SCENE OF DESOLATION
SCORCHED EARTH POLICY RAZING OF HAMLETS (Reed; Aug. 12, 9 a.m. ZURICH, Aug. 11. The National Zeitung’s Berlin correspondent says a German army reporter, describing M. Stalin’s “scorched earth” methods, stated: “It is impossible to conceive the extent of the destruction and desolation in the gigantic battlefield. Not a single hamlet is spared. Hundreds of thousands of homes have been razed. The population fled before the fury of war. The only living things seen are animals which have escaped from the refugees and returned to the sites of their former homes.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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94SCENE OF DESOLATION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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