What did they do with the captured girls? An excerpt from the diary of a girl whom the Germans used as free labor. Destruction of the Acqui Division

Instead of a preface:

"When there were no gas chambers, we shot on Wednesdays and Fridays. The children tried to hide on these days. Now the crematorium ovens work day and night and the children no longer hide. The children are used to it.

- This is the first eastern subgroup.

- How are you, children?

- How do you live, children?

- We live well, our health is good. Come.

- I don’t need to go to the gas station, I can still give blood.

“The rats ate my rations, so I didn’t bleed.”

- I am assigned to load coal into the crematorium tomorrow.

- And I can donate blood.

- And I...

Take it.

- They don't know what it is?

- They forgot.

- Eat, children! Eat!

- Why didn’t you take it?

- Wait, I'll take it.

- You might not get it.

- Lie down, it doesn’t hurt, it’s like falling asleep. Get down!

- What's wrong with them?

- Why did they lie down?

“The children probably thought they were given poison...”

A group of Soviet prisoners of war behind barbed wire

Majdanek. Poland

The girl is a prisoner of the Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac

KZ Mauthausen, jugendliche

Children of Buchenwald

Joseph Mengele and child

Photo taken by me from Nuremberg materials

Children of Buchenwald

Mauthausen children show numbers etched into their hands

Treblinka

Two sources. One says that this is Majdanek, the other says Auschwitz

Some creatures use this photo as “proof” of hunger in Ukraine. It is not surprising that it is from Nazi crimes that they draw “inspiration” for their “revelations”

These are the children released in Salaspils

“Since the fall of 1942, masses of women, old people, and children from the occupied regions of the USSR: Leningrad, Kalinin, Vitebsk, Latgale were forcibly brought to the Salaspils concentration camp. Children from infancy to 12 years old were forcibly taken away from their mothers and kept in 9 barracks, of which the so-called 3 sick leaves, 2 for crippled children and 4 barracks for healthy children.

The permanent population of children in Salaspils was more than 1,000 people during 1943 and 1944. Their systematic extermination took place there by:

A) organizing a blood factory for the needs of the German army, blood was taken from both adults and healthy children, including babies, until they fainted, after which the sick children were taken to the so-called hospital, where they died;

B) gave children poisoned coffee;

C) children with measles were bathed, from which they died;

D) they injected children with child, female and even horse urine. Many children's eyes festered and leaked;

D) all children suffered from dysenteric diarrhea and dystrophy;

E) in winter, naked children were driven to a bathhouse through the snow at a distance of 500-800 meters and kept in barracks naked for 4 days;

3) children who were crippled or injured were taken away to be shot.

Mortality among children from the above causes averaged 300-400 per month during 1943/44. to the month of June.

According to preliminary data, over 500 children were exterminated in the Salaspils concentration camp in 1942, and in 1943/44. more than 6,000 people.

During 1943/44 More than 3,000 people who survived and endured torture were taken from the concentration camp. For this purpose, a children's market was organized in Riga at 5 Gertrudes Street, where they were sold into slavery for 45 marks per summer period.

Some of the children were placed in children's camps organized for this purpose after May 1, 1943 - in Dubulti, Bulduri, Saulkrasti. After this, the German fascists continued to supply the kulaks of Latvia with slaves of Russian children from the above-mentioned camps and export them directly to the volosts of the Latvian counties, selling them for 45 Reichsmarks over the summer period.

Most of these children who were taken out and given away to be raised died because... were easily susceptible to all kinds of diseases after losing blood in the Salaspils camp.

On the eve of the expulsion of the German fascists from Riga, on October 4-6, they loaded infants and toddlers under the age of 4 from the Riga orphanage and the Major orphanage, where the children of executed parents, who came from the dungeons of the Gestapo, prefectures, and prisons, were loaded onto the ship "Menden" and partly from the Salaspils camp and exterminated 289 small children on that ship.

They were driven away by the Germans to Libau, an orphanage for infants located there. Children from Baldonsky and Grivsky orphanages; nothing is known about their fate yet.

Not stopping at these atrocities, the German fascists in 1944 sold low-quality products in Riga stores only using children's cards, in particular milk with some kind of powder. Why did small children die in droves? More than 400 children died in the Riga Children's Hospital alone in 9 months of 1944, including 71 children in September.

In these orphanages, the methods of raising and maintaining children were police and under the supervision of the commandant of the Salaspils concentration camp, Krause, and another German, Schaefer, who went to the children's camps and houses where the children were kept for “inspection.”

It was also established that in the Dubulti camp, children were put in a punishment cell. To do this, the former head of the Benoit camp resorted to the assistance of the German SS police.

Senior NKVD operative officer, security captain /Murman/

Children were brought from the eastern lands occupied by the Germans: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. Children ended up in Latvia with their mothers, where they were then forcibly separated. Mothers were used as free labor. Older children were also used in various kinds of auxiliary work.

According to the People's Commissariat of Education of the LSSR, which investigated the facts of the abduction of civilians into German slavery, as of April 3, 1945, it is known that 2,802 children were distributed from the Salaspils concentration camp during the German occupation:

1) on kulak farms - 1,564 people.

2) to children's camps - 636 people.

3) taken into care by individual citizens - 602 people.

The list is compiled on the basis of data from the card index of the Social Department of Internal Affairs of the Latvian General Directorate “Ostland”. Based on the same file, it was revealed that children were forced to work from the age of five.

In the last days of their stay in Riga in October 1944, the Germans broke into orphanages, into the homes of infants, into apartments, grabbed children, drove them to the port of Riga, where they were loaded like cattle into the coal mines of steamships.

Through mass executions in the vicinity of Riga alone, the Germans killed about 10,000 children, whose corpses were burned. 17,765 children were killed in mass shootings.

Based on the investigation materials for other cities and counties of the LSSR, the following number of exterminated children was established:

Abrensky district - 497
Ludza County - 732
Rezekne County and Rezekne - 2,045, incl. through Rezekne prison more than 1,200
Madona County - 373
Daugavpils - 3,960, incl. through Daugavpils prison 2,000
Daugavpils district - 1,058
Valmiera County - 315
Jelgava - 697
Ilukstsky district - 190
Bauska County - 399
Valka County - 22
Cesis County - 32
Jekabpils County - 645
Total - 10,965 people.

In Riga, dead children were buried in the Pokrovskoye, Tornakalnskoye and Ivanovskoye cemeteries, as well as in the forest near the Salaspils camp."

In the ditch

The bodies of two child prisoners before the funeral. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 04/17/1945

Children behind the wire

Soviet child prisoners of the 6th Finnish concentration camp in Petrozavodsk

“The girl who is second from the post on the right in the photo - Klavdia Nyuppieva - published her memoirs many years later.

“I remember how people fainted from the heat in the so-called bathhouse, and then they were doused with cold water. I remember the disinfection of the barracks, after which there was a noise in the ears and many had nosebleeds, and that steam room where all our rags were processed with great “diligence.” One day the steam room burned down, depriving many people of their last clothes.”

The Finns shot prisoners in front of children and administered corporal punishment to women, children and the elderly, regardless of age. She also said that the Finns shot young guys before leaving Petrozavodsk and that her sister was saved simply by a miracle. According to available Finnish documents, only seven men were shot for attempting to escape or other crimes. During the conversation, it turned out that the Sobolev family was one of those who were taken from Zaonezhye. It was difficult for Soboleva’s mother and her six children. Claudia said that their cow was taken away from them, they were deprived of the right to receive food for a month, then, in the summer of 1942, they were transported on a barge to Petrozavodsk and assigned to concentration camp number 6, in the 125th barrack. The mother was immediately taken to the hospital. Claudia recalled with horror the disinfection carried out by the Finns. People burned out in the so-called bathhouse, and then they were doused with cold water. The food was bad, the food was spoiled, the clothes were unusable.

Only at the end of June 1944 were they able to leave the barbed wire of the camp. There were six Sobolev sisters: 16-year-old Maria, 14-year-old Antonina, 12-year-old Raisa, nine-year-old Claudia, six-year-old Evgenia and very little Zoya, she was not yet three years old.

Worker Ivan Morekhodov spoke about the attitude of the Finns towards the prisoners: “There was little food, and it was bad. The baths were terrible. The Finns showed no pity.”

In a Finnish concentration camp

Auschwitz (Auschwitz)

Photos of 14-year-old Czeslava Kvoka

The photographs of 14-year-old Czeslawa Kwoka, on loan from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, were taken by Wilhelm Brasse, who worked as a photographer at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where about 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, died from repression during World War II. In December 1942, a Polish Catholic woman, Czeslawa, originally from the town of Wolka Zlojecka, was sent to Auschwitz along with her mother. Three months later they both died. In 2005, photographer (and fellow prisoner) Brasset described how he photographed Czeslava: “She was so young and so scared. The girl did not understand why she was here and did not understand what was being said to her. And then the kapo (prison guard) took a stick and hit her in the face. This German woman simply took out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful, young and innocent creature. She cried, but could not do anything. Before being photographed, the girl wiped tears and blood from her broken lip. Frankly, I felt as if I had been beaten, but I could not intervene. It would have ended fatally for me."

Many Soviet women who served in the Red Army were ready to commit suicide to avoid being captured. Violence, bullying, painful executions - this was the fate that awaited most of the captured nurses, signalmen, and intelligence officers. Only a few ended up in prisoner of war camps, but even there their situation was often even worse than that of the male Red Army soldiers.

Women soldiers in the camps

Those women who managed to avoid execution were sent to camps. Almost constant violence awaited them there. Particularly cruel were the policemen and those male prisoners of war who agreed to work for the Nazis and became camp guards. Women were often given to them as a “reward” for their service.
The camps often lacked basic living conditions. The prisoners of the Ravensbrück concentration camp tried to make their existence as easy as possible: they washed their hair with the ersatz coffee provided for breakfast, and secretly sharpened their own combs.
According to international law, prisoners of war could not be recruited to work in military factories. But this was not applied to women. In 1943, Elizaveta Klemm, who was captured, tried on behalf of a group of prisoners to protest the Germans’ decision to send Soviet women to the factory. In response to this, the authorities first beat everyone, and then drove them into a cramped room where it was impossible to even move.

After captivity

Some women managed to escape from captivity and even return to the unit. But being in captivity irreversibly changed them. Valentina Kostromitina, who served as a medical instructor, recalled her friend Musa, who was captured. She was “terribly afraid to go on the landing because she was in captivity.” She never managed to “cross the bridge on the pier and board the boat.” The friend’s stories made such an impression that Kostromitina was afraid of captivity even more than of bombing.

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The story contains scenes of torture, violence, sex. If this offends your tender soul, don’t read, but get the fuck out of here!

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The plot takes place during the Great Patriotic War. A partisan detachment operates in the territory occupied by the Nazis. The fascists know that there are many women among the partisans, just how to identify them. Finally they managed to catch the girl Katya when she was trying to sketch a diagram of the location of German firing points...

The captured girl was led into a small room in the school, where the Gestapo department was now located. A young officer interrogated Katya. Besides him, there were several policemen and two vulgar-looking women in the room. Katya knew them, they served the Germans. I just didn’t fully know how.

The officer instructed the guards holding the girl to release her, which they did. He motioned for her to sit down. The girl sat down. The officer ordered one of the girls to bring tea. But Katya refused. The officer took a sip, then lit a cigarette. He offered it to Katya, but she refused. The officer started a conversation, and he spoke Russian quite well.

What is your name?

Katerina.

I know that you were engaged in intelligence work for the communists. This is true?

But you are so young, so beautiful. You probably ended up in their service by accident?

No! I am a Komsomol member and want to become a communist, like my father, Hero of the Soviet Union, who died at the front.

I regret that such a young beautiful girl fell for the bait of the red asses. At one time, my father served in the Russian army during the First World War. He commanded a company. He has many glorious victories and awards to his name. But when the communists came to power, for all his services to his homeland he was accused of being an enemy of the people and shot. My mother and I faced starvation, like the children of enemies of the people, but one of the Germans (who was a prisoner of war and whose father did not allow us to be shot) helped us escape to Germany and even enlist in the service. I always wanted to be a hero like my father. And now I have arrived to save my homeland from the communists.

You are a fascist bitch, an invader, a killer of innocent people...

We never kill innocent people. On the contrary, we are returning to them what the red-assed people took from them. Yes, we recently hanged two women who set fire to houses where our soldiers temporarily settled. But the soldiers managed to run out, and the owners lost the last thing that the war did not take away from them.

They fought against...

Your people!

Not true!

Okay, let us be invaders. You are now required to answer several questions. After that, we will determine your punishment.

I won't answer your questions!

Okay, then name with whom you are organizing terrorist attacks against German soldiers.

Not true. We've been watching you.

Then why should I answer?

So that innocent people don't get hurt.

I won't tell you anyone...

Then I will invite the boys to untie your stubborn tongue.

Nothing will work out for you!

We'll see about that later. So far there has not been a single case out of 15 and nothing has worked out for us... Let's get to work, boys!

06.07.43: The Nazi scoundrels continue their bloody atrocities against civilians in the occupied Soviet regions. In the forest behind the village of Belaya, Vitebsk region, the Nazis shot 86 old people, women and children. In the village of Starina, the Germans burned 24 collective farmers alive. Fascist scoundrels in the same village raped several girls and then killed them. (Sovinformburo)*

APRIL 1943:

20.04.43: Residents of villages and villages in the Leningrad region liberated from the German invaders spoke about the monstrous atrocities of the Nazis. In the village of Peski, Nazi murderers hanged collective farmer Ivan Morozov and burned his house because he hid his daughter from a German officer who wanted to rape her. A sixteen-year-old girl, Nastya Zemskova, hit the German officer who was pestering her and said: “You can’t see either Moscow or Leningrad, just like a pig can’t see the sky.” The Nazis grabbed the girl and took her away. Since then, nothing has been known about her fate. Before the German occupation, the village of Cherny Ruchey had 250 inhabitants. The Germans drove over 100 people to hard labor in Germany. The Nazis tortured and shot several dozen civilians. Many collective farmers and collective farmers died from hunger and deprivation. Currently, only . (Sovinformburo)

07.04.43: The Nazi scoundrels devastated and devastated the village of Podmoshe in the Smolensk region. The Nazis did not spare either women or children. There is not a single family in the village that did not suffer from Hitler’s murderers. Teacher Anna Konyukhova was shot by bandits because she resisted a German who was trying to rape her. The executioners tortured and killed civilians Mikhail Stepanenko, Alexander Stepanenko, Boris Barsukov and his daughter, Vasily Feoktistov, 12-year-old children - Alexey Ignatov and Dmitry Ivanov. The Germans subjected the 85-year-old old man Kozhurov and his wife to brutal torture. During interrogations, the Germans beat them, demanding to indicate the location of the partisans. Soviet patriots steadfastly endured all the torture, accepted martyrdom, but did not hand over the partisans and fellow villagers associated with them. (Sovinformburo)*

07.03.43: Below is an act about the atrocities of the Nazi scoundrels in the village of Kuban, Oryol region: “From the day the German invaders broke into the village of Kuban, hard labor began for us. The Germans, without any reason, shot collective farmers: Ivan Marokhin, Alexei Yakushin, Foma Melnikov, Ivan Pisarev and many others. Hitler's bastards raped Varvara Zh., abused Marina Melnikova, and then killed her. More than 200 village residents were held in the basements of the German commandant's office, where they were subjected to flogging and all kinds of abuse. The Nazis disfigured our village, destroyed a school, a dairy farm, collective farm buildings and many houses of collective farmers. There is not a single person in the entire village who has not been robbed by Nazi bandits, there is not a single house in which there are no traces of German robbery and destruction. We are confident that the Red Army will take revenge on the Nazi murderers for our torment and will cleanse our native Soviet land of fascist carrion.” The act was signed by: member of the village council Ivan Korolev, teacher Anisya Rudakova, collective farmers - Alexander Khokhaev, Oksana Lavrukhina and others. (Sovinformburo)*

24.12.42: The Nazi scoundrels committed a bloody massacre of the civilian population of the villages of Snorki and Golovitsy, Smolensk region. In the village of Snorki, the Nazis burned 16 houses along with the people in them. 70 residents were burned alive. Fascist monsters raped 17-year-old collective farmer Alexandra Gvardeytseva. After vile abuse, they cut off her breasts and shot her. In the village of Golovitsy, German bandits shot collective farmer Maria Zabolotskaya with three children aged from one to six years. A one-year-old child was shot and killed in his mother's arms. The entire Denisenkova family, consisting of five adults and a two-year-old child, was shot. In total, in these villages the Nazis shot, brutally tortured and burned 166 innocent women. (Sovinformburo)

NOVEMBER 1942:

17.11.42: Nazi monsters committed a savage and heinous crime in the village of Trosna, Kursk region. The Nazis herded a group of girls from the surrounding villages to this village to send them to hard labor in Germany. Here all the girls were locked in a barn. At night a German military unit passed through the village. The fascist scoundrels broke into the barn and abused those in it. (Sovinformburo)

06.11.42: The Nazi scoundrels destroyed and burned to the ground the village of Soltanovka, Oryol region. The fire destroyed 450 collective farmers' houses, a school, a hospital, a dairy farm and other public buildings. The Germans tortured and shot dozens of village residents. 19-year-old collective farmer Anna Matyushkina was raped by Hitler’s monsters, and then they cut out her breasts, cut off her ears and shot her. The local hospital doctor Alexandra Alekseevna Malinovskaya was burned alive by bandits. (Sovinformburo)*

16.07.42: Nazi cannibals exterminate the civilian population of the occupied Soviet regions. In the village of Lugan, Oryol region, the Nazis tortured 20 local residents. The executioners shot teacher Anna Fedoseevna Korotchenko, 23 years old, her son Vyacheslav, two and a half years old, and mother Praskovya Ivanovna, 53 years old. Fascist scoundrels raped teacher Anna Konstantinovna Kozhanova, and then shot her along with her 5-year-old son Victor and 7-year-old daughter Lyudmila...

The brutal massacre was carried out by the Nazi scoundrels in the village of Boyarka, near Kiev. The Nazis forced 15 teenage girls into the school premises, abused their victims, and then hanged them. (Sovinformburo)

13.06.42: The captured chief corporal of the 171st regiment of the 56th German infantry division, Gustav Lanz, said: “I witnessed the atrocities committed by the soldiers of the Grossdeutschland regiment.” At the beginning of April, we replaced this regiment in the villages of Rzhevka and Melekhovo. In Rzhevka I saw 15 burnt corpses of local residents. Among those tortured were old people, women and children. In one house on the outskirts of the village of Melekhova, six dead women lay. The soldiers abused them and then strangled them.” (Sovinformburo)*

19.04.42: On the outskirts of the village of Chervinskaya Luka, Leningrad Region, liberated from the Nazi invaders, 63 corpses of old people, women and children were discovered. All corpses are doused with water and frozen. Medical examination established that all these civilians were shot by Hitler’s monsters. Several women were raped and then bayoneted to death. Many corpses had their fingers cut off and their legs twisted. Two women's breasts were cut off. German bandits burned all the houses and public buildings of the village. The surviving peasants were driven to the rear of the German army. (Sovinformburo)*

JANUARY 1942:

27.01.42: In the village of Myasoedovo, Kursk region, the Germans burned all the houses and drove the population to the rear. During the fire, one peasant woman took her two children out of the burning house, laid them on the street, and she ran to save the others. The Nazis passing along the street grabbed both children and threw them into the river hole. Before retreating from this village, German bandits raped 12 women and girls, and then... (Sovinformburo)

20.01.42: Retreating under the pressure of units of the Red Army, the German bandits took with them all the inhabitants of the villages of Nikitki and Maslovo. Most of the houses in these villages were burned by the Nazis. In the village of Nikitki, 69 out of 70 houses burned down, in Maslovo - 68 out of 69. In the village of Maslovo, the Germans burned alive Morozov F.A., his daughter Maria and collective farmers Kotova G., Kuznetsova V. and Petrovskaya V...

In the village of Chernaya Gryaz, Ugodsko-Zavodsky district, Moscow region, the Nazi scoundrels shot 30 peasants and hung the corpses on trees along the road. For three weeks, before the Red Army occupied the village, the Germans did not allow relatives to bury those executed. In the same village, fascist bandits raped and then brutally killed two women - Soloninkova E. and. (Sovinformburo)

16.01.42: In the village of Slobodino, Moscow region, the Nazis from the punitive detachment gathered a group of girls and young women, raped them and shot them. (Sovinformburo)

11.01.42: In the village of Peresheyek, Lyadsky district, Leningrad region, the German occupiers staged a wild pogrom. They took all the bread, livestock, chickens, all clothes and household utensils from the population. After the robbery, the Germans raped several girls and then burned them. (Sovinformburo)

09.01.42: Retreating from the village of Mazikino, the Nazi monsters burned all the huts, and the peasants who tried to put out the fire were shot. From the peasant woman of this village Shmakova D.M. The Germans burned four children. In the village of Myasoyedovo, the Nazis forced 12 women into a barn, raped them and... (Sovinformburo)

03.01.42: Retreating from the village of Pavlovo-Luzhetskoye, Istrinsky district, Moscow region, the Nazi scoundrels shot the 70-year-old collective farmer Prokhorov. I.A., burned a woman along with two young children and raped many girls...

In the village of Masleno, after it was abandoned by the Nazis, the corpses of 8 women and one 14-year-old boy were discovered. The women were raped and then killed. The unfortunate people's noses were cut off, their faces were cut up, one woman's. (Sovinformburo)

01.01.42: 60-year-old peasant Arkatov, living in the village of Sloboda, Novopetrovsky district, Moscow region, now liberated from the Germans, said: “As soon as the Nazis entered our village, general looting began. They took away our cows, sheep, chickens, all our supplies of flour, cereals, and vegetables. The German robbers took away all our warm clothes, felt boots, and underwear. Having met me on the outskirts of the village, a German soldier ordered me to take off my felt boots and fur coat, and I walked barefoot to my house. The robberies were followed by executions. The Germans shot the peasants Belyankin K.I., Belyankin N.A., Kapustin N.V., Kadilshchik N.A., Baranov E.I., Ryzhov M.I., Osipova and others. The Nazis raped the pregnant Evdokia T. in two weeks.” (Sovinformburo)

DECEMBER 1941:

25.12.41: In the village of Voronki, the Germans placed 40 wounded captured Red Army soldiers and Soviet nurses in a former hospital. The Nazis raped and shot the nurses, and they stationed sentries at the hospital and didn’t let anyone in. After 4 days, some of the patients died. The survivors are fiends. (Sovinformburo)

16.12.41: Residents of villages and towns in the Moscow region, liberated by Red Army units from the Nazi occupiers, talk about the monstrous atrocities of the Nazi scoundrels. In the village of Bely Rast, German soldiers set a 12-year-old boy, Volodya Tkachev, as a target and opened fire on him with machine guns. Volodya's body was riddled with 21 bullets. In the same village, the Nazis shot, without any reason, the mother of four young children, collective farmer Irina Vasilievna Mosolova. In the village of Zaramushki, the Nazis shot the collective farmer Metlova - 67 years old, Ekaterina Goloshchekina - 60 years old, Agrafena Sokolov - 40 years old, Yakov Kordnova - 58 years old and others. In the village of Ovsyannikovo, the Germans captured several wounded Red Army soldiers. They were all stripped, took off their shoes and locked in a cold barn. Leaving the village, the monsters shot all the prisoners. The Nazis gouged out the eyes of three fighters, broke their legs, carved stars on their cheeks and pierced their throats with a bayonet. Collective farmer Ivan Gavrilovich Terekhin walked through the village of Puchki with his wife Polina Borisovna. Several German soldiers grabbed Polina and, in front of her husband's eyes, raped her one by one and then killed her. Collective farmer Terekhin, who tried to protect his wife, was also shot dead. The German invaders robbed the population; they took everything in sight. So, for example, from a citizen of the village of Nikolskoye Sergeeva Agrafena Sergeevna, Hitler’s robbers took away a mattress, a samovar, a kettle, tea utensils, a basket of flour, matches, sugar, a lady’s jacket, an axe, a saw, children’s toys and even a net for straining milk...

Residents of villages in the Rostov region, liberated from the Nazi invaders, talk about unheard-of atrocities and general robberies carried out by Hitler’s plunder army. In the village of Novospasovka, in the house of collective farmer Elena Gamova, several German soldiers settled. In the evening they had a drinking party. The two-year-old son of a collective farmer woke up and cried. One of the fascist monsters tore the child from the mother’s arms and put him in a burning oven. In the same village, the Germans doused the peasant woman Marfa Kovpak with gasoline and set her on fire. In the village of Generalskaya, the Nazis raped, then tortured and shot Nadezhda Gurtovaya and her 14-year-old daughter. (Sovinformburo)*

NOVEMBER 1941:

18.11.41: The Nazi scoundrels continue to abuse and abuse the civilian population of the cities and villages of Belarus. A detachment of German soldiers who arrived in the village of Kostyukovka took away all the property from the peasants. Peasant Drigulina Ksenia asked the German officer to leave the laundry of her four children. The brutal fascist beat the woman and then shot her. German soldiers threw all four of Drigulina’s children into the cellar and covered them with earth. In the village of Nerki, the Nazis raped and tortured to death the peasant women Zhigalova, Serikova and Urupina. In the village of Kholmy, fascist monsters brutally tortured six fifteen-year-old girls. In the city of Yelsk, the Nazis put five hundred local residents on a barge and took them to the middle of the Pripyat River. The prisoners were not given food for five days. Then German soldiers sank the barge along with the people in it. (Sovinformburo)*

04.11.41: The Nazi scoundrels continue to rob and kill civilians in the occupied areas. Having captured the village of Akimovka, on the very first day the Nazis shot Nikolai Mikhailov, Eftey Ushakov, his 12-year-old daughter and the disabled Burtsev. A few days later, the occupiers shot a large group of collective farmers: seventy-year-old old men Yakov Romanenko and Prokhor Torgashov, sixty-year-old Alexandra Kovaleva, Anna Muskova and others. The fascist scoundrels brutally abused Agafonova. They raped her, and then subjected her to the most excruciating tortures, cutting off her breasts and stabbing her all over her body. The fascist monsters did not spare even Agafonova’s young children. Getting ready to leave, Hitler's bandits killed her four-year-old son Vasya and. (Sovinformburo)

01.11.41: Reports continue to come in about the monstrous atrocities of fascist bandits. In the village of Vasilyevka, Oryol region, drunken German soldiers forced the girls they had raped and beaten to dance. At this time, a pregnant collective farmer, Anna Larionova, was walking down the street. The Nazis demanded that she dance too. Larionova tried to refuse, citing pregnancy. An enraged fellow with a corporal's stripes hit the woman in the stomach with his boot. Larionova lost consciousness. Labor pains began. The fascist monsters forbade the peasant women to help the woman in labor. The unfortunate woman gave birth to a stillborn child. (Sovinformburo)*

05.10.41: Hitler's cannibals continue their outrages and atrocities in the Soviet regions they captured.

In the villages of Glinyanaya and Dikovka, Kirovograd region, the Nazis took away all agricultural products and household items from the population. The villages of Vypolzovo and Karpilovka, Ostersky district, Chernigov region, were completely destroyed. Fascist scoundrels everywhere carry out rampant robberies and deal with defenseless civilians with unheard-of cruelty. In the village of Slobodka, Chernobyl district, Kyiv region, the Nazis demanded milk from the collective farmer Nechuiko. In response to this, Comrade Nechuiko said: “You have already taken the cow, where can I get milk for you?” For this, the Nazis beat the collective farmer to a pulp and then burned her house. In the village of Borodaevka, Verkhnedneprovsky district, Dnepropetrovsk region, the Nazis raped. (Sovinformburo)

SEPTEMBER 1941:

27.09.41: Residents of the village of Novo-Vasilievka, liberated from the Germans, report the atrocious crimes of fascist monsters. Collective farmer Fedosya Matyukha says: “The fascist murderers burst into my house, grabbed my husband Anufriy and took him away with them. The next day I found his body in a ditch. He lay all cut up, mutilated, with his eyes gouged out.” Collective farmer Vasily Shnyrev, suffering from tuberculosis, was tortured and tormented for a long time. He was bayoneted, cut, and then shot. Collective farmer Maria Pryadko says: “The Germans plundered the entire village. They, like dogs, scoured the huts and took everything. The Nazis knocked out the frames in my hut, broke a mirror, took away my textiles, all the cast iron, buckets, and trampled my garden. My seven children and I hid from the Germans in a pit. One drunken scoundrel came up to us and started shooting into the pit. It was only by miracle that we survived.” Soldiers stole a sewing machine, two tablecloths, and pillows from collective farmer Pyotr Kozlov. In other houses, the Nazis took away gramophones, bicycles, blankets, and clothes.

Collective farmer Tatyana Galushko says: “The Germans committed outrages in our village for three days. How much trouble they have done, how much grief and tears they have brought! They destroyed and burned 13 huts. The Germans plundered and set fire to Ivan Puchko’s hut. The monsters grabbed women and raped them. They caught my daughter and before my eyes, not paying attention to my screams and tears, they tortured her for a long time. All the atrocities of Hitler’s robbers, all that we saw during these three days, to me.” (Sovinformburo)

16.09.41: Hitler's soldiers rob the population of the occupied Soviet regions, brutally abuse the elderly, women and children... In the village of Zakharovka, the Germans hanged 14 collective farmers for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of their daughters. Having occupied the villages of Yuryevo and Bereznik, west of Staraya Russa, the Germans confiscated and slaughtered all livestock and poultry from the population. Having dumped the looted food onto carts, the Germans harnessed them to collective farmers, including old women and old men, and forced them to take them to a neighboring village. In the village of Monino, a drunken German soldier burst into the house of peasant Nikolai Kurgaev and tried to rape the owner of the house. The husband stood up for his wife and was shot dead on the spot.

In the village of Milutino, the Germans arrested 24 collective farmers and took them to a neighboring village. Among those arrested was 13-year-old Anastasia Davydova. Throwing the peasants into a dark barn, the Nazis began to torture them, demanding information about the partisans. Everyone was silent. Then the Germans took the girl out of the barn and asked in which direction the collective farm cattle had been driven away. The young patriot refused to answer. The fascist scoundrels raped the girl and then... (Sovinformburo)

11.09.41: In the village of Khanino, a group of German officers organized a drunken party, to which they dragged a local teacher and raped her one by one. 16-year-old collective farmer Ch. was raped by five German soldiers. The Nazis collected all the girls and young women from Tokarevo and surrounding villages and drove them away in an unknown direction. None of them have returned home yet. (Sovinformburo)*

09.09.41: In the areas of Ukraine captured by the Germans, the Nazis continue to commit outrages, killing hundreds and thousands of Soviet citizens, raping girls and women, and robbing the population. In the village of Selishche, Kanevsky district, Kyiv region, the Nazis gathered a group of women and girls, took them into the forest and brutally raped them there. In the village of Griveni, Rzhishchevsky district, the Germans, mocking a 60-year-old collective farmer, forced him to flee under fire. The Nazis shot the unfortunate old man in both legs. In the occupied areas of the Kirovograd and Dnepropetrovsk regions, the German command announced that all collective farm property belonged to the Germans and that peasants who encroached on it would be shot. In response to the atrocities of the fascist scoundrels, every day more and more hundreds of peasants join partisan detachments. (Sovinformburo )*

AUGUST 1941:

14.08.41: Every day brings new reports of fascist atrocities and robberies in Soviet areas captured by the German army. Having broken into the village of Berestovets in the Uman direction, the Germans raped all the women and girls. Having abused collective farmers Ulyana Rybalova and Elena Kozhumyak, fascist officers shot them. Among those tortured by fascist monsters are 70-year-old collective farmer Levko Korzh and his 19-year-old. (Sovinformburo)

09.08.41: Worker of the Aida cartridge factory, comrade. I. Bryantsev writes: “Before my eyes, the Gestapo shot 25 factory workers and employees with pistols - members of the factory committee and other activists of the trade union organization. Thirty Stakhanovites and activists from Lviv garment factory No. 1 were killed by stormtroopers in their apartments at night. Drunken German soldiers dragged Lviv girls and young women into Kosciuszko Park and brutally raped them. 15-year-old schoolgirl Lydia S. was raped one by one by seven German tank crews. The Nazis threw the tortured corpse of the unfortunate girl into the trash heap at house No. 18 on Slovatskogo Street. The old priest V.L. Pomaznev, who with a cross in his hands begged to spare the population and tried to prevent violence against girls, was beaten by the Nazis, tore off his cassock, burned his beard and ". (Sovinformburo)

02.08.41: The thirteen-year-old daughter of a collective farmer, Zina G., was taken to the field hospital of the Ensky part of the Red Army, operating in the southwestern direction. The girl was brutally raped by a German officer. As a medical examination showed, the fascist rapist infected the girl with syphilis. (Sovinformburo)*

22.07.41: Soviet partisans brought a group of women and children, repulsed during a raid by a partisan detachment on the village of F, captured by the Germans, to the location of the Ensky part of the Red Army. Soviet women spoke about the horrific atrocities of fascist officers and soldiers. The Nazis turned the village of F. into heaps of ruins, strewn with the mutilated corpses of killed and burned alive peasants and members of their families. Among the villagers delivered were eight girls aged 13 to 15 years old who were raped. (Sovinformburo)

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Women medical workers of the Red Army, taken prisoner near Kiev, were collected for transfer to a prisoner of war camp, August 1941:

The dress code of many girls is semi-military and semi-civilian, which is typical for the initial stage of the war, when the Red Army had difficulties in providing women's uniform sets and uniform shoes in small sizes. On the left is a sad captured artillery lieutenant, who could be the “stage commander”.

How many female soldiers of the Red Army ended up in German captivity is unknown. However, the Germans did not recognize women as military personnel and regarded them as partisans. Therefore, according to the German private Bruno Schneider, before sending his company to Russia, their commander, Oberleutnant Prince, familiarized the soldiers with the order: “Shoot all women who serve in units of the Red Army.” Numerous facts indicate that this order was applied throughout the war.
In August 1941, on the orders of Emil Knol, commander of the field gendarmerie of the 44th Infantry Division, a prisoner of war, a military doctor, was shot.
In the city of Mglinsk, Bryansk region, in 1941, the Germans captured two girls from a medical unit and shot them.
After the defeat of the Red Army in Crimea in May 1942, in the fishing village “Mayak” not far from Kerch, an unknown girl in military uniform was hiding in the house of a resident of Buryachenko. On May 28, 1942, the Germans discovered her during a search. The girl resisted the Nazis, shouting: “Shoot, you bastards! I am dying for the Soviet people, for Stalin, and you, monsters, will die like a dog!” The girl was shot in the yard.
At the end of August 1942, in the village of Krymskaya, Krasnodar Territory, a group of sailors was shot, among them were several girls in military uniform.
In the village of Starotitarovskaya, Krasnodar Territory, among the executed prisoners of war, the corpse of a girl in a Red Army uniform was discovered. She had a passport with her in the name of Tatyana Alexandrovna Mikhailova, 1923. She was born in the village of Novo-Romanovka.
In the village of Vorontsovo-Dashkovskoye, Krasnodar Territory, in September 1942, captured military paramedics Glubokov and Yachmenev were brutally tortured.
On January 5, 1943, not far from the Severny farm, 8 Red Army soldiers were captured. Among them is a nurse named Lyuba. After prolonged torture and abuse, all those captured were shot.

Two rather grinning Nazis - a non-commissioned officer and a fanen-junker (officer candidate, right) - are escorting a captured Soviet girl soldier - into captivity... or to death?


It seems that the “Hans” do not look evil... Although - who knows? In war, completely ordinary people often do such outrageous abominations that they would never do in “another life”...
The girl is dressed in a full set of field uniforms of the Red Army model 1935 - men's, and in good "command" boots that fit.

A similar photo, probably from the summer or early autumn of 1941. Convoy - a German non-commissioned officer, a female prisoner of war in a commander's cap, but without insignia:

Divisional intelligence translator P. Rafes recalls that in the village of Smagleevka, liberated in 1943, 10 km from Kantemirovka, residents told how in 1941 “a wounded female lieutenant was dragged naked onto the road, her face and hands were cut, her breasts were cut off... »
Knowing what awaited them if captured, female soldiers, as a rule, fought to the last.
Captured women were often subjected to violence before their death. A soldier from the 11th Panzer Division, Hans Rudhof, testifies that in the winter of 1942 “... Russian nurses were lying on the roads. They were shot and thrown onto the road. They lay naked... On these dead bodies... obscene inscriptions were written."
In Rostov in July 1942, German motorcyclists burst into the yard in which nurses from the hospital were located. They were going to change into civilian clothes, but did not have time. So, in military uniform, they were dragged into a barn and raped. However, they did not kill him.
Women prisoners of war who ended up in the camps were also subjected to violence and abuse. Former prisoner of war K.A. Shenipov said that in the camp in Drohobych there was a beautiful captive girl named Luda. “Captain Stroyer, the camp commandant, tried to rape her, but she resisted, after which the German soldiers, called by the captain, tied Luda to a bed, and in this position Stroyer raped her and then shot her.”
In Stalag 346 in Kremenchug at the beginning of 1942, the German camp doctor Orland gathered 50 female doctors, paramedics, and nurses, stripped them and “ordered our doctors to examine them from the genitals to see if they were suffering from venereal diseases. He conducted the external inspection himself. He chose 3 young girls from them and took them to “serve” him. German soldiers and officers came for the women examined by doctors. Few of these women managed to avoid rape.

Women soldiers of the Red Army who were captured while trying to escape the encirclement near Nevel, summer 1941.




Judging by their haggard faces, they had to endure a lot even before being captured.

Here the “Hans” are clearly mocking and posing - so that they themselves can quickly experience all the “joys” of captivity!! And the unfortunate girl, who, it seems, has already had her fill of hardships at the front, has no illusions about her prospects in captivity...

In the left photo (September 1941, again near Kiev -?), on the contrary, the girls (one of whom even managed to keep a watch on her wrist in captivity; an unprecedented thing, watches are the optimal camp currency!) do not look desperate or exhausted. The captured Red Army soldiers are smiling... A staged photo, or did you really get a relatively humane camp commandant who ensured a tolerable existence?

Camp guards from among former prisoners of war and camp police were especially cynical about women prisoners of war. They raped their captives or forced them to cohabit with them under threat of death. In Stalag No. 337, not far from Baranovichi, about 400 women prisoners of war were kept in a specially fenced area with barbed wire. In December 1967, at a meeting of the military tribunal of the Belarusian Military District, the former chief of camp security, A.M. Yarosh, admitted that his subordinates raped prisoners in the women’s block.
Women prisoners were also kept in the Millerovo prisoner of war camp. The commandant of the women's barracks was a German woman from the Volga region. The fate of the girls languishing in this barracks was terrible:
“The police often looked into this barracks. Every day, for half a liter, the commandant gave any girl her choice for two hours. The policeman could have taken her to his barracks. They lived two to a room. These two hours he could use her as a thing, abuse her, mock her, do whatever he wanted.
Once, during the evening roll call, the police chief himself came, they gave him a girl for the whole night, the German woman complained to him that these “bastards” are reluctant to go to your policemen. He advised with a grin: “And for those who don’t want to go, arrange a “red fireman.” The girl was stripped naked, crucified, tied with ropes on the floor. Then they took a large red hot pepper, turned it inside out and inserted it into the girl’s vagina. They left it in this position for up to half an hour. Screaming was forbidden. Many girls had their lips bitten - they were holding back a scream, and after such punishment they could not move for a long time.
The commandant, who was called a cannibal behind her back, enjoyed unlimited rights over captured girls and came up with other sophisticated bullying. For example, “self-punishment”. There is a special stake, which is made crosswise with a height of 60 centimeters. The girl must undress naked, insert a stake into the anus, hold on to the crosspiece with her hands, and place her feet on a stool and hold on like this for three minutes. Those who could not stand it had to repeat it all over again.
We learned about what was going on in the women's camp from the girls themselves, who came out of the barracks to sit on a bench for ten minutes. Also, the policemen boastfully talked about their exploits and the resourceful German woman.”

Women doctors of the Red Army who were captured worked in camp hospitals in many prisoner of war camps (mainly in transit and transit camps).


There may also be a German field hospital in the front line - in the background you can see part of the body of a car equipped for transporting the wounded, and one of the German soldiers in the photo has a bandaged hand.

Infirmary barracks of the prisoner of war camp in Krasnoarmeysk (probably October 1941):


In the foreground is a non-commissioned officer of the German field gendarmerie with a characteristic badge on his chest.

Women prisoners of war were held in many camps. According to eyewitnesses, they made an extremely pathetic impression. It was especially difficult for them in the conditions of camp life: they, like no one else, suffered from the lack of basic sanitary conditions.
K. Kromiadi, a member of the labor distribution commission, visited the Sedlice camp in the fall of 1941 and talked with the women prisoners. One of them, a female military doctor, admitted: “... everything is bearable, except for the lack of linen and water, which does not allow us to change clothes or wash ourselves.”
A group of female medical workers captured in the Kiev pocket in September 1941 was held in Vladimir-Volynsk - Oflag camp No. 365 "Nord".
Nurses Olga Lenkovskaya and Taisiya Shubina were captured in October 1941 in the Vyazemsky encirclement. First, the women were kept in a camp in Gzhatsk, then in Vyazma. In March, as the Red Army approached, the Germans transferred captured women to Smolensk to Dulag No. 126. There were few captives in the camp. They were kept in a separate barracks, communication with men was prohibited. From April to July 1942, the Germans released all women with “the condition of free settlement in Smolensk.”

Crimea, summer 1942. Very young Red Army soldiers, just captured by the Wehrmacht, and among them is the same young girl soldier:


Most likely, she is not a doctor: her hands are clean, she did not bandage the wounded in a recent battle.

After the fall of Sevastopol in July 1942, about 300 female medical workers were captured: doctors, nurses, and orderlies. First, they were sent to Slavuta, and in February 1943, having gathered about 600 women prisoners of war in the camp, they were loaded into wagons and taken to the West. In Rivne, everyone was lined up, and another search for Jews began. One of the prisoners, Kazachenko, walked around and showed: “this is a Jew, this is a commissar, this is a partisan.” Those who were separated from the general group were shot. Those who remained were loaded back into the wagons, men and women together. The prisoners themselves divided the carriage into two parts: in one - women, in the other - men. We recovered through a hole in the floor.
Along the way, the captured men were dropped off at different stations, and the women were brought to the city of Zoes on February 23, 1943. They lined them up and announced that they would work in military factories. Evgenia Lazarevna Klemm was also in the group of prisoners. Jewish. A history teacher at the Odessa Pedagogical Institute who pretended to be a Serbian. She enjoyed special authority among women prisoners of war. E.L. Klemm, on behalf of everyone, stated in German: “We are prisoners of war and will not work in military factories.” In response, they began to beat everyone, and then drove them into a small hall, in which it was impossible to sit down or move due to the cramped conditions. They stood like that for almost a day. And then the recalcitrants were sent to Ravensbrück. This women's camp was created in 1939. The first prisoners of Ravensbrück were prisoners from Germany, and then from European countries occupied by the Germans. All the prisoners had their heads shaved and dressed in striped (blue and gray striped) dresses and unlined jackets. Underwear - shirt and panties. There were no bras or belts. In October, they were given a pair of old stockings for six months, but not everyone was able to wear them until spring. Shoes, as in most concentration camps, are wooden lasts.
The barracks were divided into two parts, connected by a corridor: a day room, in which there were tables, stools and small wall cabinets, and a sleeping room - three-tier bunks with a narrow passage between them. One cotton blanket was given to two prisoners. In a separate room lived the blockhouse - the head of the barracks. In the corridor there was a washroom and toilet.

A convoy of Soviet women prisoners of war arrived at Stalag 370, Simferopol (summer or early autumn 1942):




The prisoners carry all their meager belongings; under the hot Crimean sun, many of them tied their heads with scarves “like women” and took off their heavy boots.

Ibid., Stalag 370, Simferopol:


The prisoners worked mainly in the camp's sewing factories. Ravensbrück produced 80% of all uniforms for the SS troops, as well as camp clothing for both men and women.
The first Soviet women prisoners of war - 536 people - arrived at the camp on February 28, 1943. First, everyone was sent to a bathhouse, and then they were given camp striped clothes with a red triangle with the inscription: “SU” - Sowjet Union.
Even before the arrival of the Soviet women, the SS men spread a rumor throughout the camp that a gang of female killers would be brought from Russia. Therefore, they were placed in a special block, fenced with barbed wire.
Every day the prisoners got up at 4 am for verification, which sometimes lasted several hours. Then they worked for 12-13 hours in sewing workshops or in the camp infirmary.
Breakfast consisted of ersatz coffee, which women used mainly for washing their hair, since there was no warm water. For this purpose, coffee was collected and washed in turns.
Women whose hair had survived began to use combs that they made themselves. Frenchwoman Micheline Morel recalls that “Russian girls, using factory machines, cut wooden planks or metal plates and polished them so that they became quite acceptable combs. For a wooden comb they gave half a portion of bread, for a metal one - a whole portion.”
For lunch, the prisoners received half a liter of gruel and 2-3 boiled potatoes. In the evening, for five people they received a small loaf of bread mixed with sawdust and again half a liter of gruel.

One of the prisoners, S. Müller, testifies in her memoirs about the impression Soviet women made on the prisoners of Ravensbrück:
“...one Sunday in April we learned that Soviet prisoners refused to carry out some order, citing the fact that, according to the Geneva Convention of the Red Cross, they should be treated as prisoners of war. For the camp authorities this was unheard of insolence. For the entire first half of the day they were forced to march along Lagerstraße (the main “street” of the camp - A. Sh.) and were deprived of lunch.
But the women from the Red Army bloc (that’s what we called the barracks where they lived) decided to turn this punishment into a demonstration of their strength. I remember someone shouted in our block: “Look, the Red Army is marching!” We ran out of the barracks and rushed to Lagerstraße. And what did we see?
It was unforgettable! Five hundred Soviet women, ten in a row, kept in alignment, walked as if in a parade, taking their steps. Their steps, like the beat of a drum, beat rhythmically along Lagerstraße. The entire column moved as one. Suddenly a woman on the right flank of the first row gave the command to start singing. She counted down: “One, two, three!” And they sang:

Get up, huge country,
Get up for mortal combat...

I had heard them sing this song in a low voice in their barracks before. But here it sounded like a call to fight, like faith in an early victory.
Then they started singing about Moscow.
The Nazis were puzzled: the punishment of humiliated prisoners of war by marching turned into a demonstration of their strength and inflexibility...
The SS failed to leave Soviet women without lunch. The political prisoners took care of food for them in advance.”

Soviet women prisoners of war more than once amazed their enemies and fellow prisoners with their unity and spirit of resistance. One day, 12 Soviet girls were included in the list of prisoners intended to be sent to Majdanek, to the gas chambers. When the SS men came to the barracks to pick up the women, their comrades refused to hand them over. The SS managed to find them. “The remaining 500 people lined up in groups of five and went to the commandant. The translator was E.L. Klemm. The commandant drove those who came into the block, threatening them with execution, and they began a hunger strike.”
In February 1944, about 60 women prisoners of war from Ravensbrück were transferred to the concentration camp in Barth to the Heinkel aircraft plant. The girls refused to work there too. Then they were lined up in two rows and ordered to strip down to their shirts and remove their wooden stocks. They stood in the cold for many hours, every hour the matron came and offered coffee and a bed to anyone who agreed to go to work. Then the three girls were thrown into a punishment cell. Two of them died from pneumonia.
Constant bullying, hard labor, and hunger led to suicide. In February 1945, the defender of Sevastopol, military doctor Zinaida Aridova, threw herself at the wire.
And yet the prisoners believed in liberation, and this faith sounded in a song composed by an unknown author:

Heads up, Russian girls!
Over your head, be brave!
We don't have long to endure
The nightingale will fly in the spring...
And it will open the doors to freedom for us,
Takes a striped dress off your shoulders
And heal deep wounds,
He will wipe the tears from his swollen eyes.
Heads up, Russian girls!
Be Russian everywhere, everywhere!
It won't be long to wait, it won't be long -
And we will be on Russian soil.

Former prisoner Germaine Tillon, in her memoirs, gave a unique description of the Russian women prisoners of war who ended up in Ravensbrück: “...their cohesion was explained by the fact that they went through army school even before captivity. They were young, strong, neat, honest, and also rather rude and uneducated. There were also intellectuals (doctors, teachers) among them - friendly and attentive. In addition, we liked their rebellion, their unwillingness to obey the Germans."

Women prisoners of war were also sent to other concentration camps. Auschwitz prisoner A. Lebedev recalls that paratroopers Ira Ivannikova, Zhenya Saricheva, Victorina Nikitina, doctor Nina Kharlamova and nurse Klavdiya Sokolova were kept in the women's camp.
In January 1944, for refusing to sign an agreement to work in Germany and transfer to the category of civilian workers, more than 50 female prisoners of war from the camp in Chelm were sent to Majdanek. Among them were doctor Anna Nikiforova, military paramedics Efrosinya Tsepennikova and Tonya Leontyeva, infantry lieutenant Vera Matyutskaya.
The navigator of the air regiment, Anna Egorova, whose plane was shot down over Poland, shell-shocked, with a burnt face, was captured and kept in the Kyustrin camp.
Despite the death that reigned in captivity, despite the fact that any relationship between male and female prisoners of war was prohibited, where they worked together, most often in camp infirmaries, love sometimes arose, giving new life. As a rule, in such rare cases, the German hospital management did not interfere with childbirth. After the birth of the child, the mother-prisoner of war was either transferred to the status of a civilian, released from the camp and released to the place of residence of her relatives in the occupied territory, or returned with the child to the camp.
Thus, from the documents of the Stalag camp infirmary No. 352 in Minsk, it is known that “nurse Sindeva Alexandra, who arrived at the First City Hospital for childbirth on 23.2.42, left with the child for the Rollbahn prisoner of war camp.”

Probably one of the last photographs of Soviet women soldiers captured by the Germans, 1943 or 1944:


Both were awarded medals, the girl on the left - “For Courage” (dark edging on the block), the second one may also have “BZ”. There is an opinion that these are pilots, but - IMHO - it is unlikely: both have “clean” shoulder straps of privates.

In 1944, attitudes towards women prisoners of war became harsher. They are subjected to new tests. In accordance with the general provisions on the testing and selection of Soviet prisoners of war, on March 6, 1944, the OKW issued a special order “On the treatment of Russian women prisoners of war.” This document stated that Soviet women held in prisoner-of-war camps should be subject to inspection by the local Gestapo office in the same way as all newly arriving Soviet prisoners of war. If, as a result of a police check, the political unreliability of female prisoners of war is revealed, they should be released from captivity and handed over to the police.
Based on this order, the head of the Security Service and SD on April 11, 1944 issued an order to send unreliable female prisoners of war to the nearest concentration camp. After being delivered to the concentration camp, such women were subjected to so-called “special treatment” - liquidation. This is how Vera Panchenko-Pisanetskaya, the eldest of a group of seven hundred girl prisoners of war who worked at a military plant in the city of Gentin, died. The plant produced a lot of defective products, and during the investigation it turned out that Vera was in charge of the sabotage. In August 1944 she was sent to Ravensbrück and hanged there in the autumn of 1944.
In the Stutthof concentration camp in 1944, 5 Russian senior officers were killed, including a female major. They were taken to the crematorium - the place of execution. First they brought the men and shot them one by one. Then - a woman. According to a Pole who worked in the crematorium and understood Russian, the SS man, who spoke Russian, mocked the woman, forcing her to follow his commands: “right, left, around...” After that, the SS man asked her: “Why did you do that? ” I never found out what she did. She replied that she did it for her homeland. After that, the SS man slapped him in the face and said: “This is for your homeland.” The Russian woman spat in his eyes and replied: “And this is for your homeland.” There was confusion. Two SS men ran up to the woman and began to push her alive into the furnace for burning the corpses. She resisted. Several more SS men ran up. The officer shouted: “Fuck her!” The oven door was open and the heat caused the woman's hair to catch fire. Despite the fact that the woman resisted vigorously, she was placed on a cart for burning corpses and pushed into the oven. All the prisoners working in the crematorium saw this.” Unfortunately, the name of this heroine remains unknown.
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