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Malmedv Gls*Found, Arms Up in DeathDACHAU, May 28 (UP)—The frozen bodies of American prisoners murdered by the SS at Malmedv in December, 1944, still had their hands raised in a sign of surrender when they were found a month later, an Army inspector general’s reportrevealed today.The report, previously confidential, which was submitted by the prosecution in the trial of 74 SS men here, said that when American forces retook the field southeast of Malmedy on Jan. 14. 1945, fourweeks after the massacre had taken place, they had found the murdered Americans lying under two to five feet of snow.Bodies PhotographedThe report, which was signed by Col. Rosser L. Hunter, of Fort Jackson, S. C., former inspector general erf the European Theater, said that Army engineers had examined the field for booby traps before any attempt was made to reach the j bodies. The snow was then removed I and each of the 71 bodies found; was labeled and photographed just as it was when found.“All the bodies found were frozen hard and stiff,” the report said. “In some cases the bodies had become frozen to each other and frozen to the ground.” The bodies were carefully removed to nearby Malmedy where they were thawed” so they couMbe sepaiTrted frbin-one another and examined. Most showed “multiple wounds from small-arms fire in the face, chest and stomach” 'but some had received only a single shot “in the temple, forehead or behind the ears.”Some of the bodies had been tom by artillery fire of the advancing troops.Both Hunters affadavit and the lengthy individual medical report which accompanied it charged that the eyes had been cut out of some of the bodies.
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Wed, May 29, 1946
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