Over 20,000 Jews were shot in Lwow within a few days after the Germans entered the town, a witness named Baumvald told a Soviet War Crimes court in Kiev, the Moscow radio reports. The court is trying Lieut. Gen. Burkhardt, commandant of Kiev during the German occupation and 14 other Germans.
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