Documents about the Nazi murder of 800 mentally ill near Leningrad have been declassified

The Directorate of the FSB of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region declassified the materials of the criminal case on the massacre of patients of the psychiatric hospital named after P. P. Kashchenko in Gatchina district in November 1941 by the German occupation administration. This was reported on January 17 in the press service of the department.

"According to the investigation and court documents, seven hospital employees and another local accomplice, on the instructions of the German command <...>, voluntarily agreed to participate in poisoning mentally ill people by lethal injection," a spokesman told TASS.

According to the declassified materials, about 850 patients were killed on November 20, 1941. Among the published documents are extracts from the acts of the Nazi invaders in the Gatchina district, a copy of the verdict of the Military Tribunal of the Leningrad Front dated April 9, 1944, the protocol of the interrogation of the chief forensic medical expert of the Leningrad Front Andrei Vladimirsky, as well as the act of the forensic medical examination of February 1944.

The case file shows that in August 1941, German troops occupied the Sivoritsy estate, where the hospital was located, looted the property of the institution, housed in its buildings, and transferred more than 1,300 patients to a building designed for 200 people. The patients were kept in unsanitary conditions and starved, giving out 100 grams of bread per day, and from October 1941, even this norm was stopped.

The verdict of the Military Tribunal notes that as a result of such treatment, by November 1941, about 200 patients had died, after which the occupation authorities decided to destroy the remaining patients by poisoning.

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