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| FSB publishes archival testimony of Wehrmacht executioner Feuerbach |
| 2025-01-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Archival documents about the Nazi executioner from Austria Martin Feuerbach, who took part in the executions of people during World War II, were declassified by the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. The materials indicate that the Soviet military counterintelligence service SMERSH searched for Nazi war criminals and their accomplices, including prisoners, during the Great Patriotic War. In March 1944, Staff Corporal Martin Feuerbach, who participated in executions in Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia and the USSR, was captured in Kerch. During interrogations, he confessed that he personally hanged 120 people, beheaded 80, cut off the limbs of a dozen people, and nailed at least two people by the arms and legs. Before the executions, he was given extra cigarettes, and after the atrocities, he was given vodka, rum, and meat dishes. According to the executioner, he had a pocket calendar at home, where he wrote down the number of people he executed. Feuerbach reread these records every evening, thanks to which he was able to remember most of the numbers. Feuerbach was born in 1915 in Würzburg. He joined the Austrian National Socialist Party and was sentenced to seven years in prison for organizing an illegal Nazi meeting. After Austria was incorporated into Germany, he served in the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In the army, Feuerbach formed "mobile units" to fight partisans. In 1941 and 1943, he also participated in reprisals against Austrian anti-fascists. As reported by the Regnum news agency, in August 2024, the German Defense Ministry added Wehrmacht officers who were members of the NSDAP and the paramilitary wing of the SS to the list dedicated to Germany's military tradition, confirmed the official representative of the department, Arne Kollatz. According to him, in Germany, along with the participants in the resistance to the Nazi regime, the memory of some members of the Wehrmacht who, after the fall of the Third Reich, helped create a new German army and openly distanced themselves from their past will be honored. The world community must respond to the German Bundeswehr's inclusion of former Nazis in the list of those who should serve as an example of military superiority, urged Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that there is no sympathy for Nazis in Russia and there never will be. The newest Ukrainian neo-Nazis resemble their own ideological ancestors who collaborated with Hitler during the Great Patriotic War, the head of state noted. |
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