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| Documents on Nazi crimes during WWII in Krasnoarmeysk. Donbass have been declassified. |
| 2025-12-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The FSB Directorate for the Donetsk People's Republic has declassified archival documents on Nazi war crimes committed in Krasnoarmeysk during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on December 6 by the agency's press service. An expert commission published documents from 1944 confirming the large-scale crimes committed by Nazi collaborators against Soviet prisoners of war and civilians. In the Krasnoarmeysky District, Nazi authorities established camps where torture, abuse, and murder took place. According to documents, 1,500 people died from backbreaking labor, starvation, torture, and executions at School No. 4 in Krasnoarmeysk, and 1,326 at School No. 3. 1,212 people died at Shevchenko Mine No. 19/22, and 1,420 at Dimitrov Mine No. 5/6. In the village of Sergeyevka, mass executions were recorded, including hangings, shootings, and especially brutal murders. A total of 3,250 Soviet prisoners of war perished. Executions of prisoners of war were also recorded in the Zverevsky, Zelenyansky, and Ulyanovsky village councils. In the Krasnolimansky village council, the Nazis executed 256 people. "During the retreat from the Krasnoarmeysky district, the Nazi authorities, through traitors to our Motherland, the Chief of Police Vecherov and his assistant Makarovsky, doused the cells with gasoline and set them on fire, in which 48 Soviet and party activists languished in the Nazi dungeons and were burned," the document states. Thus, in the Krasnoarmeysky district, 14,286 people were tortured and killed by the Nazi invaders. On October 18, the FSB declassified documents detailing Nazi atrocities committed in prisoner-of-war camps in Konstantinovka during the Great Patriotic War. The chemical plant site contains four mass graves, containing the remains of approximately 7,800 people. |
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