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Germany looks to Russia for clues on WWII massacre

For over 50 years, the inhabitants of this small east German town of Treuenbrietzen kept quiet about a World War II massacre. And many today still have no wish to revisit the past.

The long-forgotten slaughter of some 1,000 German civilians occurred after Russian Red Army soldiers occupied the town, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of Berlin, in April 1945, in the final days of the war.

Under East German communist rule, it would have been unwise to mention the matter.
But in the wake of German reunification, a local historian has sought to unravel the truth behind the killings, and the prosecutor's office has now been pressed to investigate the case.

A spokesman for the Potsdam prosecutor said an official request for information about the massacre was forwarded to Russian authorities in November.
Read entire article at AFP