ABSTRACT
The warders, who mostly belonged to the old prison staff and were not themselves Bolshevists, told everything they knew: about the sudden appearance of the executioners and the hasty removal of the bewildered men, still half asleep. Also various persons were found who lived in the vicinity of Bickern Wood and, unnoticed by the Reds, had been involuntary witnesses, at a distance, of the gruesome happenings there. The statements of these people supplemented the information given by the warders. Finally, several months later, after the departure of the Reds, the common grave was opened and all the corpses of the murdered men were discovered. Day was breaking as the prison lorries, laden with their victims and their horde of escorting male and female Bolshevists, reached the distant Bickern Wood. Attracted by the shots and cries, some peasants had emerged from their cottages and had stood watching the massacre from a distance.
