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GIs Were Used For Targets, Court Is ToldDACHAU, June 6 (AP)—Helpless American prisoners were shot from the rear after «being cold-bloodedly lined up by SS troops as stationary targets for small-arms practice, a defendant in the War RfSssacres trialhere confessed today.T.' Rauh, a veteran of the SS Hitler Lifeguard division, testified that he and his comrades selected seven or eight Americans at a time, carefully spaced them two y^ds apart in a Belgian wood, then killed them from a distance* of less than10 feet.“We took turns firing,” Rauh:s sworn statement declared. “We made them face the other way, because if they had seen that we aimed at them, they would have moved and offered a bad target. I fired a single shot. It hit an American in the backof the head.” . .Machine gunner Friedel Kies, another of the 74 SS defendants i accused of atrocities during the Battle of the Bulge, admitted that his unit took no. chance that any American might survive and sprayed with heavy fire a pasture near Englesdorf, Belgium, where 50 to 60 enemy soldiers apparently lay dead.
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Fri, Jun 07, 1946
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