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| Excavations reveal fate of victims of Nazi forces from the Pskov concentration camp Moglino |
| 2021-10-30 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] Employees of the Nazi concentration camp in Moglino, Pskov region, unlike their "colleagues" from Tin Gorka, Novgorod region, were partially punished for their crimes. RIA Novosti was told about this by a leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Boris Kovalev, commenting on the new excavations in Moglino. The remains of another 188 people were found there, including several dozen children. In total, according to historians, in 1941-1944, Nazi punishers killed about 3 thousand people there. "The results of the investigation of the war crimes of Moglino may become as resonant as the new data on the tragedy in Tin Gorka. But if the executioners of Tin Gorka escaped punishment for the most part, then according to the events in Moglino some of the criminals were brought to justice in 60-70 years," noted the scientist. The camp was organized by the Nazis shortly after the occupation of Pskov in 1941. Initially, Soviet prisoners of war were kept in the Moghlin "factory of death", who, at the sight of German machine guns, repaired the Riga-Pskov road. According to the recollections of local residents, out of 280 soldiers, no more than 30 survived in a few months. Since March 1942, civilians, including children, had also been brought here. The place became known as a transit camp for the unreliable and was under the direct control of the Pskov external department of the Estonian security police and the German SD. As follows from the documents of the regional FSB, which RIA Novosti got acquainted with, Estonians worked in the protection of the concentration camp. According to the plans of the Nazi command, it was planned to transfer part of the region after the Second World War to Estonia. In the course of recent excavations, they found, possibly, the place of the murder of dozens of orphans, in which a high-ranking SS official participated, Yuri Alekseev, director of the Trustworthy History Foundation, told RIA Novosti. Meanwhile, last Tuesday, the Soletsky court of the Novgorod region, for the first time in the history of Russian legal proceedings, recognized the massacres of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War as genocide, in fact, the massacres in Tin Gorka . According to the court, they were part of Germany's plan to free the territories from civilians and their subsequent colonization. Estonian punisher about the shootings in Pskov: "I didn't count how many I killed" [RIA Novosti] They took the prisoners, took them to the pit, shot them, no one counted the corpses, then they drank vodka. This is how the former Estonian punisher who served in the Great Patriotic War in Pskov and the region described his crimes so casually. These and other facts from the life of the occupied territory can be learned from the archival materials declassified by the FSB Directorate for the Pskov Region, which were reviewed by RIA Novosti. We are talking about the protocol of the interrogation of the Estonian Arnold Weedler, who served as a guard at the headquarters of the German SD security service, and then in the Moglino concentration camp, as well as a copy of the protocol of the inspection of the places of executions and the burning of the corpses of Soviet civilians and prisoners of war near the village of Androkhnovo. Shooting "debut" As Weedler said during interrogation, the first time he participated in the execution of prisoners in the fall of 1942, when he served in Pskov, occupied by the Nazis, in the protection of the SD headquarters. "We took about fifteen prisoners from the basements, where the police department was located, put them in a car and went to the prison. There they also took 30 to 35 people. Tthey were also put in the car. There were two cars in total. The prisoners were all men, all civilians,." Weedler recalled. According to him, at the place of execution, the prisoners were stripped, divided into five or six groups. "One group after another was brought to the pit and shot," said the punisher. "All the guards accompanying the prisoner were shooting. None of the shot people escaped," he added. Executions without counting In the spring of 1943, Weedler, along with other Estonians, was transferred as a guard to the Moglin camp. There he also took part in mass executions. "In the Moglin camp we already wore the German uniform, which we received in Pskov. The same emblem remained on the cap - the skull and bones, the letters SD on the sleeve," Weedler recalled. The camp guard was an Estonian Thorn. "Around July-August 1943, I accompanied a large group of prisoners to be shot," Weedler said. "In July 1943, people from the Moglin camp were loaded into four or five cars, I don’t remember exactly. It was a large group, about a hundred, if not more. People were of different nationalities, among them were children, women. On the site of the prisoners, again they were divided into groups, stripped, brought to the pit and shot, including both adults and children," the punisher said. The punishers did not bother counting the number of victims. "I also shot. How many I killed, I did not count. Everyone was shot, but no one counted," added Weedler. After returning to the camp, the executioners received encouragement from the Nazi leaders. "After the execution they buried everyone, returned to the camp, treated us to vodka," Weedler recalled. According to him, all the camp guards took part in that execution. Among them, Weedler remembered the Estonians Luukas, Krispin, Purkuu. Some time later, a group of 50-60 people was taken away for execution, Weedler said. "They said they were Jews. They brought them to the same place where they had been shot before. Everyone was shot," he added. Among those who participated in that execution, Weedler named the Estonians Lepmets and Oisel. Like other punishers, Weedler was found by the KGB after the war. By the verdict of the court he was shot. The general picture of the atrocities of Hitler's punishers and their accomplices in the Pskov region is complemented by the results of an examination of the places of executions and burning of the corpses of peaceful Soviet citizens and prisoners of war near the village of Androkhnovo, carried out in May 1945. "During the inspection, the following was established: 20 meters (from) the southern side of the Androkhnovo village and 500 meters from the highway going (in the direction) Leningrad - Pskov and 800 meters from the leather warehouse in the forest, a site was discovered: a cemetery of buried executed Soviet prisoners of war . An area with a diameter of 50 meters, which is surrounded by a circle of barbed wire," said the protocol of the inspection of the place of this terrible find. For the reliable burning of corpses, the punishers first doused them with a flammable liquid, tar. Tt is noted in the protocol. Two more places of execution and burial of prisoners of war were found on the territory of the warehouse of leather raw materials, and nearby, on the side of a country road, three. In each of these three places, apparently, there were several dozen corpses. In addition, further in the direction of Androkhnovo, ten more places of executions and burials of prisoners of war were found, and on the western side of the village: a lot of ashes from burnt corpses. Earlier, RIA Novosti got acquainted with multi-page protocols of interrogation of Estonians Johannes Ohvril and Viktor Teinbas, who served as guards in the Moglin concentration camp, and also other witnesses, dated 1966-1967. During interrogations, the criminals told how they contributed to the destruction of the civilians of the Pskov region, as well as named the names of other Estonian punishers and described in detail how the Nazis executed the prisoners of the concentration camp. The Nazis organized the Moglino concentration camp shortly after the occupation of Pskov in 1941. Initially, Soviet prisoners of war were kept there, who at the sight of German machine guns, repaired the Riga-Pskov road. According to the recollections of local residents, out of 280 soldiers, no more than 30 survived in a few months. Since March 1942, civilians, including children, have also been brought to the camp. The place became known as a transit camp for unreliable persons and was under the direct control of the Pskov external department of the Estonian security police and SD. According to the plans of the Nazi command, part of the region after the Second World War was planned to be transferred to Estonia , and therefore the Estonian punitive forces were actively involved in the occupied Pskov region. Historians believe that about three thousand people could have died in this camp from 1941 to 1944. After the discovery in Moglino of the burial place of civilians who died at the hands of the Nazis during the war, the Investigative Committee of Russia began a pre-investigation check. Now on the site of the former concentration camp, search engines of the Western Military District are working, they have already found the remains of 45 Red Army soldiers. The remains will be buried in the memorial cemetery. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Or the massacre of 5 Millions by the China Virus? |
| Posted by: Bugs Huperong1639 2021-10-30 17:02 |
| #1 But let's not forget the USSR Katyn Forrest massacre of nearly 22,000 Polish military soldiers. Or USSR Nemmersdorf massacre of German towns people. Or the NAZI St. Vith Belgium massacre of US troops. All examples of National Socialism/Communism in action when it taking or trying to keep power. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-10-30 07:39 |