Nazis' Yugoslav Atrocities
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grave-diggers' evidence I
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.^ecpiYed Friday, 12.15 p.m. BELGRADE, June 27. Two grave-diggers testified at the' Mikhailovitch trial that during two and a half years of German occupation they wpre eyewitnesses to mass executions and burials of nearly 20,0D0 Yugoslav citizens. One said he saw from 6000 to 7000 shot at a camp near Belgrade. The other said. he handled between 7000 and 8000 corpses, not counting an estimated 12,000 victims of gas chambers. The grave-diggers were giving evidenee in the case against Yovonovich, whq it is alleged was responsible for mass shootings ip interment camps near Belgrade.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 June 1946, Page 5
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