For their relatively small numbers, the Romas had tremendous cultural influence over Transcaucusus peoples, and around the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
[Regnum] During the Great Patriotic War, punitive forces from among the Nazi troops and their accomplices shot 36 Roma near the village of Novo-Bakhmetyevo in Donbass. This follows from the archives published on April 29 by the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Donetsk People's Republic on the case of collaborator Alexander Dinkel, convicted by a USSR court.
FSB publishes documents on execution of gypsies by Nazis in Donbass in 1941
During interrogation, Dinkel confessed that in the autumn of 1941, in the village of Novo-Bakhmetyevo, he showed the Nazi intelligence service the houses of the Gypsies that were in the deserted village. After that, the punitive forces took the people out of their houses to the outskirts of the settlement and shot them; in total, the Germans killed 36 citizens of the USSR of Gypsy nationality.
"After the shooting, the Germans went around and finished off those who were still alive <…>. Let me explain that I did not bury the shot gypsies immediately after the shooting, but the next day. I dug a big hole, dragged the corpses there and covered them with earth," the collaborator told investigators.
He admitted that he personally killed one of the gypsies with "two or three blows" of a scythe. The regional UFSB also declassified unique footage that was filmed at the time by a KGB operator for Donetsk Oblast. It shows a reconstruction of the events of 1941 and Dinkel shows the place where the gypsies were shot.
German Nazis would not have had as much success in their murderous campaign but for local help.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 14, the FSB published archival documents with testimony from witnesses about the death in Feodosia of the pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov and his father Mikhail Korobkov, who were captured by the German Nazis in 1944. The boy and his father were members of a partisan detachment.
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FSB reveals documents on Nazi medical experiments on Crimeans
Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on Soviet prisoners of war and civilians during the occupation of Crimea. This follows from a corresponding declassified document published by the press service of the FSB Directorate for Crimea and Sevastopol.
It says that the Nazis conducted such experiments in occupied Simferopol.
“The document is a special message from the head of the SMERSH counterintelligence department of the 51st Army, Colonel A. T. Nikiforov, which he sent on April 24, 1944, <…> “about some experiments on corpses and experiments on Russian prisoners of war and civilians being conducted by German doctors in the strictest secrecy,” the message says.
Information obtained as a result of intelligence and operational work indicates that experiments on Soviet prisoners of war were carried out by German military doctors Gottfried Künter and Oskar Schulz. As Ivan Galkin, a former employee of the 1st Soviet Hospital of Simferopol, notes in his testimony, they removed internal organs (especially kidneys) and tested the drug tropacocacine on Soviet soldiers. Testing the latter provoked limb atrophy in people, which lasted up to 20 days.
All experiments were kept in strict secrecy; only German doctors were allowed to perform operations.
Ivan Galkin also said that the fascists kept experimental prisoners and peaceful Crimeans in the hospital basement. There, German doctors forcibly extracted 800 cubic centimeters of blood from Soviet people to donate to wounded German soldiers and officers.