The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-07

excesses of isolated and undisci- plined military units or individual German officers and soldiers.
 Abundant documentary material at the disposal of the Soviet gov ernment testified to the fact that plunder and ruination of the popu- lation accompanied by bestial out rages and massacres are widespread in all districts which fell under the heel of the German Nazis, '' Molotov said. "Irrefbutable facts prove that the regime of plunder and sanguinary terrorism against the non-combatant population Of occupied villages and towns repre- sents a definite system devised be- forehand and encouraged by the German government and the Ger man government and the German command, who consciously let loose in their army among officers and soldiers the basest bestial instincts" 1"
 Wrecked Devastation
 The note said that over the en- tire front, from Finland to the Black Sea, the German armeis "and their allies" had wrecked destruc- tio hand devastation.
 It told of entire towns utterly wiped out, such as Istra, Kiln and Rogachev on the Moscow front and many others; it detailed the num- Der of homes burned in villages, "in Baklanovo 66 out of 69.' It told hohw the Germans shot a 70 year old man because he pleaded: Don't burn my house."
 It gave names of German units and officers in describing as cold blodded mass destruction.
 The names of peasants who had been robbed of everything were given.
 It cited specific orders-includinug one by Col. Nikolaescu of the 14th Rumanian division.
 It gave specific details and named many German units involved, units which some day may await the pleasure of a victorious Red army.
 Then the note repeatde the Rus sian charge that the Germans, in counting Up Hitler's grand total of "prisoners" had included millions of civilians.
 Wanton Destruction
 The note went on to tell of wanton destruction of everything which told of Russian national cul- ture, because the Germants wanted to Germanize everything they took
 "The thickheaded Fascists will yet realize that they will never suc- ceed in GermanlZing and subjating these peoples" Molotov taunted "these men who pose as represen- tatives of an allegedly superior race.
 Next the note detailed horrible the Germans, and their display o1 individual and mass executions by bodies of their victims.
 Tn the village of Volovo, in the Kursk region, where the German. stayed four hours, German of. ficer hit the head of the two veal old son of peasant Boikova agains a wall and killed him, because ht was crying" the note said
 "The base outraging of women ane 6ll 1O tIhSo pldCC SsCl NllGL III " cupied districts" the note continued
 Horrible Sceues
 It went on to relate how German soldiers, officers and men, drunl and sober, had raped women, girls girl children in cities in villages how children had been raped be fore then eyes of their relatives, hoy ~yirIc bod boay, Sro uual tbro,,ul, tL, streets for mas srape, how an olt priest who, cross held before hi breast, tried to save one group o girl had been bayonetted to deatl after his beard had been burned How at Tikhvin on the Leningra front 15-year old girl named Ko lodetskaya was taken to hospita wounded by shell fragment, an was raped by soldiers there unt she died.
 But the Hitlerites do not con fine themselves to murders of in dividual Soviet citizens" the not went on.
 Then it told of massacres, startin with those in villages where only few old men and boys were left an working up to the cities-Kiev, mo1 than 52,000 victims; Lvov 500 Odessa more than 5000, Kamene' Podolsk more than $500. Dnieprc petrovsk more than l0,500; Ma riupol more than 5000. Kerch 2 GOO. Kerch has just been recap tured.
 For 10 days, the note said tt Germans murdered on mass sea At Rostsv on Don, whose recaptui narked the start of the preser German retreat.
 Finally the note related how tf Syermans had used women, childre and old men as shields for the shock troops" against Russia fra.