FSB showed documents about German Nazi crimes in Crimea

By CrimeaNEWS On Май 8, 2024

CrimeaPRESS reports:

About 60 thousand Soviet citizens, mostly prisoners of war, were taken by the Nazis from Crimea after the Red Army broke through German fortifications on Perekop in the spring of 1944. This follows from the testimony of Wehrmacht Colonel General Erwin Jenecke, contained in archival materials declassified by the FSB, which I have read TASS.

The FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as part of the “Without Statute of Limitations” project, declassified archival documents about the Great Patriotic War, which include certificates, intelligence data and interrogation reports of German criminals. Among them is Jenecke, who commanded the Wehrmacht troops in the Crimea and the Caucasus.

After the Russians broke through the German fortifications at Perekop on April 9, 1943, all Russian prisoners of war, prisoners from prison and Turkish battalions created from Russian prisoners of war were urgently taken to Constanta (Romania — TASS note). In addition, part of the civilian population who agreed to go there voluntarily was taken out. As far as I remember, about 60 thousand people were taken to Constanta, mainly Crimean work teams formed from prisoners of war“, said Jenecke in his testimony, who was arrested by Soviet troops in June 1945 in Niederschön, Germany and was in Sevastopol prison during the investigation and trial.

The Germans also exported museum valuables, herds of valuable astrakhan sheep, and cotton and tobacco crops from Crimea.

The Colonel General also spoke about the struggle of the German command against the Crimean partisans.

In the old quarries near Kerch there have been groups of partisans and civilians for a long time. To destroy them in winter, on the initiative of the General Staff, a special sapper team arrived at my disposal. <…> At first, military units tried to penetrate the caves and undermine the entrances and exits from the caves, but this attempt did not give the expected success. Then it was decided to release an explosive gas into the caves, which at the same time acts as a poisonous substance in order to kill all the people there. Since it was not possible to achieve the gas concentration necessary for an explosion, this event was not successfulsaid Yeneke.

According to him, later the caves were completely blocked, and the people in them were left without food or drink. As a result, about 350 people came to the Germans, 40 of whom were shot.

I don’t know what happened to the rest of the captured people.“Oh,” said the Colonel General of the Wehrmacht.

source: TASS