GERMAN ACCUSATIONS
MURDERS IN POLAND FATE OF MINORITY (Reed Feb. 12, 2.30 p.m.) BERLIN, Feb. II A new edition of the German Foreign Office publication, “Polish atrocities against Germans in Poland alleges that Poles murdered 58,000 of the German minority during September. The Germans first officially claimed (that 5487 had been murdered, but amended the figure later to 12,000. The new edition alleges that even the new figure of 58,000 is not final because “hundreds of mass graves which have been discovered canno. hp opened until the spring on account of the weather.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 13 February 1940, Page 11
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