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MURDER OF PARACHUTISTS (.Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 8. Among the remains of thousands of victims who were cremated at the concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria. are those of 48 Allied parachute troops, including three British, who were killed by S.S. men. Reporting this, Reuter’s correspondent says one of the murderer's who was a member of “an annihilation squad,” has been captured, and Allied intelligence officers are now scouring Austria and Bavaria for others.
People liberated from the camp say that the parachute troops, who were captured in different parts of Europe, were made to carry heavy rocks up 168 steps leading to the top of a quarry, while the guards lashed <them with whips and threatened to shoot them if the rocks fell. At the top of the steps Ine men were made to throw the rocks down into the quarry and then to carry them up to the top again. This daily torture ended on September 6 last year, when the half-dead men were shot through the head as they struggled up the steps.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 7
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