- Headline
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Massacre Of 95,567 Charged Against Germans By Russia
- Publication Date
- Thursday, January 8, 1942
- Historical Event
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Germans Kill Thousands of Jews in Mass Shooting Outside Kiev
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- Moscow, January 7—(AP)—German troops were formally charged by Soviet Russia today with massacring 95,567 persons in 13 cities and countless hundreds elsewhere in an occupation marked by "unheard of pillages, general devastation, abominable violence."
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov said in a detailed note handed yesterday to all envoys accredited to Moscow that "German authorities legalized marauding in their army and encouraged these pillages and violence."
The text of the note was made public today by Tass.
Slaying of civilians was said to have been accomplished by explosives, suffocation, knifing or hanging as well as shooting.
These specific figures were presented on the number slain in the following towns:
Kiev .................52,000
Dnieperopetrovsk ....10,500
Kaments Podolsk .... 8,500
Odessa .............. 8,000
Kerch ............... 7,000
Lwow (Poland) ...... 6,000
Mariupol ............. 3,000
Rostov ............... 308
Ershovo ............. 100
Emelchino Zhitomir
Gerion ............... 68
Kryakov ............ 40
Kolodeznaya ......... 32
Kharkov ............. 19
Thousands of civilians were forced into hazardous war labor in violation, of international conventions, food and clothing were stripped from the defenseless and hundreds of homes were burned, Molotov asserted, all testifying to "the utter moral degradation and corruption of Hitler's army."
In three cases, it was charged, the Germans rounded up civilians and forced them into fields of potential Red Army fire to 'shield maneuvers of the invaders.
The heaviest loss of civilian lives was listed at Kiev, the Ukrainian capital which fell in late September, where 52,000 persons were said to have been killed and tortured to death."
Molotov said refugees from Kiev described thus a mass execution of Jewish men, women, and children at a Jewish cemetery:
"All of them were stripped naked and beaten up. The first group of people selected for shooting was forced to lie on the bottom of a dtich, faces down, and were shot with automatic rifles. Then the Germans threw a little earth, over them. The next group of people awaiting execution was put on top of their bodies on a bonfire in the and so on."
Isolated atrocities were declared to have included the shooting of seven peasant families and burning of their bodies on a bon fire in the Velikieluki district near Kalinin, 95 miles northwest of Moscow, from which the Germans were driven early in the current Russian counteroffensive.
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London, January 7 — (AP) — A German broadcast heard here today said Russian charges of German atrocities were intended to mask mass murders the Germans said were committed by the Russians themselves among the Soviet population of Feodosiya in the Crimea because of civilian cooperation with the Germans. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amy P.
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