I contacted Dr. Samuel Sinner, author of "The Open Wound - The Genocide of German Ethnic Minorities in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1915-1949 - and Beyond". My question to him was whether he found any evidence of cannibalism among German-Russians in research for the book. His answer was "Abundant evidence exists for cannibalism in the Volga villages during both famines in the 1920s and 1930s, including photographic evidence, which is disturbing and gruesome". Gary Martens