FSB declassifies archive on crimes of Nazis convicted in 1947

The Russian Federal Security Service Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol declassified archive documents testifying to the investigation of crimes committed by Nazi occupiers, who were convicted in November 1947 during the "Sevastopol Trial". The document was made public within the framework of the All-Russian project "Without Statute of Limitations" to immortalize the memory of the victims of genocide of civilians during the Great Patriotic War.

The archival materials supplement the previously published documents. They reveal details of the investigation of crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against civilians and prisoners of war.

The department has published records of interrogations of the accused and witnesses, confrontations and court hearings, resolutions, verdicts and other documents of investigative and judicial bodies, which prove the inhuman policy of genocide conducted by the German-Romanian invaders on the Crimean peninsula.

The materials relate to the events from the moment of arrest of the commander of the 17th Army of the Wehrmacht, Colonel-General Erwin Gustav Jenecke on the territory of Germany liberated from Nazism in 1945, where he was hiding under the alias of retired Stabszalmeister Anton Gerdes, until the conviction of the Nazi criminal and his subordinates in 1947.

In addition, among the declassified documents there are previously unknown pages of archival files regarding the crimes of the German general's accomplices: Willert Otto, Alberti Helmut, Schreve Ernst, Kaibel Paul, Gan Adam, interviews with witnesses to the crimes and the convicted Nazis themselves.

The publicized materials testify to the painstaking work of security, internal affairs and prosecutors' offices to investigate the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices in the Crimean Peninsula, the Kuban and the Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War.

The work of the Federal Security Service of Russia on publicizing the facts of genocide and preservation of historical memory will be continued, the agency said.

Earlier, on October 27, it was reported that the Federal Security Service of Russia declassified an archive document, which testifies to the special unit No. 731 ("part of Kamo"), created in the late 1930s in Japanese-occupied Manchuria for experiments in microbiology, including bacteriological experiments on humans, preparing for bacteriological war with the Soviet Union.