GERMAN SAVAGERY
ADOLPH HITLER GUARD MURDER OF WOUNDED (Bloc. IV!. Copyright—United Press Abbii.) (Reed. June 2. 9 a-m.) CAIRO, May 31. Members of the Adolf Hitler Guard cold-bloodedly murdered Australian wounded on the battlefields ol Greece. Officers of the A.I.F. have recounted a number of instances of deliberate butchery of wounded Australians left lying on the field of battle. A young [Australian captain tells how his battery, alter the hardest fighting, was surrounded and nearly wiped out. He decided to feigu death and try to get out at night time. He lay down among the dead. Fanatical Nazi youths of the Hitler Guard moved across the battlefield, kicking the bodies of Australian soldiers in the Stomach. If a man was apparently dead but made a movement, he was immediately shot through the head.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20570, 2 June 1941, Page 8
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