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by Peter » 16 Jan 2003, 21:19
An interesting question
It is a fact that SS units entering the former GPU prison at Taganrod on 28 March 1942 found the well contained mutilated human bodies, some civilian and some SS soldiers. The SS were identified as members of 3 Kompanie/LSSAH.
6 men had been tortured and killed (SS-Sturmann Gehrken, Lippke, Steiner and Schwillinsky and SS-Mann Mehnke and Ploetz). They had been made Prisoner of War on 12 Oct 1941.
After identification by SS-Hauptscharf Hueser and SS-Stabscharf Bruhn, Sergeant-Majors of 3 Kompanie, they were medically examined. Gehrken had had 4 fingers chopped off and is skull was smashed in, Lippke had been shot in the head, Schwillinsky’s head was smashed in, Steiners spine was smashed and his skull broken, Mehnke’s right hand had been chopped off and he had a shattered rib cage and had been shot in the head, Ploetz had had his spine smashed, left side of ribcage smashed in.
I do not condone the alledged massacres due to the anger of the LSSAH, if the allegation is correct, but I do understand it.
Pete