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Le notizie che non sentirete sui TG demokratici: la polizia ceca sta cercando gli esecutori di un massacro di ragazzi tra i 14 ed i 15 anni della Hitlerjugend a guerra finita.

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Police investigating post-war death of German boys

Czech police have started the investigation into the murder of five German boys in Postoloporty, north Bohemia, that took place shortly after the end of World War Two in June 1945, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes today.

One of the witnesses of the event living in Bavaria has recently filed a lawsuit concerning the murder, the daily says.

The crime of murder falls under the status of limitations in the Czech Republic after 20 years but never in Germany.

Five members of the Hitlerjugend youth organisation were standing an honorary guard in the Postoloporty barracks on the day of murder. However, the boys aged between 14 and 15 left the barracks. According to one version, they intended to escape and according to the other they just wanted to pick up ffruit in an orchard behind the fence.

However, the boys were caught and shot dead. They were apparently killed by Czech soldiers, the paper says.

"We have received a huge basket of archive documents from Germany that are now being translated into Czech," Helena Psenickova from the north Bohemian police murder department told the paper.

The main task of the police will be to find out whether any of the persons involved in the accident that happened 60 years ago is sill alive.

However, if found these people will never be tried in the Czech Republic or extradited to Germany.

In May 1945, 700 to 800 German men were shot dead in Postoloporty and only German women and children lived in the town at the time of the accodemt that put a full stop after a rebellion in the town.

The Postoloparty post-war massacre in which as many as 800 Germans died, according to historians, was investigated by the police several times after the 1989 fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia, but the case was always shelved due to the lack of evidence and witnesses.

[ Fonte: Prague Daily ]