The execution of 7,000 Russian Jews whose bodies were used for road-fill was described in the House of Commons today by Commander R.M. Prior, a veteran of the Dieppe raid, who secured the information from a German soldier.
Commander Prior was captured during the Dieppe raid by the Germans and escaped only recently. During his imprisonment he met an Alsatian soldier who had been conscripted into the German army and sent to Russia. The soldier told Commander Prior that he had witnessed the execution of the 7,000 Jews, who were lined up before ditches into which their bodies were subsequently thrown and covered with dirt. Later German engineers used the filled-in ditches as part of a road they were constructing.
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