FSB declassified documents about Nazi crimes in Mariupol during WWII

The Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), on Tuesday, May 20, on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Mariupol from Ukrainian militants, declassified documents on the crimes of the German Nazis in the city during the Great Patriotic War (WWII).

"The Nazis completely burned down 1,593 houses, destroyed 46 schools, 101 libraries, and completely destroyed all medical and cultural institutions in the city. The Mariupol plant was plundered and almost completely destroyed. Ilyich and the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant," the FSB of Russia clarified.

It is noted that during the occupation, Nazi Germany brutally dealt with civilians and prisoners of war, soldiers of the Red Army. According to the FSB, in February 1943, the Nazi invaders locked sick and wounded Soviet soldiers in 18 freight wagons, and then froze them in the Old Crimean dead end. In order to exclude possible assistance to the fighters from the population, the Germans painted a skull on the wagons and wrote: "It's an infection not to approach."

Documentary statement: what the previously unknown facts of the history of the Second World War say

Among the declassified archival materials are data on Hitler's Germany's preparations for war, unique campaign maps and evidence of Nazi atrocities.

On May 6, the FSB of Russia declassified documents according to which, during the Second World War, the USSR state security agencies recorded 54,000 facts of Nazi crimes with indisputable evidence of their crimes against the country's population. According to the FSB, more than 250,000 victims were interviewed in total.

The ministry clarified that Russian counterintelligence officers are currently continuing to establish and document the facts of Nazi atrocities against civilians. The FSB stressed that the perpetrators would be tracked down and brought to justice.