GRIM TERRORISM
NAZI RULE IN KHARKOV DEVASTATION & FAMINE. ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE PUNISHED BY DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) MOSCOW, June 17. Russians who have escaped from the city have given a grim picture of the German rule in Kharkov, reports the Tass Agency. Whole ■ blocks of houses are in ruins. The best buildings have been converted into barracks and brothels. The water supply does not function and electricity is prohibited for lighting. The bodies of persons who have died of starvation are removed daily to the outskirts of the city. Ragged and emaciated citizens rummage the garbage dumps for food. Attempts to escape from the city are punished by death. Executions of citizens, including women, children and old men, are carried out almost
daily. When the Germans hanged over fifty persons at one time, in the Dzerzhinsky Square, they broadcast light music and military marches. The bodies of a woman and her baby were left hanging for several days, with a poster reading: “Hanged for Being a Guerilla,” pinned to the woman’s body.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1942, Page 3
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