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‘We enter the prison. I’m overcome with cold and horror! Like a nightmare, the recent tragedy affects my imagination, in my ears ring the gunshots and the agonizing, desperate screams of those murdered. Arrest, execution, escape … corpses … blood.’

Translated from Oleksii Satsiuk, Smertonostsi: opovidannia (na tli perezhytoho) (Buenos Aires: Peremoha, 1947), 124

3 July 1941

‘Les atrocites bolchevik’ (Bolshevik atrocities), Le Matin (Paris) (3 July 1941): 3.

Une vision d’epouvante dans une prison de Lwow

BERLIN, 2 juillet. – Un correspondant de guerre allemande, le docteur Achim Holtz, a télégraphié le récit suivant:

‘Lwow vient d’être libérée. Nous nous rendons avec une commission à la prison Sainte-Brigitte.

‘Un escalier bas y conduit. Le sang macule les marches. La cave comporte trois pièces. Le sol est plein de flaques de sang. Des morceaux de chair humaine gisent ça et là, au milieu de vêtements et de casquettes. Au mur, il n’y a pas trace de balles. On comprend que les victimes de la terreur bolchevik ont péri sous le couteau. Des cadavres ont été jetés dans les caves annexes. L’odeur qui s’en degage ne permet que d’y jeter un rapide coup d’oeil.

‘Dans l’autre prison, celle de la Guépéou, les cadavres sont encore dans la cour. Dans l’entrée, 20 ou 30 sont entassés. Ceux des femmes sont demi-nus. Les seins ont été coupés. Tous ont un aspect effroyable.

‘20,000 hommes ont pourri dans cette prison, la plupart ont été assassiné ici, le reste a été évacué sur une autre prison soviétique, ou le même sort les attend. Nous longeons un couloir, toutes les portes des cellules sont ouvertes. Dans chaque cellule, se trouve le corps d’une victime: tous les prisonniers ont été assassinés avant l’entrée des troupes allemandes.’

5 July 1941

Steinkopf, Alvin J., ‘First Eyewitness Story from the Russian Front,’ New York World-Telegram (5 July 1941).

[For the last six years 44-year old Mr. Steinkopf, a native of Minnesota, has been an Associated Press correspondent in Central Europe. He gives here the first eye-witness account of operations on the German-Russian front.]

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