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| FSB: Nazis killed more than 800 patients in a psychiatric hospital near Leningrad in one day |
| 2026-01-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] The Federal Security Service (FSB) Directorate for Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region has released previously classified materials from the criminal case concerning the November 1941 Nazi murder of patients at the P.P. Kashchenko Psychiatric Hospital in the Gatchina District. "Seven hospital employees and another local accomplice, on the orders of the German command—district commandant Major Sperling and local commandant Captain Heger—as well as their appointed hospital director, Shakhromanyan, voluntarily agreed to participate in the poisoning of mentally ill patients by administering lethal injections. As a result, in one day, November 20, 1941, approximately 850 people were killed," TASS quotes the documents. It is noted that in August 1941, German troops captured the Sivoritsy estate, where the Kashchenko Hospital was located. The Nazis looted the facility, and 1,300 mentally ill patients were placed in a building designed for 200. The patients were kept in unsanitary conditions. They were starved, given 100 grams of bread per day; this ration was stopped altogether in October 1941. Approximately 200 patients died under these conditions, and the remaining mentally ill were to be poisoned. According to local witnesses, approximately 1,300 people died in the hospital as a result of the occupiers' actions. However, historians cannot estimate the exact number of Nazi victims in the psychiatric hospital. Researchers, including FSB officers, continue their search for information. The FSB previously declassified documents on Nazi atrocities in Donbas during the Great Patriotic War. The declassified documents document the horrific crimes committed by Nazi invaders in prisoner-of-war camps in Konstantinovka, where approximately 7,800 people were buried on the grounds of a chemical plant. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized the need to counter the revival of Nazi ideology. He noted that fascism and Nazism must not be allowed to rise again, and emphasized the importance of protecting historical truth. |
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