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| Archives on Nazi accomplices' cruelty in Kherson during WWII released |
| 2024-11-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The FSB Directorate of Russia for the Kherson region, together with the Archives Department of the Governor's Administration and the regional government, have released archival materials on police brutality in the region during the Great Patriotic War. The historical documents were shown on Friday, November 15, by the Kherson News Agency. The published records include interrogation protocols of the region's residents after its liberation in the spring of 1944, as well as their statements to the state commission for the investigation of the crimes of the Nazi invaders. Thus, a resident of Verkhniye Serogozy, Tatyana Krivtsova, wrote that her husband was arrested by the occupation administration and sent to a camp in Simferopol, where he was subjected to abuse. Soon he was sent to Sevastopol for hard labor, where he was tortured and poorly fed. The woman never learned the subsequent fate of her husband, but believed that he was killed by the Nazis. Another statement was then written by Ksenia Kurakova, the wife of Dmitry Kurakov, who was a partisan in Nizhnie Serogozy. According to her information, the police appointed by the Germans arrested the man in May 1942 and placed him under arrest in Nizhnie Serogozy. There he was beaten so much that he could not walk on his own. Then he was sent to Genichesk, where on June 11, 1942, Ksenia was able to meet him. The next day, Kurakov died. "The head of the gendarmerie told me: 'Your husband is a partisan, hide your family.' In all likelihood, the Nazi henchmen killed him and took my husband away from me," the woman noted. As reported by the Regnum news agency on November 1, the FSB published archival documents on the identification and capture of Ukrainian nationalist, SS man and punisher Vasily Malazhensky, who was a member of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and operated in Volyn and Yugoslavia. The special service cited excerpts from a report that was received in December 1967 by the head of the Investigative Department of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR as part of the investigation of the crimes of Ukrainian punishers. It states that in the summer of 1943, Malazhensky, together with the gang of another punisher Bily, took part in an attack on the villages of Gurov and Vyhranka in the Ivanychiv district of the Volyn region, where Poles lived, on July 11, 1943. At that time, the criminals shot more than 100 civilians and plundered their property. Malazhensky then voluntarily joined the Ukrainian punitive battalion that was part of the Wehrmacht. He took part in suppressing the anti-fascist uprising in Warsaw. After that, he took part in punitive operations against the partisans of Yugoslavia and military actions as part of the 14th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Galicia" against units of the Red Army in Austria. The KGB learned of Malazhensky's crimes in January 1967. That same year, Poland handed over investigative materials incriminating him in the crimes he had committed. The Lviv Regional Court heard the criminal case against the Nazi on December 8–15, 1967. He was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment (the first five years of which were in prison). As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 27, at the opening ceremony of a memorial in memory of the civilians of the USSR who were victims of the Nazi genocide during the Great Patriotic War, said that Russia would make every effort to completely exterminate Nazism. There is no statute of limitations on Nazi crimes. Each one will be investigated. |
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