions of Soviet workers “ for unsatisfactory work.” One group of workers was killed by mustard gas to test its effect. The prosecution also alleged that Bernhardt organised punitive raids, in which villages were burnt and peaceable civilians killed.
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Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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132MASS MURDERS Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 5
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