GERMAN CRUELTY IN POLAND
MEN SHOT AFTER DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVES
(Received December 5, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 4.
The Paris correspondent of The Times states that the Polish information bureau says that 300 of the 350 hostages at Gydnia were shot in batches after digging their own graves, while those not yet murdered were compelled to look on. The victims included the port director, judges, clergymen, a bank director and a professor. Mass executions are reported from Posnania and Pomerania. The Gestapo arrested a number of students because a window was broken at Oburzo, and ordered the parents to whip them before church. The parents refused and were clubbed.
The statement alleges that the tongue of a Polish member of Parliament was tom out. x ..
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Southland Times, Issue 23992, 6 December 1939, Page 5
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