january 1944 soviet troops occupy the village of zhestyanaya gorka. or rather, what was left of it in a few days, an emergency state commission for establishing and investigating the atrocities of the nazi invaders begins to investigate the massacres, fucking past eyewitnesses, and certainly investigators. uh, squeezed into place. e, we talked with the villagers, recorded their testimony, showed photographs of the defendants, and trying to determine who recognizes whom in these materials from december forty fourth year. we find two inspection reports, a, which document, let's say, places, supposed and, uh, the estimated number of their civilians. the only thing. what is the problem, that in the urgent year, and given the burial grounds and places, they were not hidden and not looked around, that is, the

place was documented. its area and the estimated number, and the victims, again from the words of eyewitnesses at the headquarters of the thirty-eighth army corps of the wehrmacht in novgorod, the red army find reports of the talkommando 1c and the insatz group, and those stationed in the tin gorka in this terrible bookkeeping did not indicate the names of the executed civilians. but it becomes clear the bodies of thousands of people rest in the graves outside the village. they wrote a report on each execution, and it was directly indicated there, and such and such a person was shot on such and such a date by such and such and stood under the signature, the search for the murderer of the tin, slides began at forty. the fifth was interrogated, the germans who surrendered were soon known the names of the main suspects, the first number was general kurt duke. he surrendered to the soviet troops on may 8, 1945 in kursk, an expert from leningrad, professor colonel of medicine, arrives in his father's district.

he had to appreciate the services of vladimirsky. how many civilian lives destroyed? here, the nazi death envelope on november 15 and 16, 1947, members of a special commission are opening the execution pits, vladimirsky could not accurately establish it on the extrapolated data of mm of what he was able to raise, while it seemed to him that this was the general burial place and according to him approximately calculations. this is about 3,700 victims near the village of tin hill near the village of blacks from umats. there were some rough squares. some approximate definition of the total number of victims. well, then we multiply by the estimated size of the firing squad and get a certain, average figure, the dry language of the protocol. inspection of tanks paints a monstrous picture of the back of the skulls. women and children

were found to have bullet wounds. the diameter of the entrance bullet holes is typical for german weapons. there are also traces of damage by blunt objects. by apparently, the butts of carbines on a large number of bodies found damage, bones, chopping and stabbing objects with cleavers or bayonets of rifles. but if you and i open the material, this is especially expertise. well, actually, we’ll see that someone was shot in the head, someone was killed with a butt, and someone just obviously didn’t find traces of mm murder, so we can assume that they just buried them alive, in addition, uh, then there is something on the bones uh, there is uh, with an accident, limbs are also missing sometimes etc. in general, and the women's slide was a place there not only for execution, but also for questions, uh, there,

just this undesirable element. e was brought for the convenience of obtaining information, and after this information was received in the course, or was not received already. i am such an undesirable element in quotation marks, but they introduced it, they were shot closer to the forest in december 1947. the trial of the nazis guilty of the massacres of prisoners of war and civilians in the dock begins with the hydropolit, the head of the occupation zone novgorod region, the commander of the 6th infantry division of the wehrmacht, general kurt hertz, and 18 of his subordinates, six accused winter doppler mun mol and hubb, have fully admitted their guilt, the former commander of the 402nd gendarmerie platoon. willy mole said, for example, that in 4 days the punishers completely burned about 12 settlements and

shot hundreds of people. 12 defendants pleaded partially guilty, saying that they killed people on orders, and only kurt duke did not admit his guilt on more than one count. general kurt duke was accused of organizing the plunder of veliky novgorod destruction of historical values. and most importantly, in organizing the executions of 3,700 soviet citizens. in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe villages of tin hill and black in the father's district, there are facts about the atrocities of duke kurt. and his immediate subordinates barely fit in 54 volumes of the criminal case; the trial of nazi criminals was open and lidia abrosimova from the village managed to visit it. kolmovo had no room on the balcony. peoples. there were a lot of people was completely. they came and they

stood no places were heard 36 witnesses. of these, five were former prisoners of war , the rest were civilians, novgorod, pskov and leningrad regions, there was chelek for 20 or 30. so you know, i didn’t really try to remember such things; it’s very difficult to remember. although this i remember this, there the chief does not sleep, from this, but the atrocities of general kurt duke. the former senior judge of the military field court at the headquarters of the thirty-eighth corps of the wehrmacht told the hole kurt duke, and asked to be called from the camp. e your former subordinate. eh? yanka i hope that he will take the blame, that is, he will say that it was he who signed the orders and the prisoner of war

yanka was strongly brought from the camp, who, naturally, did not take the blame , said that he saw with his own eyes the signatures of general kurt duke. he is the culprit, then the twelve-year-old witness tolya petrov spoke at the trial and told the court. as he miraculously got out of the execution pit, he advanced on the court with a story about how his house and his family were destroyed. this is his brother pavlushu. uh, junior brother, just killed too. ah, the whole village is in a big crack. so they moved to another village to another village, unfortunately, as always. everyone was shot, and the berries fell among the parents. i stayed alive, they are the only ones, how the woman will be and the brother was shot, so i’m ready to stay alive and

in such belyaevo i told how the punishers killed five of her children, and how she walked around the village in the hope that at least someone survived and called for a long time them by name? the culmination of the process was the challenge. as a witness to the collective farmer artemiev, giving testimony in the courtroom, he identified his tormentor, he lost an eye, because the field went through his eye, he was first tortured, but beaten. uh, they tortured him with sticks, trying to achieve some kind of average professional, although he was not connected with the partisans, and then he, but just pits and uh, shot in the head and then managed to release them somehow at night. and the haba looked at his victim, the

victim looked at his executioner. here is artemy of their abb on the same day, the forensic expert vladimirsky gave his opinion after his the performance in the hall was filled with deathly silence. berries. the man says, i and that, i could not carry this and says, apparently, they tortured me. even you had teeth, you would have pulled it out, let's say pulled it out. it says it's terrible what happened there. this is also not remembered well. i even remember that, yes, for all these years, as many of them in the hall, then they paid attention to the cynical relationship, the defendants to the victims of their crimes, yogan kairat e considered stuckah the number of those killed and mu- and the inhabitants it was not a reservation or

incorrect translation from german, because right on the document you can see that when they ask him for a thing, he repeats a thing. well, that is, it's just like a report column, that is, only this thing was shot today on december 18, 1947. court. he sentenced all the accused to capital punishment of 25 years in the camps, while the period of detention during the investigation was such a period when a-a from uh 40, uh of the seventh year, just uh, that is, in 1950 year and part after the war of ships. she fell just for this period. uh, therefore, in the lives of many e war criminals. both from romania and from hungary, as well as from germany , they were saved, that is, they ended up in the camp. uh, they're made specifically for them. it was all vorkut varnish . satisfied than that they have so much bitterness

of suffering so many children. how many died, it's already worth seeing, you need to see how they scoffed, what kind of a thing it is, and then i saved it in life, and our russians. these monsters were killed , at least not people, it was necessary to shoot them at all or something, and i, and then khrushchev let them out. well i don’t understand some kind of idiotson, the former head of the novgorod occupation zone kurt duke died in a camp near vorkuta on may 8, 1948. all the rest will spend no more than 8 years in the camps after stalin's death, all the survivors will be repatriated to germany . uh, warming, improved relations with the frg and, uh, many uh, people who had russians

up to their elbows in blood. uh, could uh, avoid a decent punishment were returned to their homeland germany, or rather, uh, lived a beautiful life, that is, they did not even serve, uh, their appointed term. this is a thing that is actually very poorly realized. even those criminals who ended up in the soviet e-zone of jurisdiction, who even were, but exposed and brought to trial. even they got it. well, actually, uh, completely inadequate, uh, punishment for the crime he committed. e. their victims were forgotten forgotten

for a very long, but very long time, in fact, their names are known to us only now, however, the main punishers of the tin, slides managed to avoid the bench, the defendants, those very cutthroats and the golden thai team 1c, did not remain free. you were the next one we judge, we judge. uh fascism german fascist. yes, uh, many of them sitting in the dock gave the order. yes, the victims of these orders in the end turned out to be a tin slide, but from the direct executors. uh, no one was sitting in the dock, especially since it didn’t sound, uh, the term collaborationism didn’t even sound traitor accomplice. e. it seemed that they were to blame for everything. they are only germans. the fate of high-ranking officers of the ain zatz-group karl

abram and herbert burgdorf will partly become clear only in 2019 in the central department for the investigation of crimes of national socialism in german ludwigg will confirm that karl abram and herbert burgertz played an important role in the actions of punishers. according to a document declassified by the germans, burdorf, who led one of the units of the einsatzgruppe, a was killed on may 10, 1945 by the austrian karl abram after a tin slide served in the auschwitz concentration camp auschwitz but after the liberation of the camp by the soviet troops disappeared further traces. its lost in 1967 after 20 years. after the trial of 19 german soldiers, a new investigation into the terrible events in the tin slide begins. new wave investigation of the sixties . she was different. uh, a qualitatively new level of investigation, and there they conducted ballistic

examinations of witnesses with new testimony. they are further. ah, since they already raised new questions about what a, you know that there could also be a here are whiskey nationalists, and hmm, people have already remembered. investigators raise archival documents, interrogate witnesses, as a result, a picture emerges that they didn’t notice, or maybe they didn’t want to notice at the trial of the forty- seventh year. it turned out that not only german commanders, but also natives of latvia, took part in the massacres, that not only the nazis were punishers in the tin hill, but there were also latvians . clear. in fact, almost immediately after the liberation of this settlement it was clear to the soviet army that here a was killed not only by the germans, not only by the nazis, that their accomplices were killed here during the investigation in the

sixties, and this fact was reliably documented by the investigator, they managed to form, uh , the lists of the members of the talc of the sd team find their data, including according to archival documents, german archival documents, a list of participants in the talk command, and showed that a significant number of punishers. a-a came from the latvian ussr and were latvians by nationality. their bloody way through the novgorod land, the latvian the punishers will begin in the winter of forty-one to forty- two almost immediately after the uh invasion of

nazi germany into the soviet union, uh from the latvians who went to the service of the nazis, uh auxiliary police units began to form. they were used in belarus for punitive operations against the partisans supporting the population to exterminate the jews. they were used on the territory of russia, for example, in the leningrad region, somewhere they were also used for punitive operations, the next two years will pass in continuous atrocities. sometimes even among the germans. for sd team hoist native cadres were, uh, exactly those people who carried out the dirtiest, uh, disgusting work, but direct executions directly murders without uh the help

of local traitors without the help of local collaborators, and large-scale short operations with destruction were not possible e tens and hundreds of villages, and the holocaust of the mass extermination of jews would not have been possible. the nazis simply would not have had the strength to do this in the 1967 case of the crimes of latvian punishers in a tin gorka was not made public. the soviet leadership interrupted the friendship of the peoples of the ussr for the same reason, it was hushed up that the belarusian village of khatyn was actually destroyed by traitors from ukraine. this case was put into the archive, but it was given. you understand, not because the criminals were identified, let's say, or the case was initiated, the case was not initiated. it was delivered from a point of view. e impossibility, probably, at that time it was

not enough to bring these persons to criminal responsibility. let's say. so, probably still the political will of a certain monstrous crimes of the latvian punishers became public eye only in may 2019, when a new mass grave was discovered under a tin slide. now we also know the names of the vile murderers who killed thousands of soviet citizens in the novgorod region. this list was compiled in 1967. perhaps one of these monsters is still alive. alphonse at drovsky was born in 1918. in latvia, since childhood, she has been in the ranks of paramilitary organizations. youth mazbuke in russian is translated as small regiments, respectively, being a mass regiment, since childhood from school, he perceived nationalist ideology and believed that latvia should probably be state for latvians did not like soviet power udrovsky served in

the army when latvia became part of the ussr after that he continued to serve already in the ranks of the red army. but as soon as the war began with weapons in his hands, he went over to the side of the germans and became a punisher. he was very proud of his service, and staying on a visit to his native in his native area. he he said, yes, we put things in order, we are fighting the soviet threat there. moreover, they say he even made himself a tattoo of the ss, which he later tried to remove after the war, so that no one would conclude that he was an essay in the novgorod region. he tried and killed civilians, and in the forty-third he became a fighter of the latvian legion with happiness the germans evacuated the divisions of the latvian ss legion from riga during the retreat, when the kurland cauldron was formed, they were evacuated to germany and with all their might by falsehood, she tried to surrender to the western

ally, because she understood mmm. uh, their guides. especially what is with them, uh, they will do the severe forty-fifth ss man udrovskiy. the court manages to surrender to the british for a while, he spends in a prisoner of war camp later, the executioners of the tin slide emigrate to canada there, he lives happily on the second one on the same criminal cases that we see, i mean on different kgb cases live in the west there are families whose children they love there are dogs they stroke there are cars that are not washed and you can to speak to schoolchildren, telling how he fought and shed blood for a free independent latvia, you can give interviews to representatives of the western media, talk about how they

fought heroically and if heavy sacrifices in the fight against the cursed slime of bolshevism, the next on the list, rudolf grotte was born in riga, worked for contribution. quite an adult, an accomplished man of 37 years old, well, the war begins, and he probably goes to the service of the nazis to feed his family, while not refusing. from the dirtiest job this killer was lucky to get captured by the americans after the war, groty leaves for the usa with his wife and continues the life of the venerable father of the family who died. he is quite recently a little, not having reached 3 years. he died. he is surrounded. he had, in my opinion, three children, and was buried in california. that is, you can write 103 years of life. and those people whom he killed, well, there, sorry if

these are children, they may not even have lived for ten years, but it’s just terrible to think that this person, who supposedly should have been punished. but he was not punished not by the soviet union, nor even by life, long happy life. but now he will burn forever in hell among uh former uh latvian lithuanian and estonian punishers who dug themselves back in the west in brazil in australia new zealand uh, amazingly high life expectancy. they cling to life so to speak that, uh, far away. uh , quite a few of them, 90 years old and even more became known about him , not so much a baltic german born in riga was married to a native of petrograd, margot kallis, in the thirty-ninth year, uh, repatriated,

and on the territory of the reich or occupied, most likely poland, because most of the patriotic, but there are no germans here, were not settled in the reich at all, but the general. natorsk, so that there they carried out in the germanization, and the conquered territories. well, as we see, with the beginning of the war, he returned and, instead of serving at the front, he soiled himself with war crimes in punitive units, another punisher of the tin slide. porfiry belyaev, aka pauelsturis. he, for example, is from a mixed family; his father is a russian mother, latyshko, and therefore even given the already soviet times, he is a god, hiding under her maiden name, and by the name of sturis, after the defeat of the third reich, belyaev, he is also a tourist, like many ss men, managed to slip away to brazil along the rat path, possibly lived next door to dr. joseph mengel. in total, there are 19 names on the list of bloody slaughterers, the ussr has repeatedly

sent requests for the extradition of these punishers, but the united states, canada, australia and other countries where they were kept from here as executioners. they refused to release them . why can the answer to this question be become the personal data of the leader of the entire gang of punishers, tin slide, i did not aim. i don't cry. les was born in 1929 in a latvian town. valko on the border with estonia. later he served in the riga infantry regiment. he attended a numerous military course, mastered a variety of military specialties and courses for instructors, attended both signalers and then even cryptographers, that is, it is clear that a person is very diverse intellectually, developed in 1939. he is already a senior lieutenant and head of physical training, 8th daugavpils regiment, but his career. he was dissatisfied. well, there was a way out, as he knew the estonian language perfectly. he learned that he could continue his education in estonia when the

baltic states became part of the ussr, he returned to latvia, took the oath and became an officer of the red army, a staunch anti-soviet. he never was always. only personal gain really, probably, if not started. uh, the great patriotic war, it’s quite possible that he would continue to quietly make a career for himself while serving in the red army, but the great patriotic war began and tsirulis commits desertion the investigation found that he had collaborated with the nazis since the forty-first year. that is, immediately after the occupation of latvia, he went to the service, the nazi cerulean goes to serve as the head of the auxiliary police in aluksne, and in order to win the trust of the nazis, he organizes several jewish thunders a in the summer, and the very first days of the occupation in the territory, and modern latvia began mass murders murder of those who were suspected of being employees of the sympathies of the soviet

government by the murder of jews and gypsies, those who were considered in quotation marks racially inferior to the germans this executive and and. the active traitor was soon liked, he was already as the commander of the security police and sd tal team in the batetsky district of the novgorod region in the village of zhestyanaya gorka. here, i’m not afraid to command mass executions of punitive actions, personally participate in the massacres of civilians, including children, torture them with their own hands, strangle and cut people with uh, personally participated in the killings. a very well documented investigation by the locals. uh, they saw and how he was already escorting the victim to the place, and they saw and how he directly

killed them by execution, and they also saw, uh, how he strangled one of the victims, and this is a very bright touch to the personality of this person in punitive a function during the nazi occupation involved a huge number of collaborators. well, not all of them were even crying, being murder by murderers. uh were involved in this, uh, personally on a psychological level. uh, ciriulis was involved with the king, the forest enjoyed murders. and i must say that their atrocities circulated, nevertheless combined a happy family life, and in december of the forty-second year. for example, his first-born daughter, marut, was born to him, and at the same time, he continued to serve in the interests of

germany when the front began to move west, and he could no longer, uh, serve as a policeman in those territories that the red army liberated and he entered the service in the legion ussr i am not sterlitz becomes the commander of the second battalion of the latvian legion of the ussr at the end of the war he is evacuated to germany under schwerin, he will be captured by the western allies, but he will soon be released. freedom, the executioner of the tin slide lives in ansbach, schweinfurt and kaiser slautern, which is why such frequent moves are connected, it seems that i don’t steal fox actively dodged, covering his tracks or doing someone’s secret task, just when it was, uh, soviet he led the investigation. uh, the west german branch of an organization called daugaz-vana. this is, uh, a veteran organization, and

he led the latin legionnaires with this organization like this just when his uh crime was, uh, established by, uh, the soviet authorities. at the same time , security secrets began to arrive at the headquarters of the newly created central intelligence agency in the united states from a secret agent under an operational pseudonym. e. paragraph 24 the soviet union sends the frg an official request for the extradition of a war criminal, but germany stubbornly tries to answer and will find out in our time. why is it in the early fifties? i don't sceru the forest was recruited by the cia already in