“REPRISAL” MURDERS
WHOLE FAMILIES SHOT IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. INCLUDING MANY WOMEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 10. Reprisal shootings for Heydrich’s death continue unabated in Bohemia and Moravia, says the diplomatic correspondent of “The Times.” The Germans themselves have admitted that more than 1500 have been shot since May 27. The Czechs declare that whole families have been shot. The latest information received in London shows that 56 families, totalling 143 people were actually murdered. Of 111 women whose execution the Germans announced. 39 were shot with their husbands. The youngest girl was 18, and the oldest woman 75.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1942, Page 4
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