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| Nazi actions near Novgorod during WWII demand recognition as genocide |
| 2025-02-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Novgorod Region Prosecutor's Office has filed a lawsuit demanding that the crimes committed by the Nazis in the region during the Great Patriotic War be recognized as genocide of the peoples of the USSR. This was reported on February 27 by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. The lawsuit also calls for the Nazis' actions to be recognized as war crimes and crimes against humanity. "During the Great Patriotic War, punitive battalions formed by the invaders operated in these territories, which massacred civilians and prisoners of war. The Red Army soldiers who were captured were kept in concentration camps in inhumane conditions, subjected to torture and torment," the statement said. During the occupation, more than 202,000 residents of the region died, and more than 166,000 people were taken into slavery. The Nazis almost completely destroyed the cities of Malaya Vishera, Novgorod, Soltsy, Staraya Russa and Chudovo, and destroyed numerous monuments. The total amount of damage in current prices is about 48 trillion rubles, the report says. The prosecutor's office provided the court with numerous pieces of evidence collected with the support of law enforcement officers, scientists and volunteers. “The application was filed with the Novgorod Regional Court in order to protect the national interests of the Russian Federation, the legal rights and interests of the relatives of the deceased, as well as the subsequent dissemination to the world community of information about the victims of the invaders during the Great Patriotic War, the restoration of historical justice,” the press service added. As reported by the Regnum news agency, similar lawsuits were previously filed in courts by prosecutors in a number of other regions of Russia. In particular, the prosecutor's office of North Ossetia in its lawsuit, filed earlier in February, noted that more than 2.3 thousand people fell victim to Nazi crimes in the region, and more than 1.6 thousand people were forcibly deported to Germany. The Murmansk Region Prosecutor's Office filed a similar claim with the court on February 7. During the Great Patriotic War, the region was partially occupied by Wehrmacht troops. As a result of massive bombing, over 1,500 houses were destroyed. The total number of Nazi victims in the Murmansk Region was over 15,000 people. |
| Posted by:badanov |
#1 Meanwhile, in Russia:
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| Posted by: badanov 2025-02-28 06:38 |