The FSB declassified documents about the experiments of Nazi doctors on the USSR military

The Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation has released documents on the experiments of Nazi doctors on Soviet prisoners and civilians in Crimea. This was reported on April 29 in the press service of the FSB directorate for the region.

"A document dedicated to the medical experiments of Nazi doctors on Soviet prisoners of war and civilians in occupied Simferopol has been declassified. 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," the statement said.

According to the press service, German doctors Gottfried Kunter and Oskar Schultz were engaged in medical experiments on prisoners of war of the USSR. The experiments usually consisted of the removal of internal organs and testing for the effects of the toxic drug tropacocaine. It could lead to limb atrophy, which lasted up to 20 days.

The subjects were kept in the basement in strict secrecy. They were taken to the autopsy room during the day, but the Russian staff was isolated. Attempts to take information outside the institution were strictly suppressed. For example, the Nazis arrested and shot an employee of the Starun autopsy and his son Igor, who found the prisoner's note.

What was happening was revealed during the operational work thanks to the testimony of Ivan Semenovich Galkin, a former employee of the autopsy department of the 1st Soviet Hospital in Simferopol. He said that 35 Soviet prisoners were in the hospital, from whom "up to 800 cubic cm of blood was taken at the same time without their consent." Subsequently, it was used for transfusion to the Germans.

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Earlier, on April 22, the FSB published declassified archival documents telling about the numerous atrocities the Nazis carried out on prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In particular, the Germans killed people in gas chambers, mixed poison into prisoners' food or injected it with injections.