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Nazis Exhuming Bodies of 30,000 Yugoslav Jews to Hide Traces of Massacres

July 19, 1944
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The Nazis are systematically exhuming the remains of 70,000 Yugoslavs and 30,000 Jews executed since 1941, according to the Swiss newspaper Gazette de Lausanne, as reported by the OWI today. The Nazis are “erasing all marks” of mass murders, the Swiss paper said.

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