LONG HUNT ENDS
20 GERMANS ARRESTED MURDER OF R.A.F. MEN BRUTALITY TO VICTIMS (10 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. After a relentless search since the end of the war in the Harz mountains, British war crimes investigators rounded up 20 German civilians who are alleged to have murdered five members of the R.A.F. Ten members of the R.A.F. were shot down near Strasbourg, en route to bomb Leipzig in March, 1945. Seven were immediately captured by the Wehrmacht and kept moving for three days without sleep until they reached Pforzheim, where they were marched from one end of the town to the other while civilians stoned them. Germans, in civilian clothes, later dragged the airmen half naked to -a barn through lines of raging civilians. A Luftwaffe officer tried to stop the mob. Two R.A.F. members escaped during a scuffle. The remainder, after being cruelly beaten on the heads, were dragged to a cemetery and shot. One of the three who originally escaped was captured and shot, and - his body was thrown into a quarry.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 2
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