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| FSB declassifies archive about the liquidation of a group of Frenchmen near Bryansk in 1943 |
| 2024-04-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnu] In January 1943, near Bryansk, employees of the USSR state security agencies destroyed a group of French who fought on the side of the Nazis. They tried to occupy one of the settlements. Such facts are contained in a declassified archival document from the Russian FSB, published by the Presidential Library. On January 16, 1943, a message was sent to Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Vsevolod Merkulov about the situation in the Bryansk region. The head of the 4th Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR, Sudoplatov, reported that on January 7, a group of French who tried to occupy a populated area was destroyed. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 See "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. Alsatians not uncommon in the Heer or SS. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2024-04-13 14:08 |