The FSB declassified documents on the search for Nazi criminals during the Second World War

During the Second World War, the USSR state security agencies recorded 54,000 facts of Nazi crimes. The relevant archival documents were published on May 6 by the Federal Security Service (FSB) for the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

"Russian counterintelligence has reliable information about Nazi criminals and their accomplices who committed crimes during the Second World War that have no statute of limitations. The relevant information will be made public as it is declassified," the agency's website says.

It is specified that the work on identifying those responsible for actions against Soviet citizens and documenting the crimes they committed began by the state security agencies in the first year of the Great Patriotic War after the liberation of the first occupied districts of the Moscow region. According to the FSB, more than 250,000 victims were interviewed, and 54,000 Nazi crimes were documented with indisputable evidence of their crimes against the population of the USSR.

Russian counterintelligence officers are currently continuing to establish and document the facts of Nazi atrocities against civilians. The perpetrators of crimes against the Russian civilian population will be tracked down and brought to justice, guided by the principle of the inevitability of punishment, the ministry said.

The Central Archive of the FSB of the Russian Federation has preserved materials reflecting the results of the work of the Soviet state security agencies in the search for Nazi criminals and their accomplices, which have already been declassified and will soon be published on the agency's website.

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