Nazis Branding Word ”jude” on Bodies of Jewish Soldiers Captured on Russian Front

Nazi troops are branding the word ”Jew” on the bodies of captured Russian-Jewish soldiers, it is reported in the Soviet press today by Captain Eliezer Eizenstein, commander of a company on the Stalingrad front.

Eizenstein tells of the death of a Jewish soldier, David Klugman, who was taken prisoner by the Nazis together with a small group of other Russians who were sent on a reconnaisance assignment inside the enemy lines. After the Germans had been repulsed, the Russian units entering the recaptured village found the mutilated bodies of the members of the reconnaisance group laid out on the square of the village with their hands and feet nailed to the ground. The word ”Judo” had been branded on Klugman’s chest.

The Russian press today praises Jr. Lieut. Greenzweig, commander of a company of mine throwers, for his dogged defense of a position on the Stalingrad front. When Soviet infantry finally came to the aid of Greenzweig and his detachment after they had been subjected to merciless fire for three days and three nights continuously, the infantrymen found that the mine-throwers, not content with holding their positions, had advanced and repelled the Nazi troops.