Thirty French hostages – “Communists, Jews and sympathizers” – were executed today by the German military command near Roden in reprisal for the bombing last week of a military train in which a large number of German soldiers were killed. Eighty more hostages will be executed if the persons guilty of bombing the train are not delivered by Thursday, a Nazi official announcement said. The announcement also reported that 1,000 “Communists, Jews and sympathizers” have been deported to Nazi-held eastern Europe.
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