A total of 596 prisoners of war, nurses, construction workers and female communication personnel (Nachrichtenhelferinnen) were killed.
Many of the bodies were horribly mutilated, ears and noses cut off and genitals amputated and stuffed into their mouths.
A German military judge who was at the scene stated in an interview during the 1970s that he saw a female body with her legs spread-eagled and a broomstick rammed into her genitals.
In the cellar of the main train station, around 120 Germans had been herded into a large storage room and then mowed down with machine guns.
[citation needed] On 21 March 1983, the West German Radio (WDR) broadcast a documentary on Soviet war crimes in the east from the files of the Wehrmacht investigative authority which also showed footage of the propaganda troops of the Wehrmacht on the massacre of Grischino and witnesses[clarification needed] of the massacre had a chance to speak.