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Yank Identifies SS TrooperAs Malmedv Massacre LeaderDACHAU. May 21 (AP)—A grim Kentuckian confronted 74 SS veterans in the Dachau war crimes court today and carefully pointed his accusing finger at the former Nazi trooper who he charged had started the Malmedy massacre of ii unarmed American prisoners by ur-ing wantonly at them with hispistol. * _ „ *Former 1/Lt. Virgil P. Lary Jr., of. Lexington. Ky., first of six Malmedy survivors to testify lor the prosecution. climaxed his dramatic story of the atrocity, by personally identifying Georg Fleps. 23, of the 1st Waffen SS Panzer Regt.. as a kutei.“We were standing in the field atMalmedv crossroads. 130 to 175 of us, unarmed with our hands clasped over our heads. Lary testified. I saw no wounded men. They were all Americans. .• Two vehicles • drove up and, parked on our flank and I saw a « German place a machine gun over' the side of one. Then another vemcle drove up and stopped between the other two. I saw a man take his pistol and aim in the direction o. our group. He fired two shots from a distance of 15 yards. Ai™e,UvsJ' I saw an American with his hands elapsed over his head go down. I did not see ibe effect of the second shot, i Continued on Page S)
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Wed, May 22, 1946
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