FSB releases testimony of Wehrmacht executioner Feuerbach who hanged 120 people
New evidence of Nazi crimes during World War II has been released by the Public Relations Center (PRC) of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Thus, on January 16, the testimony of Wehrmacht executioner Martin Feuerbach was published.
In August 1935, Feuerbach joined a regiment of storm troopers in Vienna, at that time the Austrian National Socialist Party was operating illegally in the country. In 1937 he was sentenced to seven years in prison for organizing a meeting of Austrian Nazis in his shoemaker's shop, but he was released from prison as early as March 1938, after Austria was incorporated into Germany, and continued to serve in the storm troop of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
He was captured by the Soviets in March 1944 during the fighting for the liberation of Kerch. At the interrogation in the intelligence department of the seaside army headquarters, Feuerbach tried to pass himself off as a member of the Austrian Communist Party repressed by the German authorities, but his captured fellow soldiers told other information about him.
During interrogations, it turned out that the military man personally hanged 120 people, beheaded 80 people, executed 10 of them by cutting off limbs, and nailed two of them by their hands and feet.
"At home I have a pocket calendar where I used to write down the number of people I executed. These records I used to reread every evening, whether in the company or at home. Thanks to this I was able to memorize most of the numbers," the executioner said.
The investigation established Feuerbach's involvement in crimes in Austria, where he killed anti-fascists, in Poland, Yugoslavia and the USSR.
"In 1939, the most characteristic cases were: the case that took place in July in Brader, where up to 200 communists were executed in total, of whom people 20 were not executed at once, but first the right hand was cut off, then the left hand, then the left hand, the left leg, the right leg and finally the head. <...> I personally cut off the limbs of seven Communists," the document cites a fragment of a Wehrmacht military interrogation report.
Earlier, on December 10 last year, the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) declassified documents with evidence of massacres of civilians by the Nazis on the territory of Donbass in the period from 1941 to 1943. At that time, the occupiers established punitive bodies on the territory of Donbas, which were engaged in the extermination of communists, Soviet activists, partisans and civilians.
