Brutal executions of children: how the Nazis tried to destroy the future of Russia
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MOSCOW, June 1 - RIA Novosti. During the war years in the occupied territories of the USSR, the Nazis killed hundreds of thousands of Soviet children. The study of regional archives allows us to clarify the scale and circumstances of those crimes. On International Children's Day, RIA Novosti publishes an interview with Elena Malysheva, the dean of the archival department of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University , a member of the working group of the No Statute of Limitations project, about what historians have learned about the atrocities of the fascists.
How many children died at the hands of the invaders is still unknown.
"The scientific literature says that more than 216 thousand children were deliberately destroyed in the course of punitive operations on the territory of the USSR . Grigory Krivosheev cites this figure in his research on losses during the Great Patriotic War. In fact, the number of deaths is much higher," Malysheva notes.
According to her, the study of regional archives within the framework of the No Statute of Limitations project will help to correct the available data, to establish the circumstances of the crimes.
“For example, in the Bryansk State Archives they found a certificate stating that 4665 children died during the occupation of the Bryansk region in 1941-1943. This is three and a half times more than what was previously reported in scientific research. not even in this certificate - there is a dash in front of them ", - gives the example of Malyshev.
Orphanage Executions and Disease Deaths
One of the monstrous crimes of the invaders is the destruction of the pupils of the Anoshensky orphanage in the Vyazemsky district of the Smolensk region .
"From October 4, 1941 to March 10, 1943, 113 people were shot, tortured, starved to death by the Nazi invaders and their accomplices in the Anoshensky orphanage <...>," the archival document says. Moreover, in 1942, 42 children died of hunger.
The testimony of the pediatrician Baranenko, recorded by him in 1943 after the liberation of Smolensk by the Red Army , also testifies to the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis against children .
According to him, if a laborer received 350 grams of bread per day from the invaders, and dependents - 200, then the children were supposed to only 70 grams. "Emaciated children with diseases died in 60% of cases," the doctor said.
They especially suffered from infectious diseases, Baranenko recalled, in particular from diphtheria, while the doctors practically did not have diphtheria serum. Many children, especially those under the age of three, died from gastrointestinal diseases.
Children's blood for the invaders
The fact that the Nazis took blood from children was reported by the Soviet Information Bureau in a report dated September 24, 1942. In the village of Zakharovka, Kursk Region, the German commandant, with the help of soldiers, drove local residents into the courtyard.
“German doctors selected 26 people, including Solntsev Peter - 14 years old, Grachev Vera - 11 years old, Dvornikov Ekaterina - nine years old and others, and took large doses of blood from them, regardless of any medical standards. nine people, including five teenagers, "- noted in the summary.
Punishments for "crimes"
In the Kursk region, the occupation authorities issued an order according to which children between the ages of ten and 16 were sent to forced educational camps "for their crimes".
The archives also tell about what "crimes" were discussed.
Thus, in the village of Pogozhee, Timsky District, Kursk Region, minors "were brutally beaten and flogged with ramrods because they did not want to work for the invaders." And in the Novo-Oskol region, the Nazis shot the family of a collective farmer of six people, including four children, "for the fact that one of the boys released a pigeon during a Soviet air raid."
Gouged eyes and severed ears
The Nazis killed children with sophisticated brutality. In January 1942, retreating under the blows of the Red Army from the settlement of Kresty, Velizhsky district of the Smolensk region, the occupants tortured the Danilov family: 40-year-old mother Anna and her daughters - 16-year-old Lydia, 12-year-old Sofia, 5-year-old Valentina and 2-year-old Varvara.
Near the village of Ilyino, Baturinsky District, Smolensk Region, in November 1942, more than 100 civilians were shot - women, children and the elderly. The Nazis hid the bodies under the snow.
“When the snow was dug up and the brushwood and hay were removed, we were faced with a terrible picture of the crime, <...> 109 torn corpses were randomly piled on top of each other, explosive bullets disfigured faces, crushed the heads of innocent victims of fascist murderers. Among the shot were women, teenagers, two an old man of 60-65 years old, 17 children aged from five to ten years, six infants, including a two-month-old girl with a smashed head, "the Soviet commission later wrote.
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