Otto Kielhorn, a Nazi storm trooper during World War II, described in court here today, during the trial of five former SS officers charged with murdering 5. 200 Jews in Pinsk, Poland, how the Nazis forced Jewish children to watch their parents being massacred.
Testifying for the prosecution, Kielhorn said the Pinsk Jews had been rounded up, robbed of their valuables, and forced to strip down to their underwear. While the children watched, he said, the parents were killed. Then, he said, the “children were driven into the line of fire of light machineguns, ” and all were murdered.
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