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The War Crimes Bureau had five major sources of information: (1) captured enemy papers, especially orders, reports of operations, and propaganda leaflets; (2) intercepted radio and wireless messages; (3) testimony of Soviet prisoners of war; (4) testimony of captured Germans who had escaped; and (5) testimony of Germans who saw the corpses or ...
Lutsk massacre (Łuck in pre-war Poland): After the prison was hit by German bombs, Soviet authorities promised amnesty to all political prisoners to prevent escapes. As they lined up outside they were machine-gunned by Soviet tanks. They were told: "Those still alive get up."
In 2004, Vassili Kononov, a Soviet partisan during World War II, was convicted by Supreme Court of Latvia as a war criminal for killing three women, one of whom was pregnant. [241] [242] He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity. [243] The sentence was condemned by various high-ranking Russian officials. [244]
The 2nd Battalion, 25th Guards Tank Brigade, belonging to the 2nd Guards Tank Corps of the 11th Guards Army, crossed the Angerapp bridge and established a bridgehead on the western bank of the Rominte river on 21 October 1944. The German forces tried to retake the bridge, but several attacks were repelled by the Soviet tanks and the supporting ...
Soviet civilians were shot and burned alive by the German Army. [77] [78] Krasukha massacre: 1943, November 27 Krasukha, Pskov Oblast: 280 Soviet civilians were burned alive by the German Army [79] Khaibakh massacre: 1944, February 27 Chechnya, Soviet Union 230–700 [80] [81] During the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples. Siberian ...
Men ordinarily subject to penal military unit service included: Those convicted of desertion or cowardice under Order No. 227. While cowardice under fire was sometimes punished with instant execution, soldiers or officers in rear areas suspected of having a "reluctance to fight" could (and frequently were) summarily stripped of rank and reassigned to a shtrafbat under Order 227.
World War II Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin ( Russian : Васи́лий Миха́йлович Блохи́н ; 19 January [ O.S. 7 January] 1895 – 3 February 1955) was a Soviet secret police official who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD under the administrations of Genrikh Yagoda , Nikolay Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria .
Also, the Soviet mass graves may be related to population transfer in the Soviet Union, Soviet anti-religious legislation, and others. At all times they were directed and carried out by the Soviet secret police under its changing titles: the Cheka during the Civil War, the OGPU during forced collectivisation of agriculture, and the NKVD during ...