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- During the six months of occupation (August–February 1943), over 15,660 Jews were executed in almost fifty different cities and villages throughout Krasnodar krai.
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Oct 6, 2020 · By studying the executions in Krasnodar krai, we can observe geographic and time details. The data show that three-quarters of the victims were killed within the first two months of the occupation, in August (over 8,500 victims) and September (over 4,100 victims) 1942.
- Abstract
- The Institutional Framework: Investigative Committees and Jurisprudence
- The Trial in Krasnodar
- The Krasnodar Trial as Reflected in The Soviet Media
- Reasons For The Soviet Military Tribunals
In her heroic and tragic personal memoir Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of the famous poet Osip Mandelstam, rejected the possibility that researchers could ever unearth the truth regarding the Soviet show trials that were staged during the Great Terror. She asked, “How will the historians ever get at the truth if every minute grain of...
On June 22, 1941, Hitler and the German high command launched Operation Barbarossa, the single largest land operation in history. Three million German troops and some 500,000 allied troops squared off against two million Soviet troops along a front that stretched two thousand miles. The devastation that ensued is unparalleled in human history: betw...
On the morning of July 14, 1943, the court in the Northern Caucasus city of Krasnodar was packed with notable citizens anxiously awaiting the beginning of the much-publicized trial of eleven men accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the German occupation of the city. Notably, the defendants were not German officers but Soviet citizens. Sev...
Coverage of the Krasnodar Trial both within and outside the Soviet Union amounted to a highly organized public relations campaign. The highest levels of the Soviet regime, including Stalin himself, received daily reports on the progress of the trials as well as estimates of the number of Soviet citizens attending the public executions.63 Why they w...
In many respects, the “Great Patriotic War” was a watershed not only in the evolution of the geopolitical boundaries of the Soviet Union, but also in the redefinition of the country's ideological identity. In the immediate aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet leadership had only one clear-cut objective: to ensure that the country survived....
- Ilya Bourtman
- 2008
Summary: Examines the German occupation of Krasnodar during World War II, the war crimes trial that took place there in 1943, and the subsequent public executions of Russians who collaborated with the Nazis in murdering many of Krasnodar's Jews. Utilizes German and Soviet newsreel footage, the testimony of war crimes defendants, and ...
Jan 28, 2024 · The Nazis, with the help of the head of the Jewish community, rounded up all the Jews in the city of Krasnodar, executed them and buried their bodies. In Rokytne, they gathered 1,600 Jews and ...
In the Russian major city of Krasnodar a memorial to the »victims of the fascists« commemorates amongst others the murdered Jews of the city. Nearby is a part of the once much larger Jewish cemetery. Some Jews who were murdered during the German occupation in 1942/43 are buried there. Krasnodar, undated, Historical view, public domain.
Russia. In the Caucasus region of southern Russia, German troops crossed the Kuban River near Krasnodar. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai | TH, CPC]
Units of the German Wehrmacht occupied Krasnodar between August 12, 1942 and February 12, 1943. German forces, including the Einsatzgruppen (mobile death squads), killed approximately 7,000 civilians, including Jews and Communists. Shooting, hanging, burning and gas vans were used.
