VILE MASSACRE CHARGED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 202, 24 May 1944, Page 7

VILE MASSACRE CHARGED

Allied Flyers’ Fate Inside Prison GERMANS’ MOTIVE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 22. Statements made in Stockholm by British prisoners of war who have escaped from the German prison camp Stalagluft 3 reveal that tlie massaere of 47 Allied prisoners by German guards did not occur in a clash between the prisoners and guards, but was varritd out by a group of guards who lost t en heads and shot the prisoners in I u racks, courtyards, and wol ; k ®' lol ’ s ’ f the Stockholm correspondent of tne “Dally Express.” Neither inquiry nor trial of any sort preceded the mass 111 The 1 correspondent says that the escape s emphatically refute the German allegation that the reto be one of the most shocking stories of lasted for several days. Most of the prisoners were shot on al '9 k 22 but the executions continued till sdmotings apparently result!■<! from a breakdown m German .disc 11 « morale The escapees said the guaids at Stalagluft 3 for mouths past had behaved like lunatics. They had been exasperated by frequent attempts to escape and decided, as a deterrent, to shoot all suspected of planning escape. The “Daily Express,” in an editorial, savs that the preliminary reports of the massacre will strike a ehill of cold bate ‘‘'••Here“ultimate vilenes of Nazidom made plain as the nation is poised to attack and destroy it, the newspaper declares.