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Nazi atrocities in Murmansk region demand recognition as genocide
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] The Murmansk Region Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit to establish the fact of genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on February 7 by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. "On the instructions of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor of the Murmansk Region has submitted to the court a statement on recognizing as war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide of the Soviet people the established and newly identified crimes committed by the Nazi invaders and their accomplices on the territory of the Murmansk Region during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945," the department reported. During the Great Patriotic War, the territory of the Murmansk region was partially occupied by Wehrmacht troops. As a result of massive bombings, more than 1,500 houses were destroyed in the region. Red Army soldiers captured by the Nazis were kept in camps in inhumane conditions and forced to do grueling work. The Red Army soldiers died from exhaustion and cold. The total number of Nazi victims in the Murmansk region exceeds 15,000 people. The amount of damage caused to the region is 1.3 trillion rubles, converted to the current ruble exchange rate. The prosecutor's office sent a statement on establishing the fact of genocide in the region to the Murmansk Regional Court in order to protect Russia's national interests, the legal rights and interests of the relatives of the dead, and to subsequently disseminate information about the victims of the punitive forces during the Great Patriotic War to the world community. This is necessary to restore historical justice, the department emphasized. As reported by the Regnum news agency, at the end of January the Federal Security Service published declassified archived interrogation reports of the Pole Jozef Pechka, who worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He said that he regularly beat concentration camp prisoners with a stick. His group sent 100 to 500 bodies of prisoners to cremation every night. The Pole said that the SS men and guards brutally abused the prisoners, exhausted them with backbreaking work, and beat them to death. Posted by: badanov 2025-02-08 |
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