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[Regnum] The FSB presented in court more than 200 evidence of the genocide of the Soviet people by the Nazis in the Stalingrad region during the Great Patriotic War, the department of the service for the Volgograd region reported on August 1.
The criminal case on the recognition of Nazi crimes near Stalingrad as genocide was submitted to the court in June 2023. In 14 volumes of the file there is information about the crimes committed against 130 thousand civilians and soldiers of the Red Army. On August 1, the court will hear witnesses in the case.
“Materials from security, law enforcement and supervisory agencies, archival and educational institutions, and search teams were used as an evidence base for the purpose of considering these crimes,” the FSB said.
Among the materials submitted to the court are protocols of interrogations of German prisoners of war, eyewitness accounts, official documents of the NKVD. The documents contain information about crimes against civilians and Soviet prisoners of war, data on the perpetrators of crimes and their victims, places and circumstances of the crimes.
The Stalingrad region was partially occupied by Nazi troops in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad, which ended on February 2, 1943 with the victory of the Red Army, became one of the main battles of the Great Patriotic War.
Previously, decisions to recognize as genocide and a crime against humanity the massacres of civilians during the Great Patriotic War were taken by the courts of a number of regions of Russia - Moscow, Smolensk, Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Bryansk, Oryol, Voronezh, Leningrad, Belgorod regions, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territory, Republic of Crimea.
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