Show ie Nazi N i Practiced Shooting On Yanks Tribunal s Told By D DANIEL LlIEL DE LUCE I Jan 31 Up A UT-A A AGerman German officer used a group o of unarmed American prisoners o of war for target as a prelude to the cold-blooded cold of captured soldiers during the battle battlo of ot tho the bulge last st winter the international military tribunal was t told ld Thursday The French pr prosecution e introduced introduced introduced intro intro- a stat statement by a German soldier describing the tho massacre which occurred at a crossroads I Inear near Saint on Dec 12 1944 The Americans American defending the crossroads against a nazi offensive offensive offensive offen offen- sive took to the ditches as German German German Ger Ger- man tanks approached the tho statement state tate ment said and the tanks fired into the ditches until the Americans threw down their guns and raised their hands in surrender Take Rings Ring Watches They were led to toa a a. field a short distance away where the Germans searched each man taking watches rings and other personal persona I effects the soldiers soldier's statement continued Then a a. German armored vehicle rolled up and its guns trained on the group of ot prisoners priSoner A naz nazi officer mounted on the vehicle drew his pistol aimed at the gra group p and fired One of tho the prisoner prisoners fell the statement said He aimed and fired again Another Another Another An An- other American fell felI As the second man went down the the statement went on the machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns on the armored vehicle opened up and sprayed lead for two or three minutes Then the vehicle moved on and three others rolled past machine gunning the knot of men most of them already dead Later German soldiers walked among the Americans Americana finishing off the wounded the statement said Finished Wounded The soldiers struck them with gun butts or fired from a short distance into their temples or between between between be be- tween their eyes the document asserted The shame of this deed will re remaIn remain remain re- re main upon the German army it said We knew these theBe men were unarmed and had surrendered Former H Hermann ermann G Goering his sore Bore throat muffled in a maroon scarf glumly heard French Prosecutor Charles Dubost tell the court about his physicians physicians' ns' ns experiments German medical literature is very rich in experiments on adults in good health who died suddenly between the hours hours' of ot 5 and 6 a a. a m. m mr Dubost asserted after describing experiments in which thyroid glands were removed from 21 con con- I I camp inmates and livers from 21 24 others Poisoned Bullet He Ho said Bald another German Gennan experiment experiment ment in which a poisoned bullet was fired into a a. living victims victim's 1 leg so BO that hi his slow death might be observed could not be matched except among savage tribes Earlier the tho tribunal heard that 15 survivors of ot two American LIberator Liberator Liberator Lib LIb- bombers which crashed in Germany on Juno June 21 1911 1944 were shot to death by S S police who cynically reported the airmen were slain lain while attempting to escape Nine bomber crewmen were taken prisoner by a n German naval lieutenant after their plane lost two motors to antiaircraft fire and was forced down in Mecklenburg Mecklenburg Mecklenburg burg province captured documents submitted to the court said An S S officer took charge of ot the prisoners despite their violent protests and ostensibly set out to transport them to a near near-by air air b base c. c Seven were shot en route Ithe the documents document said and two were shot ahot later in the day |