GERMANS EXECUTE GERMANS
INSTANCES IN FRANCE
A French woman visiting the cemetery of the Guillotiere, at Lyons, one day in March, did not hear the bell announcing closing time. Seeking her way out, she found herself near the crematorium. Suddenly she heard sounds of wheels, and as she hid she saw a German military wagon draw up. German soldiers got out. In their midst were four other Germans, very lightly clad. They had hardly put foot to ground when there was a burst of machine-gun fire. The bodies were hastily thrown into the crematorium to be burned. Frenchmen often are witnesses of such scenes, says “La Marseillaise,” the French weekly published in London, which adds that mutiny among German troops is growing frequent. At Toulouse, there is a van which is well known in that town as being used for carrying the bodies of executed Germans to the cemetery. The mutinies mostly occur when notice is received that men are to leave for the Russian front. At Landernau, in Brittany, soldiers who mutinied, for this reason were joined by some of their, officers. They were all executed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 4
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187GERMANS EXECUTE GERMANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 4
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