The FSB has published documents on the murder of prisoners by the Nazis using poison during the Second World War

During the Great Patriotic War (WWII), the leadership of the concentration camps operating under the leadership of retired Lieutenant General of the German Army Kurt von Osterreich pursued a policy of destroying "non-viable" Soviet prisoners of war by poisoning them with injections of poison. The relevant archival documents were published on April 19 by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation.

"This issue was raised at a meeting of the heads of departments of prisoners of war, held in the spring of 1942 in Berlin, and a representative of the OKW (OKW, the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht. — Ed.) - the headquarters of the Main Command of the German Armed Forces, Major General [Hans] von Grevenitz, gave us instructions to destroy "non—viable" prisoners of war by injecting poison," Osterreich said during interrogation on October 25, 1945.

Upon his return from Germany, Osterreich gathered the camp commandants and conveyed the relevant order to them. He noted that he allowed them to choose the prisoners themselves, who were to be killed in this way. During the period of Osterreich's activity in Ukraine, he controlled up to 30 transit and stationary camps.

"I was only informed of the total number of "liquidated". Thus, in the camp in the area of St. [Anthia] 30-40 people were poisoned with Chir, and in 125 Dulags in Millerovo, 300 prisoners were shot as "not viable" in eight days, Osterreich testified.

On April 11, the FSB of Russia also declassified documents about the murder of more than 8,000 prisoners of the German Travniki concentration camp in Poland during the Great Patriotic War. In March 1942, up to 400 Jews were brought to the camp in one day. In the morning, when they opened the building where they were herded, everyone was killed. The arrested were gassed. On the same day, the FSB of Russia published declassified archival documents about engineers who designed crematoriums and gas chambers for concentration camps in Nazi Germany.