GERMAN MASSACRE OF CHILDREN
128 BODIES DISCOVERED SOLE SURVIVOR TELLS A GRIM STORY. Recd. 11.30 p.m. London, Feb. 11. The bodies of 128 children, aged from 2J to 16, who had not only been shot but their skulls and bones broken, were discovered by Russian troops who reoccupied the village of Mikhailovka, near Dnepropetrovsk, reports the Moscow Radio.
A Russian boy, Mitya Kozub, sole survivor of a local children’s home, declared that he witnessed the Germans shooting his companions. The boy took Russian soldiers to the scene o± execution, which is a gully beyond the village. Excavations were started, and, in the cold light of a January day, it was discovered that the whole gully was filled with children’s bodies. A protocol, drawn up on the spot and signed by Mitya Kozub and leading guards officers, detailed the massacre: “Sick and little children were driven off in carts. The rest were taken on foot. Hitlerites snatched their victims and threw them into a ditch and shot them with tommy-guns. We found the bodies piled up haphazardly.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 36, 12 February 1944, Page 5
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