Scores of Jewish doctors were recently murdered by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Minsk when they refused to castrate the few remaining Jews in the city as ordered by Gen. Wilhelm Von Kube, Nazi governor of Minak, it is reported today in Pravda. The doctors, including women, were first tortured and humiliated before being put to death, it is stated.
Reporting further details of the devastation visited upon the once flourishing city by the Germans, Pravda writes that “the town has been turned into a dungeon for White Russians and Jews. Gallows decorate the main streets and squares and the campus of the university. Thousands of Jews have been murdered by the Nazi gangsters.”
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