TORTURE OF RUSSIANS
ADMITTED BY ACCUSED GERMAN AT TRIAL AT KHARKOV “COMMON PRACTICE IN GERMAN ARMY” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 16. The first trial of persons accused of committing atrocities in Kharkov has begun before a military tribunal, reports the Moscow radio. The accused, who pleaded guilty, are three men of the German Army and a Russian who was a chauffeur in the German special command in Kharkov. The hall was crowded with hundreds of Russians, many of whom bore traces of German torture. An investigation established the responsibility of the German High Command and Government for the deaths by suffocation, shooting, burning, and torture, of 30,000 citizens of Kharkov and the region. One of the accused, Captain Wilhelm Langheld, of the German military counter-espionage, admitted that he had systematically tortured Russian prisoners to extract military secrets. He said it was a common practice in the German Army.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1943, Page 4
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