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were determined to protect our women. Bursts of machine-gun fire over our heads caused only a
slight hesitation and as we ran on the Czechs opened fire with machine pistols and killed or wounded
about forty of our group. We were flogged back with whips and clubs and some of the wounded were
bayoneted." - Last Days of the Reich, James Lucas, Arms & Armour Press
EVIDENCE: DOKUMENTE ZUR VERTREIBUNG DER SUDETEN-DEUTSCHEN
Consists of 590 pages of mostly eyewitness-sworn affidavits of brutalities. The index lists two pages
of references to hanging, three to burning alive, four to blinding, forty-two to murder, and forty three
to rape. For 'clubbing to death' there are twenty-five pages of evidence.
Richard Knorre, in Prague when the atrocities began described how German Prisoners-of-War,
supposedly under the protection of the Hague and Geneva Conventions, were hung by their feet to
candelabra, had fire made under their heads, so to burn to death under unspeakable pain.
"... saw two brothers, Hauke, sixteen and eighteen years, were shot by Commander Katiorek. On the
day before one of the boys had a swastika cut into his buttocks."
With other prisoners (Sebastian Herr) had to dig up buried S.S men, and re-bury them in mass graves.
He reports:
"In the night the inmates were called into the courtyard, where each night ten men, women and
children were counted off and shot. This happened to two of my brothers... once I got nothing to eat
for ten days. The children were handed their meal in a spittoon. Children who rejected this, were
beaten to death." - Hildegard Hurtinger, May, 15th, 1945
FRAU HURTINGER CONTINUED: "Pregnant women were dragged from their cells by armed
Czechs, taken to the courtyard, undressed and whipped, and then pushed into toilets and be-laboured
with clubs and fists until the fetus aborted. On most days ten women in this way were done to death."
"Some days some six or eight of us were taken to St. Botthard's Church. Here we were forced to kiss
the corpses which were already putrefying, pile them in a heap, and then lick the blood up from the
floor of the church. A Czech mob watched us all the while and then whipped us."
On May, 20th, 1945, they saw with their own eyes, "German boys and girls, and also German POWs,
hung up by the feet to candelabra and trees, had petroleum poured on them, and set on fire."
Kern, op.cit. p.259
Elsie Rotter describes how in Landeskron, June, 1945, fifty men were hung up and burned alive, and a
hundred older men were thrown into a pool, and 'Hitler boys' were forced with poles to hold them
under water until they drowned. Ernst Schorz helped to bury those who dies in Camp Palatzky. In
three weeks it was about 200. Most of them were mutilated, arms and legs hacked off, including
many corpses of women." - Kern, op.cit. p.265
Such then was the 'liberation' of Czechoslovakia; here accounted a microcosm of the murder and
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