Reports from inside Poland disclosed today that regular German army troops, using poison gas and gunfire, had massacred 10,000 Jews in the Brest-Litovsk region last fall, and that the slaughter there is continuing.
Troops from Wehrmacht units assigned to exterminate the Jewish population gassed large numbers of Jews in scaled barns and shot to death groups of 60 persons in woodlands near Brest-Litovak. Most of the killing was done in October and November. Massacres were relatively few in December and January, but this month they have been increasing.
One eyewitness account tells of a German lieutenant who, after directing one of these operations, had a nervous shock and was committed to a madhouse.
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