Word: kharkov
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Outside the courtroom, Kharkov's Theater Hall, workmen were busy opening mass graves,, carefully lifting rotted corpses, heaping up the bones...
...many were killed by the Germans in Kharkov and Kharkov Province...
Thus last week Moscow reported the beginning of the long, slow process of calling the Nazi executioners to account. In London, the Allied War Crimes Commission was wrestling with technicalities of such trials (TIME, Dec. 20).*In Kharkov, they had begun. Not since the trials of the Trotzkyites had there been such proceedings in a Soviet court...
Four Tools. These men were tools, and behind each was a chain of higher and higher personages reaching up to the topmost ranks of Naziism's hierarchy. Steadily, implacably, the Soviet courts would follow up this chain. At Kharkov, the pattern of prosecution, trial and judgment was unfolded...
...trial lasted four days. On the fifth day, in Kharkov's devastated square, the men were hanged...