In another documented incident, the Gestapo was marching six American fliers through the town of Rüsselsheim, which they had bombed the previous day, when workers from a local factory came pouring into the street, demanding that the Americans be lynched. According to witnesses, two women began screaming, “There are the terrorizers of last night, kill the dogs! We can’t have pity!” One of the women threw a brick and the mob soon joined in, pelting the airmen with stones and beating them with farm tools until they collapsed and died—one airman pleading before he took a fatal blow, “Don’t kill
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