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| FSB releases documents on Nazi crimes at Donbass mine |
| 2024-09-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The special services of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), as part of the "No Statute of Limitations" project, declassified documents from the KGB archive about the atrocities of German soldiers at the Stalino mine during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported on September 7 by the FSB Directorate of Russia for the republic. The documents were handed over to the Donetsk Museum of the Great Patriotic War on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Donbass from the Nazi invaders. The acts contain information about the victims of the German occupiers at the 4-4-bis mine in Stalino. "During the German occupation, the fascist invaders, from December 1941 to September 1943, exterminated Soviet citizens by shooting and in gas chambers. Moreover, a mine shaft was chosen as the place to hide the corpses," the documents state. The first act listed the bodies and remains that had been discovered. Some showed signs of serious mutilation and bullet wounds. From a depth of 65 m, 61 male bodies, 23 female bodies, and seven children aged 10 to 18 were raised. It was specified that a total of 112 bodies had been recovered. Due to the absence of some body parts, some could not be identified. The second act announced the creation of a special commission to investigate the circumstances of the destruction of Soviet citizens in the mine. It also provided forensic medical examination data on the methods used by German soldiers to kill civilians. The FSB Directorate for the DPR noted that archival materials will be used to recognize the genocide of the people of Donbass by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 8, the DPR special services released documents from the archives of the State Security Committee, which testify to the mass genocide of Donbass residents during the Great Patriotic War. According to the declassified documents, the number of victims of the genocide of Donbass residents amounts to several thousand people, mainly women and children. The names of accomplices of the fascists, traitors who voluntarily went over to the side of the Germans for their own benefit, also became known. |
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