[Regnum] The FSB has declassified the criminal case against Nazi executioner Günther Max Müller, who brutally murdered residents of Donbas during World War II.
Müller, also known as Braungard Oswieter Richard, was an investigator for the Field Police Punitive Commando of the 17th Army of the Wehrmacht and was involved in atrocities against and extermination of civilians.
He personally arrested, interrogated, and executed residents of Stalino (Donetsk), Artemovsk, and Konstantinovka. The German recruited agents and sent young Soviet citizens into slavery in Nazi Germany.
Günther Max Müller was born in 1915, was a member of the Nazi youth organization Hitler Youth, and served in the field police from October 1940.
The Nazi was captured on August 28, 1944. Fearing execution for escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp, he gave his uncle's last name, Braunhard, when arrested. This did not save him from punishment.
On April 11, the FSB declassified archival materials about German engineers involved in the construction of crematoria and gas chambers for the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald. Engineers from the company Topf & Sons were involved in the design and construction of the crematoria, as well as the equipment for the gas chambers in the camps. The company's employees were aware of what was happening in the camps.
Russia commemorates Genocide Remembrance Day on April 19. On this day in 1943, the USSR issued a decree that for the first time formalized the Nazi policy of exterminating civilians in occupied territories.