The charge that most of the 70,000 Jews massacred in Odessa during the Axis occupation “were killed by Rumanians” was made over the Moscow radio today in a report from liberated Odessa.
The report said that a special commission set up by Boris Davidenko, the mayor of Odessa who re-entered the city with the Russian Army, is now compiling material on the German-Rumanian atrocities against the local population. It estimated that 80,000 civilians were executed by the enemy forces during their occupation of Odessa, and emphasized that 70,000 of them were Jews of all ages, including children.
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