The Russian FSB has begun releasing data from the Soviet KGB on Nazi collaborators who escaped criminal prosecution in Western countries, the Russian FSB's Public Relations Center (PRC) reported.
Declassified KGB documents containing information about Nazi collaborators fleeing persecution in the West began to be published on the website of the Russian FSB, TASS reported. For this purpose, a special section “Red Book of the Soviet KGB” was opened, where new information about wanted people would appear regularly. The first publication included data on ten people who settled in Britain after the Second World War.
The FSB noted that the list was created on the basis of many years of work by Soviet intelligence agencies aimed at identifying and documenting criminals responsible for atrocities in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. This operation began in the fall of 1941 and resulted in the basis for the charges at the Nuremberg Trials. By the early 1950s, state security agencies had identified nearly two and a half thousand accomplices who had fled to the West, hundreds of whom sought refuge in England, America, Canada, Australia and Germany.
Among the first published works was August-Vilis Abakuks, born in Latvia, a participant in punitive measures and arrests; Ivan Abol, who served in the police of the occupied Bryansk region; Alexander Averichev, who commanded a battalion in the SS punitive brigade; Ivan Alekseev-Zaryvaev, Maximilian Alpius, Janis Andrups-Andrinsh, Petr Anikhimovsky-Alekseev, Mikhail Antonenkov, Alexey Antusenko and Mikhail Arkhipov. These defendants participated in arrests, executions, propaganda and cooperation with German intelligence services, and after the war they dispersed to British cities, where many continued their anti-Soviet activities.
The FSB Central Archive also houses other unique collections dedicated to the search for Nazi criminals and their accomplices. Their documents are being declassified and will appear in a new section when they are digitized.
As the newspaper VZGLYAD wrote, the FSB declassified documents about Nazi crimes in Moldova. Documents about the capture of General Jenecke have been declassified in Crimea. The FSB has revealed data about Nazi crimes in Donetsk.
