The mass-execution of 25,000 Jews in Odessa by Rumanian troops was reported today in a British radio broadcast.
The report said that after 220 Rumanian soldiers were killed by a Soviet time bomb, 25,000 Jews in Odessa, including women and children, were herded into military barracks and mowed down by squads of Rumanian machine-gunners. The barracks were then set on fire. The British radio termed the massacre as “one of the biggest mass executions in history.”
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