BODIES OF WAR PRISONERS
MORE THAN 100,000 DISCOVERED FORMER GERMAN CAMPS IN SAXONY (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, June 23. “Workmen excavating in preparation for the rebuilding of a farm colony in the Saxony district .of Ziethain discovered more than 100,000 bodies, mostly of Russian prisoners,” says the British News Service in Germany. “The Germans during the war maintained large prisoner enclosures in the Ziethain area. “Witnesses during a preliminary investigation stated that prisoners were systematically starved to death, while epidemics spread rapidly because ot bad sanitation.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24909, 24 June 1946, Page 5
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