- Headline
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Nazis Massacred 95,567 Civilians, Russia Claims
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, January 7, 1942
- Historical Event
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Germans Kill Thousands of Jews in Mass Shooting Outside Kiev
This database includes 222 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 20
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- MOSCOW, Jan. 7.—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.
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, Germans rounded up civilians and forced them into fields of potential red army fire to shield maneuvers of the invaders.
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 ditch, 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 them in a second row and shot and so on." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amy P.
- Location of Research
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