Investigation into Jedwabne massacre of Jews reveals no Nazi involvement

The head of the National Remembrance Institute (IPN), professor Leon Kieres, said yesterday that currently there is no evidence that there were any uniformed German divisions in Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when a massacre of Jews occurred. Yesterday IPN presented the results of criminological research according to which 89 shells from a machine gun found near the barn where Jews were burnt in 1941 did not come from that time period. "The research showed that part of the shells found near the barn comes from World War I," said IPN's Radoslaw Ignatiew, the prosecutor running the investigation. The remaining shells come from a machine gun which was introduced in Germany in 1942. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.Z.