Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Discloses Nazi German Archives on Brutal Killing of Soviet Prisoners of War
June 20, Rossiya news agency reported that the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has disclosed newly declassified archive documents, exposing the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany against Soviet prisoners of war at the early stage of World War II - brutal acts such as cutting off arms, slicing ears, and gouging out eyes.
The documents show that on August 17, 1941, at the Gregorovo railway station on the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog line, the German army tortured to death 135 Soviet wounded soldiers and commanders: "They first cut off their arms, sliced off their ears, gouged out their eyes, and then executed them." In another case, a major who refused to disclose information about the Red Army was mutilated by the German army - his nose was cut off, his eyes were gouged out, and symbols were carved all over his back before he was killed. Throughout the ordeal, he did not utter a single word.
The special departments of the Russian security service collected evidence through soldiers who broke through or escaped from prisoner-of-war camps during the early stages of the war. These materials became important evidence for hunting down Nazi war criminals after the war. June 22 is the 84th anniversary of the outbreak of the Patriotic War. The media in Russia said that the disclosure of such archives aims to "remember the atrocities of fascism."
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