Some ridiculously ridiculous
accusations levelled at Germans from perhaps
the biggest liar at the Nuremberg Trial, which was no mean feat.
Every thing that
follows, are exact quotes from Russian prosecutor
Counsellor Smirnov at the International Military Tribunal at
Nuremberg. He lied, a lot.
"the Germans educated the
Hitler Youth by training these young fascists to
shoot at living targets - at children
specially handed over to the Hitler Youth to serve as targets."
"Extraordinary State Commission established that, in
Lvov, the Germans: "Spared neither men, women, or children. The adults
were simply killed on the spot; the children were given
to the Hitler Youth for target practice."
"Men would
be taken by the legs and torn in two. Infants from
1 month to 3 years old were thrown into buckets of water
and left to drown. A man would be tied to a post facing the sun and
kept there till he died of sunstroke."
"Sometimes, to
please his 9-year-old daughter, he (commandant
of the Yanov Camp, Obersturmfuehrer Willhaus) had
children between the ages of 2 and 4 years tossed in the air and then
took pot shots at them, while his daughter applauded
and shrieked, 'Papa, do it again; do it again, Papa!' And
he did it again"
"The
internees of this camp were exterminated for no reason at all, often as
a result of a bet. A woman witness, Kirschner, informed the
Investigating Commission that a Gestapo Commissar,
Wepke, bet the other camp executioners that he could cut a boy in half
with one stroke of the axe. They did not believe him. So
he caught a 10-year-old boy on the road, made him kneel down, told
him to hide his face in the folded palms of his hands, made one test
stroke, placed the child's head in a more convenient position and
with one single stroke cut the boy in half. The
Hitlerites heartily congratulated Wepke, shaking him warmly by the hand."
"I saw
for myself how infants were taken from
their mothers and murdered before their eyes: One
small leg would be seized by a hand, the executioner would stand on the
other and the infant would be torn in half"- stated witness Edward
Baran."
(All Above) Nuremberg Trial
Proceedings Vol. 7: Thursday,
14 February 1946
"Modisch was a medical assistant in the
551st German Military Hospital in the city of Smolensk... In
addition, he used, for medical treatment of German
military personnel, the blood of Soviet children, ranging in age from 6
to 8 years, by taking great quantities of blood from them, after which
the children died."
"The Germans
initiated their monstrous atrocities by poisoning 245 children of school
age."
"According to instructions issued by the
German commandant, all the school children were ordered to appear at the
school at a given time. On arrival, the 245 children,
school books in hand, were sent to a factory school outside the town,
allegedly for a walk. There the cold and hungry infants
were offered coffee and poisoned pies. Since there was not enough
coffee to go round, those who did not get any were sent to the infirmary
where a German orderly smeared their lips with a quick-acting poison. In
a few minutes all the children were dead."
"When the Red
Army entered Kerch, in January 1942, the Baguerovsko trench was
investigated. It was discovered that this trench-1
kilometer in length, 4 meters in width, and 2 meters in depth-was filled
to overflowing with bodies of women, children, old men,
and boys and girls in their teens. Near the trench were
frozen pools of blood."
"A school
teacher, M. N. Kolessnikova, stated that the Germans
killed a 13-year-old boy for taking an old car tire and trying to swim
in it while bathing in the sea."
"Maria Bondarenko,
who lived in the village of Adjimushkaya, in an attempt
to save her three children from starvation, appealed
to some Germans working in the kitchen, for a little food. They
poured some thin gruel into a small bowl. The
Bondarenko family ate it greedily. A few hours later
the mother and all three children were dead. The
fascist henchmen had poisoned them."
"It has been
ascertained from the testimony of N. H. Shoumilova that in
July a German officer shot a 6-year-old boy merely because he was
singing a Soviet song in the streets of the town."
"Practically
all summer long the dead body of a 9-year-old boy dangled in the 'Sac
and Vanzetti' garden; the child had been hanged for
plucking some apricots from a tree."
"Even the corpses of children were
mutilated. Some had their small fingers cut off, their buttocks
chopped up, their eyes gouged out."
(All Above) Nuremberg Trial
Proceedings Vol. 7: Friday,
15 February 1946
"a
14-year-old boy, Vanya Gromov, from
the village of Novinki, who had been strapped to a
table by the Hitlerites and then had had his right arm sawed off with a
rusty saw. The
Germans chopped off both hands of 12-year-old Vanya Kryukov, of the
village of Kryukovo, in the Kursk region, and drove
him, bleeding profusely, toward the Soviet troops."
"In the
beginning of 1943 at Camp Birkenau 164 boys were taken away to the
hospital, where they were killed by injections of
carbolic acid in the heart"
"The Gestapo
members snatched the children from them, seized them by the arms or
legs, and threw them alive into the pit; when the
mothers ran after them to the pit, they were shot."
"The
executioner would seize children by the feet, tear them apart while they
were still alive, and throw them into the fire."
"Children were
often cut in half with rusty saws and subjected to other forms of
torture."
