Massacre of Kiev Jews Sufficient Reason for Bombing of Berlin, Says Bbc Broadcaster

The massacre of 50,000 Jews in Kiev, detailed reports of which were made public today, was cited by a broadcaster on the BBC today as an answer to Dr. Joseph Goebbles charge that the bombing of Berlin by the RAF was “not war.” “If Goebbels claims that the attack against Berlin is not war, what then was the assault on the Warsaw Ghetto and the massacre of Jews at Kiev,” the speaker said.

British and American correspondents who visited Babi Yar, a ravine outside Kiev, report evidences of large-scale massacres. Three Soviet soldiers who were among several hundred Russians compelled to disinter the remains of the victims, most of whom were massacred in Sept. 1941, in order that they might be incinerated to hide the German atrocities, told the correspondents of what transpired before the Germans evacuated the city. They described the gigantic bonfires in which the bodies of the Jews were consumed and the careful efforts to fill in the ravine with fresh earth.

The chairman of the Kiev Atrocity Commission disclosed that the massacres began on Sept. 28,1941 and continued for several days. Russian war prisoners were forced to bury the bodies. Another report, quoting a Russian newspaper, says that Red Army troops who entered Gomel on Thursday found evidences of similar massacres of the Jewish population of the White Russian center.