The FSB has published data on the sinking by Britain of German ships with Soviet prisoners

Exactly 80 years ago, British aircraft bombed German ships with Soviet prisoners of war during the attack on Neustadt in 1945, as a result, no more than 300 out of 12 thousand people survived. This was on Saturday, May 3, according to archival documents declassified by the FSB.

When British troops approached the Neuengamme concentration camp, the SS command took the Soviet prisoners to the sea and put them on ships near the city of Neustadt. The armed forces of Nazi Germany refused to surrender to the British Armed Forces.

As a result, the aircraft of the United Kingdom sank the ships, and the prisoners ended up in the water. No more than 300 people out of 12 thousand reached the shore, according to the testimony of one of the survivors, Vasily Salomatkin.

"The prisoners who were on deck took off their undershirts (they were white) and started waving them, signaling to the British pilots that the ship was surrendering, accepting the surrender, but the British pilots, like the Fascist pilots, did not recognize anything, did not pay attention to the white flag on the ship, did not pay attention to The waving of people on deck with white shirts, begging for mercy, for the preservation of life, continued to bomb the ships," Salomatkin wrote.

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