German X post: https://xcancel.com/from_cure/status/2068003877505454455 Link to English language edition: https://archive.org/details/crimes-against-the-wehrmacht-verbrechen-an-der-wehrmacht-franz-w.-seidler_202508/page/7/mode/2up DeepL translation, numbers in parentheses = page #: German soldiers discover thousands of ethnic Germans in the GPU prison in Lemberg, shot and mutilated; men and women hang, bound by their hands and feet, from a metal hook driven into their necks just below the chin. Some of the prisoners lie decapitated in the prison basement. Pregnant women hang crucified on the wooden walls; their bodies have been slashed open, and their unborn children have been torn from their wombs. Other corpses have had their eyes gouged out and their tongues cut off. Many corpses show fingers crushed by thumb screws. (4, 322, 415, 420, 443, 536) An SS member who had been taken prisoner is hanged from a tree by the Russians; 16 other SS men are tortured and mutilated by having their ears and tongues cut off and nailed to their chests. (532) Near Rowno, German soldiers from a company of a Württemberg-Baden regiment are killed after being taken prisoner. The dead show signs of bayonet wounds; their genitals, noses, and ears have been cut off, their eyes gouged out, and their scalps removed. Others have had their hearts cut out, and a portrait of a woman has been inserted into the hole in their chests. (52) Before German troops marched into Minsk, the Bolsheviks executed German prisoners of war by shooting them in the back of the neck. Four members of the German Air Force were beaten to death in the NKVD prison in Minsk. (224) North of Dünaburg, twenty soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Army were killed after being taken prisoner. They showed numerous stab wounds. Their eyes have been gouged out; their tongues and genitals have been cut off. (226) A reconnaissance patrol of the Grenadier Regiment No. 227, consisting of a non-commissioned officer and ten men, is ambushed and killed by the Russians in Galicia. The bodies are found horribly mutilated by German troops. (85) In Bessarabia, five German soldiers who had been taken prisoner are found dead by a search party. Three have had their tongues cut out; all five have the Soviet star carved into their chests. (5) At the Husiatyn train station (USSR), Russians cut out the genitals of German men and women and gouged out their eyes. (69) North of the runway to Kyiv, a German messenger who fell into Russian hands is found dead and mutilated. His ears and tongue have been cut off. (383) Five German prisoners of war are killed east of Brest-Litovsk by Russian soldiers through numerous cuts and stab wounds to the neck, chest, and face. (254) At a crossroads outside Tarnopol, the bodies of mutilated civilians are found. Most were killed by a shot to the back of the neck. Their fingernails and hair have been burned off, and their limbs forcibly broken. Six members of the German Wehrmacht have their eyes gouged out, their genitals cut off, and their fingernails burned off. (443) German troops find Polish hostages (men, women, and children) killed by the Russians in the Augustowo prison. (17) German soldiers are ambushed and shot by Russian civilians and Red Army soldiers dressed in civilian clothing in and around Grodno. June 23, 24, and 25. (366) German soldiers taken prisoner by the Russians are tied to trees and mutilated by having their genitals, tongues, and ears cut off. June 24. (76) On the Dünaburg–Kraslawa runway near the Dünaburg Bridge, a German soldier, completely mutilated by bayonet wounds inflicted by Russian soldiers, is found dead. June 27. (64) In a recaptured village north of Dünaburg, twenty members of a Wehrmacht unit are recovered from the village pond. Some of them have cuts on their necks; others have had their genitals cut off. June 28 (374) In the Slonim area, a German lance corporal is found still alive, his tongue cut off. June 29 (320)