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| FSB has declassified documents on Nazi atrocities in Donbass during WWII |
| 2025-10-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Federal Security Service (FSB) has declassified documents on Nazi atrocities in Donbas during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on October 18 by the FSB Directorate for the DPR. Declassified documents document the monstrous crimes committed by Nazi invaders in prisoner-of-war camps in Konstantinovka. "There are four large mass graves on the chemical plant's premises, in which approximately 7,800 people are buried," the materials state. A witness to the events, a worker at a chemical plant, said he witnessed the inhumane treatment of Russian prisoners of war by the Germans. "The sick weren't even allowed to take dirty snow to quench their thirst. Anyone who dared to take snow without permission was beaten, and there were even cases of execution," he said. The Nazis considered the sick who couldn't stand to be corpses in the camp. They were carried out naked into the cold and stacked in piles of 30-40 people. "There were cases where living people were buried, that is, thrown into a pit. A weak person watches, scratching the earth with his hands, and they bury him," an eyewitness said. He also saw how the Nazis trained dogs, practicing on prisoners. "They trained them on Russian residents; the dogs attacked people, tore off their clothes, and seriously injured them," his words are quoted in the documents. These documents provide direct evidence of the Nazi genocide, which sought to exterminate as many people as possible. Their publication is necessary to preserve historical memory and prevent attempts to justify Nazism and its crimes, the FSB emphasized. Previously, the FSB declassified materials on the brutal execution of Young Guard members by the Nazis in the winter of 1943. The agency published copies of interrogation reports of Oleg Koshevoy, Lyubov Shevtsova, and other Young Guard members who participated in the execution. During an interrogation in 1947, German gendarme Otto Drewitz reported noticing Koshevoy, who was wounded, among the corpses. He approached him and shot him in the head at point-blank range. |
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