WAR CRIMES
ACTION BY THE UNITED NATIONS RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION DESIRED. IN WORK OF COMMISSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 20. Russia was not represented at the Foreign Office war crimes meeting, but it is understood a communication has been sent to Moscow expressing the hope that the Soviet will arrange to participate in the commission’s work as soon as possible. MASS MURDERS COMMITTED BY GERMANS IN UKRAINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 20. The Soviet Information Bureau in Moscow announced that the Germans in one day during the occupation of Kharkov murdered more than 14,000 Russians. They drove thousands of men, women, and children into a ditch near the city’s tractor works and blew them up with mines. The Germans between February and June, 1943, used a lethal gas lorry daily in towns in occupied Russia and thus killed 7000 people in Krasnador alone. The Russians are stated to have established the names of the Germans responsible for the crimes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1943, Page 3
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