Evening star., 1946-01-31
U. 5. Prisoners Used
For Target Practice,
Nuremberg Court Told
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Jan. 31.-A Ger
man officer used group of un
armed American prisoners of wa
for target practice as prelude e
the -blooded execution of IL
captured soldiers during the Battl,
of the Bulge last winter, the Inter
national Military Tribunal was tolt
today.
The French prosecution intro.
duced statement by Belgian civil
ians describing the massacre, which
occurred at crossroads near st
With, December IL, 1914.
The Americans, defending tn,
crossroads against a Nazi offensive
took to the bitches as German tank.
approached, the statement said, anc
the tanks fired into the ditche.
until the Americans threw dowr
their guns and raised their hand.
in surrender.
Led to Field.
They were led to a field a shor,
distance away, where the German,
searched each man, taking watches
rings and other personal effects, the
soldiers statement continued.
Then a German armored vehicle
was rolled up and it's guns trained
on the group of prisoners. A Nazi
officer mounted on the vehicle drew
his pistol, aimed at the group and
fired. One of the prisoners fell, the
statement said. He aimed and fired
again. Another American fell.
AS the second man went down
the statement went on, the machine
guns on the armored vehicle opened
up and sprayed lead for two OF
three minutes. Then the vehicle
moved on and three others rolled
past. machine cunning the knot of
men, most Of them already dead.
Finish Off Wounded.
Later, German soldiers walked
among the Americans, finishing off
the wounded, the statement said.
THE soldiers struck them with
gun butts or fired from a short dis
tance into their temples or between
their eyes" the document asserted.
THE shame of this deed will re-
main on the German Army" it
said. I'VE knew these men were un-
armed and had surrendered"
Hermann Goering, his sore throat
mufded in a maroon scarf, glumly
heard French Assistant Prosecutor
Charles Du Bost tell the court about
his Luftwaffe physicians expert
ments.
German medical literature is
very rich in experiments on adults
In good health who died suddenly
between the hours of S and 6 am"
Mr.. Du Bost asserted, after describ-
ing experiments in which thyroid
glands were removed from 81 con-
centration camp inmates and livers
from "a others.
Is Flyers Killed.
Earlier, the tribunal heard that is
survivors of two Liberator bombers
which crashed in Germany on June
81, 1914, were shot to death by SIS
police. who cynically reported the
airmen were slain while attempting
to escape"
Nine bomber crewmen were taken
prisoner by German naval lieuten-
ant after their plane lost two mo-
tors to ~antiaircraft fire and was
forced down In Mecklenburg Prov
ince, captured documents submitted
to the court said.
An SIS officer took charge of the
prisoners despite their violent pro-
tests and ostensibly set out to trans
port them to a nearby air base.
Seven were shot en- route, the docu-
ments said, and two were shot later
in the day.
at the same time and in the same
locality, according to the German
record, another Liberator crashed
and seven other airmen were taken
prisoner by Luftwaffe personnel and
turned over to security police. One
was so gravely wounded he was
takeF to a military hospital at
Schwerin. The other six were shot
attempting escape"
Lynching Approved.
Mr.. Dubost declared that this
lysch-law policy of the Nazis, shown
in their files, was laid down at a
series of conferences attended by
Goering, Joachim Won Ribbentrop,
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Col
Gen. Alfred Jodl and Ernst Kalten-
Drummer, all defendants here.
Victims from the first bomber
were identified in Luftwaffe report
as 1t. Edwin M. Hello, 1t. Richard
j. Ludka, Sergt Warren C. Rankin,
Sergt. Carmine MargiaSso, Pvt.
Charles L. Knowles, jr.; Sergt. STAN
ley Brazzezski, Sergt. Frank Bor-
chick, Sergt. Thomas A. Gensert and
1t Maurice L. Nelson.
Only three of the six dead from
the second crew we're named. They
were Sergt. Sammie D. Winson,
Sergt. George j. Brubrea and Victor
D. Solecek, rank unknown. The
wounded man was listed as Cleye j.