Massacre of Grischino
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The Massacre of Grischino was a war crime committed by members of the Red Army in February 1943 in the eastern Ukrainian places Krasnoarmeyskoye, Postyschewo and Grischino. In which a total of 596 prisoners of war, nurses, construction workers and female communicationpersonal (Nachrichtenhelferinnen) to had perished.[1] The Wehrmacht Untersuchungsstelle also known as WuSt (Wehrmacht criminal investigating authority), announced that among the victims had been 406 members of the Wehrmacht, 58 members of the Organisation Todt (including two Danish nationals), 89 Italian soldiers, 9 Romanian soldiers, 4 Hungarian soldiers, 15 German civil officials, 7 German civilian workers and 8 Ukrainian volunteers.
The places were ovverun by the Soviet 4th Guards Tank Corps on the night of 10 on the 11th February 1943.After the reconquest by the 5th SS - Panzer-Division " Wiking " with the support of 333 Infantry Division and the 7th Panzer Division on 18 February 1943 the Wehrmacht soldiers discovered numerous deaths. Many of the bodies were horribly mutilated, ears and noses cut off and genital organs amputated and stuffed into their mouths. Breasts of some of the nurses were cut off, the women being brutally raped. A German military judge who was at the scene told in an interview during in 1970s that he personally saw a female body with her legs spread-eagled and a broomstick rammed into her genitals. In the cellar of the main train station around 120 Germans were herded into a large storage room and then mowed down with machine guns. While a large part of the investigation file is lost, some investigation evidence remained in a Foreign Office Brochure right now stored in the German federal state archiv (Bundesarchiv).
On 21 March 1983 the West German Radio (WDR) beamed a documentary on soviet war crimes in the east from the files of the Wehrmacht investigative authority from which also showed footage of the propaganda troops of the Wehrmacht on the massacre of Grichino and still living witnesses of the massacre had a chance to speak.[2]
Film
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2-wLCQvpA (in German)
References
Literature
- The warfare from the perspective of the Soviet Union. In : Horst Boog, Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffmann (ed. and authors) : The German Reich and the Second World War, 10 vols, Volume 4, The attack on the Soviet Union, German publishing house, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3 - 421-06098-3, 790 pp.
- German and Kalmyks, 1942–1945. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 1974, ISBN 3-7930-0173-3, pp. 107ff.
- Alfred de Zayas : The Wehrmacht investigative body. German investigations into Allied violations of international law during the Second World War. 7 Edition, Universitas Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8004-1051-6.