The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation demands that the Baltic nationalists be recognized as Nazi collaborators
A statement was sent to the court to establish the fact of complicity of the Baltic nationalists of Nazi Germany during the Second World War
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The Russian Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the court with a demand to recognize the Baltic nationalists as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes during the Great Patriotic War.
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The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation uses archival documents for the legal assessment of crimes during the Great Patriotic War.
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The Russian Prosecutor General's Office demands recognition of the Baltic nationalists as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Great Patriotic War.
The statement from the Prosecutor General's Office indicates the names of the Baltic nationalists and organizations involved in the crimes, and also presents archival documents.
During the war and post-war years, over 1.5 million people were killed by Baltic collaborators.
MOSCOW, September 21 - RIA Novosti. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office demands recognition of the Baltic nationalists as accomplices of the German Wehrmacht in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Great Patriotic War against the Soviet people, the supervisory agency told RIA Novosti.
“The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent to the court an application to establish a fact of legal significance - recognizing the Baltic nationalists as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Great Patriotic War against the Soviet people,” the press service of the Russian Civil Prosecutor’s Office reported.
It is noted that the supervisory agency presented documents from the archives of the FSB, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, as well as the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
“The statement indicates that the Nazi invaders committed brutal crimes with the direct participation of their accomplices - Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian nationalists: Mere Aina-Ervin, R. Gerrets, Yennok, V.B. Arais, G.Ya. Cukurs, G.A. Tselminsh, R.K. Bangersky, V. Weiss, Ambrazyavichyus Yu., Klimaitis A., Impulevičius A., Luksa Yu., Kviklis B., as well as organizations: “Omakaitse”, “Aizsargi”, “Perkonkrusts”, “Lithuanian Front of Activists”, “Union of Lithuanian Nationalists,” said the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Thus, according to the presented materials, after the German attack on the USSR in the occupied territory, the Nazis recruited Baltic nationalists from among local residents to carry out “dirty work”: they carried out punitive operations against civilians and Soviet prisoners of war. During the Great Patriotic War, the territories of the Baltic countries were turned into a testing ground for the massacres of prisoners of war, Soviet employees with their families, as well as people suspected of sympathizing with the Red Army.
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