SWISS DOCTOR'S ALLEGATIONS
KILLING OF GERMAN MOUNDED London, April 27. Gravely wounded German soldiers being brought back from the Russian front were killed in a gas-filled tunnel. This method of getting rid of unwanted wounded is practised regularly, reports the “Evening Standard's” Zurich correspondent. who gives as his authority Professor Andre Basler, one of several Swiss doctors who went to the Russian front at the German invitation. Professor Basler told the correspondent: “I was on a train returning to Germany from Brest-Litovsk, when the passengers and crew were warned to put on gasmasks I asked what about the wounded, and was told that their carriages were gas-proof. “The train entered a tunnel, where it remained for half an hour. Suddenly ■ realising that this was a deliberate 1 plan to kill the wounded, I went to : th»dr carriages, and found them aii i dead.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 April 1942, Page 5
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