A report of how the Nazi military authorities discriminate against Jews in their treatment of war prisoners was received here today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee from Alexander Shapiro, a Jewish Red Armyman who was a captive of the Germans for several weeks until he succeeded in escaping.
As soon as the Germans had rounded up all the prisoners, they separated the Jews and non-Jews and ordered the former to dig a large trench, Shapiro said. When they had finished digging, all the Jews were shot and their bodies dumped into the pit. Shapiro escaped death because he posed as a Usbek, he added:
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