The FSB has released documents on Nazi atrocities in the Leningrad region during the occupation

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has declassified more than ten documents of the NKVD of the USSR on nazi atrocities in the Leningrad and Novgorod regions in 1941-42. This was reported on June 22 in the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

"The reports and acts contain information about numerous cases of murders, robberies of residents of occupied places, the burning of a large number of villages and villages, the forced removal of the population from their homes, the facts of brutal and bullying of people, their detention in concentration camps," the press service of the department quoted the Telegram channel of the TV channel. 78.ru .

The documents contain facts of murders, robberies, harassment of civilians and robberies. So, at the end of November 1941, in Krasnoarmeysk (the modern name of Gatchina. The Nazis organized a camp for prisoners of war and civilians, which housed up to 1.5 thousand people.

It also became known from the published documents that the body of a tortured and raped 15-year-old girl was found in one of the cells of the Tikhvin Monastery, which the Nazi invaders occupied during the occupation.

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In declassified archival documents of the FSB of Russia from the collection "Nazism. Documentary evidence of crimes", which was presented in Moscow on June 19, states that during the Great Patriotic War, the German Nazis committed mass murders of civilians, including children and infants, in Starobilsk, Voroshilovgrad region (now Luhansk People's Republic). The materials contain information about mass graves on the territory of the Starobilsk airfield, where, according to the documents, the bodies of civilians, including women and children, were found.