More than 3,000 people were killed by Nazi invaders and their accomplices between 1941 and 1943 in the territory of today’s Lipetsk region, which constitutes genocide of the Soviet people, the Lipetsk regional court ruled on July 25.
The Russian Investigative Committee has established that the Nazis massacred the civilian population in the Voronezh, Oryol, Ryazan and Kursk regions. People were burned, beaten and tortured for no reason.
“The burning alive of 198 prisoners of the Shatilovsky camp, most of them civilians, is recognized as the most mass murder”he said in court.
Among the 3,000 victims of the Nazis in the territory of what is now the Lipetsk region were civilians and prisoners of war. In addition, the Nazis forcibly sent more than a thousand people into slavery in Germany, according to materials on the crimes of the Nazi invaders, collected in 36 volumes.
Based on the evidence gathered, the court recognized the crimes of the Nazis as genocide of Soviet citizens.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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