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The report describes atrocities beyond murder:
The fascist murderers did not stop after shooting. On top of committing murder they mutilated the victims.
So for example, per testimony of eyewitnesses -- which the Germans left alive to bury the victims --it was observed that heads were bashed with shovels so that brains fell out. The above incident took place near the village of Manchaki, Rasna district, June 29, 1944.
The same date, near the village of Manchaki were martyred three farmers from the colony Trasuga. The two victims had their heads crushed, indicating that the use of a blunt weapon. The reason for killing: the peasants were alleged to having a relationship with partisans.
A typical example of the viscious attitude of the Germans to Soviet citizens who evaded forced conscription into German slavery, or those [who were caught] and then escaped from Germany and returned to their homeland. A representative case: Ivan Filipovic Andrejchuk of the village of Barschevo. Having been deported to Germany to work, he escaped and returned to his home. After some time the German gendarmerie found him in his hut near the village Barschevo, where he was hiding to evade punishment. The atrocity occurred when he was found: he was given such a severe beating that his anguished cries were heard at a distance of 300 meters. Not regaining consciousness the wretched fugitive died in agony.
In the town Kerhovichi, the German commisar had big dogs especially to attack civilians. Many case were proven in which innocent people were subjected to viscious attack. The dogs attacked the man, threw him to the ground, tearing clothes and body. There was a case with a fatal outcome. The victims of these practices was Vera Korzhenko, midwife Yaroshuk, Peter K., a resident of the village...
Besides these cases of mass and individual executions of Soviet citizens, the German fascist invaders [reacted to being] jeered by the local population. The main measure to subdue and subordinate the population [used by the Germans] was a rubber whip. For the slightest disobedience people received 10-15 lashes, which often left them blinded.
There were cases in which a prisoner, with hands shackled, was tied on a rope fastened to a cart, and he had to run 15-20 km behind the traveling cart.
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Notes: Manchaki: probably a small village, Манчаки (Russian) Manczaki (Polish), about 11km (7mi) northeast of Wysokie. Trasuga: Трасуга, perhaps Polish Trasucze, a tiny hamlet about 1.5km northwest of Manchaki. Barschevo: Барщево or Barszczewo, a village about 7km east of Wysokie. Kerhovichi (Керховичи); unknown. Possibly the Polish village of Klukowice, 7.5 km (5mi) northwest of Wysokie. None of these appear to have been populated by Jewish people.
This material is from Page 2 of 5, Page 3 of 5, and Page 4 of 5 of the original, in handwritten Russian. |