Several hundred Dutch and Belgian Jews deported by the Nazis to eastern Europe were massacred in Vilna by the German occupational authorities there, the British radio reported today.
The report stated that massacres of Jews are frequent in the Baltic countries and are carried out by Gestapo units.
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