OCCUPIED EUROPE: Butchers' Butcher

> Reinhard Heydrich, Reich's Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, whom the Czechs think of as Reznik (Butcher), last week ordered the execution of five butchers accused of the "illegal sale" of hogs, cattle and other animals.

>In London the Polish Government-in-Exile reported that 112,000 Poles have been hanged or shot by Nazi death squads.

>The Yugoslav Government-in-Exile charged that Hitler plans the extermination of the Serbian race, that more than 300,000 men, women and children already have been slaughtered.

>In Belgium rats were butchered, sold for 20 francs in markets.

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