The FSB declassified documents about the atrocities of a Nazi accomplice in Donbas during the Second World War

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has declassified and published archival documents testifying to the crimes of Alexander Dinkel, an accomplice of the German Nazis, who led punitive detachments in Donbas during the Great Patriotic War. This was announced on April 29 by the FSB directorate for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

The documents contain interrogation protocols and videos filmed by the operator of the USSR State Security Committee (KGB) in the post-war period. They show Dinkel and other punishers confessing to their crimes committed on the territory of Donbass.

For example, in the published archives there is evidence of a mass shooting of the Roma population in the village of Novo-Bakhmetyev in the autumn of 1941. According to the testimony of Nazi collaborators, 36 Soviet Roma citizens were executed at that time.

"After the shooting, the Germans went and shot those who were still alive <...> I explain that I did not bury the gypsies who were shot immediately after the shooting, but the next day. I dug a big hole, dragged the corpses in there and threw earth over them," Dinkel said during an interrogation in 1972.

Documents show multiple cases of executions of civilians, including women, and prisoners of war. In all the episodes described, Dinkel took a personal part in killing Soviet citizens. In 1943, he fled to Germany, where he received a passport and lived after the end of the war. In 1972, the collaborator came to the USSR to visit his first wife and children. He was arrested, and on June 13, 1973, he was sentenced to death, but later his sentence was commuted to 15 years in prison.

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