The Archive · 1939

More German Atrocities

Lwow, Sept 15.

That Herr Hitler ordered his troops fo "destroy everything and everyone found either resisting or fleeing" was broadcast from here in several Janguages describing German atrocities.

This order, the broadcast said, was carried out to the letter and Germans wreaked "havoc in central and southern Poland, Sieldce, a city of 80,000 inhabitants, is almost comple-rely destroyed." Lublin, another rge town, vas burning this morning. German pilots shot Polish airmen escaping in parachutes, the broadcast added, while pedestrians evacuating from towns were mercilessly machine-gunned. These methods, the broadcast concluded, cannot succeed curbing the morsle of the nation,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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