Zhestianaya Gorka massacre

The Zhestianaya Gorka massacre was a World War II massacre of partisans and civilians, mostly women and children, carried out in the village of Zhestianaya Gorka (now Novgorod oblast, Russia) by Schutzmannschaft and Nazi collaborators.

Zhestianaya Gorka massacre
Part of Eastern Front (World War II)
Mass grave of victims near Zhestianaya Gorka
LocationZhestianaya Gorka, Novgorod Oblast, Soviet Union
Date1941–1943
TargetSoviet civilians and partisans
Attack type
Mass Murder
Deaths2600
PerpetratorsLatvian Auxiliary Police, Einsatzgruppen
MotiveGenocide[1]

Massacre

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The massacre was not an unusual incident in the Soviet Union during World War II. In 1942—1944 German occupiers and their Russian and Latvian collaborators killed at least 2600 people in Zhestianaya Gorka. Russian historian Boris Kovalyov proved that a concentration camp was built near Zhestianaya Gorka.[2]

Post-war trials

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German general Kurt Herzog[3] and 18 his troops were tried in Novgorod in 1947. They were received prison for 25 years. Kurt Herzog died in 1948 at a prison, another inmates were released in 1954.

 
Mass grave of victims in Zhestianaya Gorka

References

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  1. ^ "В России начнется первый процесс о геноциде в годы Великой Отечественной". 14 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Земсков В.Н. Имелось ли в 1944 году у советского руководства намерение выселить украинское население, ранее проживавшее в условиях немецкой оккупации?". Международные отношения. 3 (3): 475–482. March 2014. doi:10.7256/2305-560x.2014.3.12107. ISSN 2305-560X.
  3. ^ Зорин, Александр Валерьевич (2019). "Восьмые петербургские тибетологические чтения (Санкт-Петербург, 10 сентября 2019 г.), "Письменные памятники Востока"". Письменные памятники Востока (4): 124–128. doi:10.7868/s1811806219040137. ISSN 1811-8062. S2CID 239067798.