FLE PROCES DE KHARKOV Acte d'accusation Plaidoiries et Verdit - Charkow trial indictment and verdict - the transcript of the investigation against four Nazi war criminals who were complicit in mass murder in Charkow and the region, and the verdict in the first trial held against Nazi war criminals in the city of Charkow, before the War Council of The Ukrainian front. Rare French edition. Paris, [1944].
Excerpts from the indictment documenting the atrocities committed by the Germans - the mass executions, the deportation of thousands of citizens from their homes, looting, and destruction. A detailed transcript of the interrogation of the Nazi commander Retzlaw appears in which he was also asked about the period in which he studied the Nazi doctrine: "High officials of the Gestapo gave us lectures that explained to us the mission of the German people as representatives of the superior race, and the tasks assigned to us to establish The new European order" he explained. In his interrogation, he admitted: "I personally participated in the destruction of the Soviet people", and describes the methods by which he and his command executed the people. To the prosecutor's question: "Tell the court everything you know about the gas trucks" he details the manner in which the Nazis murdered civilians using gas trucks, and his own part in this horrific murder, when at the end they burned the bodies of the victims. To the prosecutor's question: "Why did you burn the bodies?" He replied: "So that this method of execution would remain secret". Below is the transcript of the interrogation of Captain Langheld, who tried to claim in his defense that the crimes he committed were as a result of orders given to him from above. The third of those interrogated was Lt. Ritz, who described in his investigation the crimes he committed in the Sonderkommando unit, and accused Himmler and Rosenberg of operating a massive propaganda that influenced the German soldiers to believe in the superiority of the Aryan race, and the inferiority of the other races. The fourth criminal who was investigated and the investigation is presented here is Boulanov, who was a soldier in the Gestapo from October 1941 to May 1943 and participated in several mass executions. Below are the statements of witnesses who saw the executions with their own eyes and document the events, and finally the indictment, the reasons, and the sentence of the four who were executed by hanging on December 19 in front of some 50,000 spectators.
Before the arrival of the German army in 1941, most of the residents of Charkow were evacuated to Siberia and Uzbekistan during 1941, and according to the German census in 1941, only 10,271 Jews remained in the city, most of whom died in Drobytsky Yar between December 1941 and January 1942, about 400 people, mostly of an advanced age, among them academics and cultural figures were burned alive in the synagogue on Grazhdanskaya Street. In 1943, after the end of the occupation of the city, the trial was held in which Nazi commanders were accused of killing Soviet citizens, and were executed.
Rare. Does not appear in the world catalog of libraries world cat.
12 p. 21 cm. Very Good Condition.
