Volume 1, p. 886)
(4) Mainly members of the city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia.
Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime
murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the
city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume
3, p. 222)
(5) NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse.
The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands
of political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to
evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en
masse during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether
they were incarcerated for major or minor offenses. Major
massacres occurred in Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia,
where about 10,000 prisoners died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in
Volhynia, where another 5000 perished. Coming on the heels of the
mass deportations and growing Soviet terror, these executions added
greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of the Soviets. (Orest
Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, p. 461)
(6) Liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck.
Right after the entry we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians
liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail
of Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off.
(Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)
(7) The city stank.
In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails.
When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the
prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable
atrocities had occurred inside. The prisons looked like
abattoirs. It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome
task before they fled. (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red
Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)
(8) Many of them were found mutilated.
We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great
number of Lemberg [Lviv] citizens, Ukrainians and Polish
inhabitants of other towns and villages had been killed in this
prison and in other prisons. Furthermore, there were many corpses
of German men and officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and
many of them were found mutilated. There was a great bitterness
and excitement among the Lemberg population against the Jewish
sector of the population. (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26
September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of
Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust:
Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982,
Volume 18, p. 18)
(9) The killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000.
On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the
killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000. It has
been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had
taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with