Prisoners of the concentration camp Gardelegen (Gardelegen), killed by guards shortly before the liberation of the camp.

The bodies of prisoners who died in the train on the way to the Dachau concentration camp.

A pile of corpses of prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

A pile of corpses of prisoners in the crematorium of the Dachau concentration camp. The bodies were discovered by members of the US 7th Army.

By order of the Americans, captured German soldiers removed all the corpses of prisoners from the Lambach concentration camp in Austria. They were buried in the forest near the camp.

An American soldier at the body of a Belgian boy killed by the Germans in Stavelot. The bodies of other executed civilians are visible in the background.

From the testimony of the Belgian literature teacher Van der Essen at the Nuremberg trials:

“As for the first fact, that is, crimes committed by entire military formations, in order not to abuse the attention of the Tribunal, I will simply give a very typical example. This is an event that took place in Stavelot, where approximately 140 people, of whom there were 36 women and 22 children, the eldest of whom was 14 years old and the youngest 4 years old, were brutally killed by German units belonging to the SS Panzer divisions.

These were the Hohenstaufen division and the SS security division Adolf Hitler.

The corpse of a prisoner of the Leipzig-Tekla concentration camp on barbed wire. Leipzig-Thekla was a branch or "sub-camp" of Buchenwald.

A French prisoner of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp on the floor of a barrack among dead comrades. The picture was taken immediately after the camp was liberated by the Allies. Camp Mittelbau-Dora (Mittelbau - Dora) was a division or "sub-camp" of the infamous Buchenwald. It was a labor camp, its prisoners worked, among other things, at the Mittelwerk plant, where V-2 rockets were produced.

Location: near Nordhausen, Germany.

Punishers shoot Jewish women and children near the village of Mizoch, Rivne region. Those who show signs of life are killed in cold blood. Before being executed, the victims were ordered to remove all clothing.

The family of a Soviet collective farmer, killed on the day of the retreat of the German troops.

A German boy walks along a dirt road, on the side of which lie the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

Two Ukrainian SS members, known as "Askaris" ("Askaris"), look at the bodies of murdered women and children during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Bagerovsky anti-tank ditch near Kerch. Local residents mourn the people killed by the Germans - civilians: women, children, the elderly.

A fragment from the “Act of the Extraordinary State Commission on the atrocities of the Germans in the city of Kerch”, presented at the Nuremberg trials under the title “Document USSR-63”: “... The Nazis chose an anti-tank ditch near the village of Bagerovo for three days, where they were brought by car for three days entire families of people doomed to death. Upon the arrival of the Red Army in Kerch, in January 1942, when examining the Bagerovsky ditch, it was found that for a kilometer in length, 4 meters wide, 2 meters deep, it was overflowing with the corpses of women, children, old people and teenagers. Near the moat were frozen pools of blood. Children's hats, toys, ribbons, torn off buttons, gloves, bottles with nipples, boots, galoshes, along with stumps of arms and legs and other parts of the body, were also lying there. All this was spattered with blood and brains. Fascist scoundrels shot the defenseless population with explosive bullets ... "

In total, about 7 thousand corpses were found in the Bagerovsky ditch.

Soviet child next to the murdered mother. Concentration camp for the civilian population "Ozarichi". Belarus, the town of Ozarichi, Domanovichsky district, Polesye region.

Execution of a Jewish family in Ivangorod (Ukraine)

A German woman from the local population walks past the exhumed corpses of 800 Slavic workers killed by the SS. Such activities were carried out by the Allies in order to make the German population aware of the crimes of their Nazi leaders.
Neighborhood of the German city of Namering.

One of the 150 victims among the prisoners who died in the concentration camp in Gardelegen. The man tried to escape, but died from fire and smoke.

The Nazi, before the arrival of Soviet troops, shot his family and committed suicide on the streets of Vienna.

Yevgeny Khaldei: “I went to the park near the parliament building to film the passing columns of soldiers. And I saw this picture. On the bench sat a woman, killed by two shots - in the head and neck, next to her a dead teenager of about fifteen and a girl. A little further away lay the corpse of the father of the family. He had a gold NSDAP badge on his lapel, and a revolver was lying next to him. (...) A watchman ran up from the parliament building:

It is he, he did, not Russian soldiers. Came at 6 am. I saw him and his family from the basement window. There is not a soul on the street. He pushed the benches together, ordered the woman to sit down, and ordered the children to do the same. I didn't understand what he was going to do. And then he shot the mother and son. The girl resisted, then he laid her on a bench and shot her too. He stepped aside, looked at the result and shot himself.

Nazis shoot civilians in Kaunas

"The most famous photograph that no one has ever seen" is how Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his picture of one of the victims of the World Trade Center, who jumped out of the window to her death on September 11

"On that day, which was captured on camera and on film more than any other day in history," Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, "the only taboo by common consent was pictures of people jumping out of windows." Five years later, Richard Drew's Falling Man remains a terrible artifact of that day that should have changed everything but didn't.

Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old photographer (Associated Press) from New York, received a phone call and was asked to be at a certain intersection in Saigon the next morning, as something very important is about to happen.

He went there with a reporter from the New York Times. soon a car drove up, several Buddhist monks got out of it. Among them is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in a lotus position with a box of matches in his hands, while the rest began to pour gasoline on him. Thich Quang Duc struck a match and turned into a living torch. Unlike the weeping crowd watching him burn, he didn't utter a sound or move. Thich Quang Duc wrote a letter to the then head of the Vietnamese government asking him to stop the repression of Buddhists, stop the detention of monks and give them the right to practice and spread their religion, but received no answer.

Take a closer look at this photo. This is one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The baby's tiny hand reached out from the womb to squeeze the surgeon's finger. By the way, the child is 21 weeks from conception, the age when he can still be legally aborted. The tiny pen in the photo belongs to a baby who was due to be born on December 28 last year. The photo was taken during an operation in America.

The first reaction is to recoil in horror. It looks like a close-up of some terrible incident. And then you notice, in the very center of the photo, a tiny hand grasping the surgeon's finger.

The child is literally grasping for life. Therefore, this is one of the most remarkable photographs in medicine and a record of one of the most extraordinary operations in the world. It shows a 21-week-old fetus in the womb just before the spinal surgery needed to save the baby from severe brain damage. The operation was performed through a tiny incision in the wall of the uterus and this is the youngest patient. At this time, the mother may choose to have an abortion.

The death of the boy Al-Dura, filmed by a reporter for a French television station, as he is shot to death by Israeli soldiers while in the arms of his father.

The portrait of "shahid" al-Dura has spread in stamps, books, songs and posters. But Jewish activists in France, who have questioned the authenticity of the pictures, are leading a stubborn campaign that has been going on for several years, demanding that French television also reveal parts of the footage that did not make it to the broadcast, clips showing Palestinians practicing to stage a shooting incident, as a result which al-Dura was allegedly killed.

By the early summer of 1994, Kevin Carter (1960-1994) was at the height of his fame. He had just received the Pulitzer Prize, job offers from famous magazines poured in one after another. “Everyone congratulates me,” he wrote to his parents, “I can't wait to meet you and show you my trophy. This is the highest recognition of my work, which I did not even dare to dream of.

Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph "Famine in Sudan" taken in early spring 1993. On this day, Carter flew to Sudan specifically to shoot scenes of hunger in a small village. Tired of shooting people who died of starvation, he left the village in a field overgrown with small bushes and suddenly heard a quiet cry. Looking around, he saw a little girl lying on the ground, apparently dying of hunger. He wanted to take a picture of her, but suddenly a vulture vulture landed a few steps away. Very carefully, trying not to startle the bird, Kevin chose the best position and took a picture. After that, he waited another twenty minutes, hoping that the bird would spread its wings and give him the opportunity to get a better shot. But the damned bird did not move, and in the end, he spat and drove it away. In the meantime, the girl apparently gained strength and went - more precisely crawled - further. And Kevin sat down near the tree and cried. He suddenly terribly wanted to hug his daughter ...

A settler resists an Israeli army officer, Amon outpost, West Bank, February 1, 2006

A Jewish settlement confronts Israeli police as they enforce a Supreme Court decision to demolish 9 houses in the outpost of Amon settlement, West Bank, February 1. Residents, joined by thousands of other protesters, erected barbed wire barriers to protect their homes and clashed with police. More than 200 people were injured, including 80 policemen. After hours of confrontation, the settlers were driven out and bulldozers arrived and began demolition.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl is the famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of a young refugee, her whole family died, and before getting to the camp, the girl made a two-week journey in the mountains. After being published in June 1985, this photograph becomes a National Geographic icon. Since then, this image has been used everywhere - from tattoos to rugs, which turned the photo into one of the most replicated photos in the world.

Stanley Forman/Boston Herald, USA. July 22, 1975, Boston. A girl and a woman fall trying to escape the fire

"Unknown Rebel" on Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widner, shows a protester who single-handedly held off a tank column for half an hour.

Poland - a girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the blackboard. 1948. © David Seymour

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (often referred to simply as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that took place in the United States of America. According to the official version, the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda is responsible for these attacks.

On the morning of that day, nineteen terrorists, allegedly related to Al-Qaeda, divided into four groups, hijacked four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member who completed basic flight training. The invaders sent two of these aircraft into the towers of the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 11 into WTC 1, and United Airlines Flight 175 into WTC 2, causing both towers to collapse, causing severe damage to surrounding structures.

Niagara Falls is frozen. Photo from 1911

Mike Wells, UK. April 1980 Karamoja region, Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary.

White and color photograph by Elliott Erwitt 1950

Spencer Platt, USA (Spencer Platt), Getty Images
Young Lebanese drive through a devastated area in Beirut, August 15, 2006.


Young Lebanese people drive down the street in Haret Hreik in the bombarded suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 15. For almost five weeks, Israel attacked this part of the city and other cities in southern Lebanon in an operation against Hezbollah fighters. After the truce announced on August 14, thousands of Lebanese began to gradually return to their homes. According to the Lebanese government, 15,000 residential buildings and 900 commercial firms were affected.

The photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also completely changed American attitudes towards what was happening in Vietnam.

Despite the obviousness of the image, in fact, the photograph is not as unambiguous as it seemed to ordinary Americans, filled with sympathy for the executed. The fact is that the man in handcuffs is the captain of the Viet Cong "revenge warriors", and on this day many unarmed civilians were shot dead by him and his henchmen. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured left, has been haunted by his past all his life: he was refused treatment at an Australian military hospital, after moving to the US, he faced a massive campaign calling for his immediate deportation, the restaurant he opened in Virginia, every day was attacked by vandals. "We know who you are!" - this inscription haunted the general of the army all his life.

Lynching (1930) Lawrence Beitler

This shot was taken in 1930 when a mob of 10,000 whites hanged two black men for raping a white woman and killing her boyfriend. The mob "released" the criminals from prison to be lynched. A striking contrast is the joyful faces of people as a background for torn corpses.

At the end of April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. The story showed photographs that were published in The New Yorker a few days later. This became the loudest scandal around the presence of Americans in Iraq.

In early May 2004, the leadership of the US Armed Forces admitted that some of the methods of torture were not in accordance with the Geneva Convention and announced their readiness to publicly apologize.

According to the testimony of a number of prisoners, American soldiers raped them, rode them, forced them to fish food from prison toilets. In particular, the inmates said: “They made us walk on all fours like dogs and yelp. We had to bark like dogs, and if you didn't bark, then you were beaten in the face without any pity. After that, they left us in the cells, took away the mattresses, poured water on the floor and forced us to sleep in this slush without removing the hoods from our heads. And all this was constantly photographed”, “One American said that he would rape me. He drew a woman on my back and forced me to stand in a shameful position, to hold my own scrotum in my hands.

Burial of an unknown child.

On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal was hit by the largest man-made disaster in human history. A giant poisonous cloud, released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide factory, covered the city, killing 3,000 people that same night, and 15,000 more in the coming month. In total, more than 150,000 people were affected by the release of toxic waste, and this does not include children born after 1984.

Nilsson gained international fame in 1965 when LIFE magazine published 16 pages of photographs of a human embryo.

These photographs were immediately reproduced also in Stern, Paris Match, The Sunday Times and other magazines. In the same year, Nilsson's book of photographs, A Child is Born, was published, selling eight million copies in the first few days. This book went through several reprints and is still one of the best-selling illustrated books in the history of this kind of album. Nilson managed to obtain photographs of the human fetus as early as 1957, but they were not yet spectacular enough to be shown to the general public.

Photograph of the Loch Ness monster. Ian Wetherell 1934

The photo was taken on September 29, 1932 on the 69th floor during the last months of construction of Rockefeller Center.

Surgeon Jay Vacanti of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is working with microengineer Jeffrey Borenstein to develop a technique for growing artificial livers. In 1997, he managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.

The development of a technique that allows culturing the liver is extremely relevant. In the UK alone, there are 100 people on the waiting list for transplants, and according to the British Liver Trust, most patients die before they get a transplant.

Freezing rain... Sounds harmless enough, but nature often throws up unpleasant surprises.

Freezing rain can form a thick crust of ice on any object, destroying even giant power lines. And they can create incredibly beautiful works of art of natural origin.
The photo shows the effects of freezing rain in Switzerland.

A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a POW prison.
Jean-Marc Bouju/AP, France.
March 31, 2003. An Najaf, Iraq.

Dolly is a female sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from the cell of another adult creature.

The experiment was set up in the UK (Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland), where she was born on July 5, 1996. The press announced her birth only 7 months later - on February 22, 1997. After living for 6 years, Dolly the sheep died on February 14, 2003.

The 1967 Patterson-Gimlin documentary of a female Bigfoot, the American Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of living relic hominids on earth, referred to in hominology by the term "homins".

At the same time, there are a fair amount of fuzzy, blurry images that are not suitable for scientific analysis. This is a testament to how difficult these primates are to photograph. As a rule, meetings with them take place at dusk and unexpectedly, so that a shocked eyewitness at the most crucial moment usually forgets not only that he has a camera or video camera, but even weapons.

Republican soldier Federico Borel Garcia is depicted in the face of death.

The picture caused a huge uproar in society. The situation is absolutely unique. During the whole time of the attack, the photographer took only one picture, while he took it at random, without looking into the viewfinder, he did not look at all in the direction of the “model”. And this is one of the best, one of his most famous photographs. It was thanks to this picture that already in 1938 the newspapers called the 25-year-old Robert Cap "The Greatest War Photographer in the World."

A picture taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960, in which Che Guevara is also visible between a palm tree and someone's nose, claims to be the most widely disseminated photograph in history.

The photo, which depicted the hoisting of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag, spread around the world. Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945.

The death of a Nazi functionary and his family.

Vienna, 1945 Yevgeny Khaldei: “I went to the park near the parliament building to film the passing columns of soldiers. And I saw this picture. On the bench sat a woman, killed by two shots - in the head and neck, next to her a dead teenager of about fifteen and a girl. A little further away lay the corpse of the father of the family. He had a gold NSDAP badge on his lapel, and a revolver was lying next to him. (...) A watchman ran up from the parliament building:
- It's him, he did, not Russian soldiers. Came at 6 am. I saw him and his family from the basement window. There is not a soul on the street. He pushed the benches together, ordered the woman to sit down, and ordered the children to do the same. I didn't understand what he was going to do. And then he shot the mother and son. The girl resisted, then he laid her on a bench and shot her too. He stepped aside, looked at the result and shot himself.”

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), a photographer working for Life magazine, strolled around the square photographing the kissers. He later recalled that he noticed a sailor who “rushed around the square and kissed indiscriminately all the women in a row: young and old, fat and thin. I watched, but the desire to photograph did not appear. Suddenly he grabbed something white. I barely had time to raise the camera and take a picture of him kissing the nurse.”

For millions of Americans, this photograph, which Eisenstadt called "Unconditional Surrender", has become a symbol of the end of World War II.

The assassination of the thirty-fifth US President John F. Kennedy was committed on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas (Texas) at 12:30 local time. Kennedy was mortally wounded by a gunshot while he and his wife Jacqueline were riding in the presidential motorcade down Elm Street.

On December 30, Iraq executed former President Saddam Hussein. The Supreme Court sentenced the former Iraqi leader to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at 6 am in the suburbs of Baghdad.

The execution took place shortly before the morning prayer, which marks the beginning of the Muslim holiday of sacrifice. It was filmed and now the national Iraqi television is broadcasting this recording on all channels.

Representatives of the Iraqi authorities who were present at the same time reported that Hussein behaved with dignity and did not ask for mercy. He stated that he was "glad to accept death from his enemies and become a martyr" and not vegetate in prison until the end of his days.

The US military is dragging the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash.
Kyoichi Sawada/United Press International, Japan.
February 24, 1966, Tan Binh, South Vietnam

A young boy looks out from a bus loaded with refugees who have fled the epicenter of a war between Chechen separatists and Russians near Shali, Chechnya. The bus returns to Grozny.
Lucian Perkins/The Washington Post, USA.
May 1995. Chechnya

Episodes of crime series often feature characters filming gory scenes at crime scenes or working in morgues. Everyone knows how it happens in the movies, but in reality there are quite a few people who every day, on duty, are forced to face death.

WARNING: many of the photos are taken in the morgue and contain some pretty violent scenes. Impressive look is not recommended!

It took several months for the institute's leadership to finally give in. Budenz spent the next year among the corpses and those who work with them. As a result, two collections of images appeared: the first is dedicated to forensic experts who are looking for evidence at crime scenes, the second is about what happens to bodies after death: funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoria, etc. Of course, this is not the only photo collection dedicated to death. However, the work of Budenz is distinguished by an atmosphere of calm and peaceful attitude to this issue, without excessive drama. The goal of the photographer is not to shock, but to try to reconcile the viewer with the thought of death.

Episodes of crime series often feature characters filming gory scenes at crime scenes or working in morgues. Everyone knows how it happens in the movies, but in reality there are quite a lot of people who every day, on duty, are forced to face death.

Photographer from Germany Patrick Budenz decided to dedicate a separate project to these people and went to the Berlin Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science, where he had to work hard to get full access to all laboratories and the right to film the work of all specialists of interest to him. It took several months for the institute's leadership to finally give in. Budenz spent the next year among the corpses and those who work with them. As a result, two collections of images appeared: the first is dedicated to forensic experts who are looking for evidence at crime scenes, the second is about what happens to bodies after death: funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoria, etc.

Of course, this is not the only photo collection dedicated to death. However, the work of Budenz is distinguished by an atmosphere of calm and peaceful attitude to this issue, without excessive drama. The goal of the photographer is not to shock, but to try to reconcile the viewer with the thought of death.

It is no secret that Germany launched mass actions on the territory of the occupied countries to exterminate prisoners of war and the population. The account went to millions of lives. But it is not even the scale of the tragedy that is striking, but the fact that it was essentially a single plant, the workshops of which were scattered over a vast territory. The enterprise had its own directors, heads of shops, accountants, workers and shock workers of National Socialist Labor. there were even technical schools where specialists in the "slaughter of human livestock" were trained. Even now it is impossible to read archival documents without shuddering.

SPEECH BY ASSISTANT OF THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR FOR THE USSR L. N. SMIRNOV

{TsGAOR USSR, f 7445, op. 1, unit storage 26.}

At the mass graves where the bodies of Soviet people were buried, killed by “typical German methods” (I will further present to the Court evidence of these methods and their certain periodicity), at the gallows on which the bodies of adolescents swayed, at the ovens of giant crematoria, where the slaughtered in the extermination camps were burned , at the corpses of women and girls who fell victim to the sadistic inclinations of fascist bandits, at the dead bodies of children torn in half, the Soviet people comprehended a chain of atrocities, stretching, as rightly said in the speech of the Chief Prosecutor from the USSR, "from the hands of executioners to ministerial chairs." These monstrous atrocities had their own specific criminal system. The unity of methods of killing: the same arrangement of gas chambers, mass stamping of round cans with the poisonous substance "cyclone A" or "cyclone B", built according to the same standard designs of crematorium furnaces, the same layout of "extermination camps", the standard design of fetid "death machines", which the Germans called "gasenwagens", and our people called "gas chambers", the technical development of designs for mobile mills for grinding human bones - all this pointed to a single evil will uniting individual killers and executioners. It became clear that the rationalization of the massacres, on the instructions of the Nazi government and the leadership of the German military forces, was carried out by German heat engineers and chemists, architects and toxicologists, mechanics and doctors. …

From the evidence that I will present later, you will see that the burial sites of German victims were opened by Soviet forensic doctors in the north and south of the country, the graves were separated from one another by thousands of kilometers, and it was obvious that these atrocities were committed by various individuals. But the methods of committing crimes were the same. The wounds were localized in the same way. Giant grave pits disguised as anti-tank ditches or trenches were prepared in the same way. Brought to the place of execution unarmed and defenseless people, the murderers ordered in almost identical terms to undress and lie face down in the pits prepared in advance. The first layer of the executed, whether it was in the swamps of Belarus or in the foothills of the Caucasus, was equally sprinkled with bleach, and the killers again forced the doomed defenseless people to lie down on the first row of the dead, covered with a caustic mass mixed with blood. This testified not only to the unity of the instructions and orders received from above. The methods of murder were so identical that it became clear how the cadres of murderers were trained in special schools, how everything was foreseen in advance, from the order to undress before being shot to the very killing. These assumptions, based on the analysis of facts, were subsequently fully confirmed by the documents captured by the Red Army and the testimonies of prisoners.

The fascist system of educating murderers knew other forms of training, specifically devoted, in particular, to the technique of destroying the traces of a crime. The court has already presented as evidence a document registered under the number USSR-6v/8. This document is one of the appendices to the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission on the atrocities of the Germans in the territory of the Lvov region. This is the testimony of the witness Manusevich, who was interrogated on special instructions from the Extraordinary State Commission by the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Lvov region. The record of the interrogation was duly drawn up in accordance with the procedural law of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Manusevich was imprisoned by the Germans in the Yanovsky camp, where he worked in a team of prisoners engaged in burning the corpses of murdered Soviet people. After the burning of 40,000 corpses slaughtered in the Yanovsky camp, a team was sent for similar purposes to a camp located in the Lysenitsky forest. I quote from the interrogation protocol: “In this camp at the death factory, special 10-day courses on burning corpses were organized, which involved 12 people. The courses were sent from the camps of Lublin, Warsaw and other camps, from which I cannot remember. I don’t know the names of the cadets, but they were not privates, but officers. The teacher of the courses was Colonel Shallock, the commandant of burning, who, at the place where the corpses were dug up and burned, told how to do it in practice, explained the device of the machine for grinding bones. Shallock went on to explain how to level the pit, sift and plant trees in this place, where to scatter and hide the ashes of human corpses. These courses have been around for a long time. During my stay, that is, for five and a half months of work in the Yanovsky and Lisenitsky camps, ten batches of cadets were missed.

The commandant of the Yanovsky camp, Obersturmführer Wilhaus, for the sake of sports and the pleasure of his wife and daughter, systematically fired from a machine gun from the balcony of the camp office at the prisoners working in the workshops, then handed the gun to his wife, and she also fired. Sometimes, in order to please his nine-year-old daughter, Wilhaus forced two to four-year-old children to be thrown into the air and shot at them. The daughter applauded and shouted: “Daddy, more, daddy, more!” And he shot.

The court has already been presented under the number USSR-29 the document "Communique of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of the Atrocities of the Germans Committed in the Extermination Camp on Majdanek in the City of Lublin." ... “I saw personally,” says the witness Baran Edward, “how they took small children from their mothers and killed them in front of their eyes: they took one leg with their hand, on the other they became a foot, and thus tore the child.”

The next part of the note is devoted to the mass crimes of the Germans, the so-called "actions", in particular the "actions" in Kyiv. I am compelled to draw the attention of the Court to the fact that the number of those killed at Babi Yar, which is given in the note, is less than in reality. After the liberation of Kyiv, it was established that the volume of atrocities of the Nazi invaders exceeded the crimes of the Germans, which were known from the initial information. From the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission for the city of Kyiv presented to the Court, it is clear that at Babi Yar during this monstrous so-called "mass action" the Germans shot not 52,000, but 100,000 people.

Upon the arrival of the Red Army in Kerch, in January 1942, when examining the Vagerovsky ditch, it was found that for a kilometer in length, 4 meters wide, 2 meters deep, it was overflowing with the corpses of women, children, old people and teenagers. Near the moat were frozen pools of blood. Children's hats, toys, ribbons, torn off buttons, gloves, bottles with nipples, boots, galoshes, along with stumps of arms and legs and other parts of the body, were also lying there. All this was spattered with blood and brains. Fascist scoundrels shot the defenseless population with explosive bullets. On the edge lay a tormented young woman. In her arms was a baby, neatly wrapped in a white lace blanket. Next to this woman lay an eight-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, shot through with explosive bullets. Their hands clung to their mother's dress."

The circumstances of the execution are confirmed by the testimony of numerous witnesses who were lucky enough to get out of the pit of death unharmed. I will cite two of these testimonies: “Twenty-year-old Anatoly Ignatievich Bondarenko, now a soldier of the Red Army, testified: “When they brought us to the anti-tank ditch and lined up near this terrible grave, we still thought that we were brought here in order to force us to fill the ditch with earth or dig new trenches. We did not believe that we were brought to be executed. But when the first shots were fired from the machine guns pointed at us, I realized that they were shooting at us. I immediately rushed into the pit and hid between the two corpses. So unharmed, in a semi-conscious state, I lay almost until evening. Lying in the pit, I heard how some of the wounded were shouting to the gendarmes who were shooting them: “Kill me, you scoundrel,” “Oh, you didn’t hit me, you scoundrel, hit me again!” Then, when the Germans left for lunch, one of our fellow villagers from the pit shouted: "Get up, whoever is alive." I got up, and the two of us began to scatter the corpses, pull out the living. I was covered in blood. Above the moat there was a light mist and steam from the cooling pile of bodies, blood and the last breath of the dying. We pulled Naumenko Fyodor and my father out, but my father was killed on the spot with an explosive bullet in the heart. Late at night I got to my friends in the village of Bagerovo and there I waited for the arrival of the Red Army. Witness A. Kamenev testified: “Behind the airfield, the driver stopped the car, and we saw that the Germans were shooting people at the moat. We were taken out of the car and ten people began to drive us to the moat. My son and I were in the top ten. We got to the ditch. We were placed facing the pit, and the Germans began to prepare to shoot us in the back of the head. My son turned around and shouted to them: “Why are you shooting civilians?” But shots rang out, and the son immediately fell into the pit. I ran after him. The corpses of people began to fall into the pit on me. At about three o'clock, an 11-year-old boy rose from a pile of corpses and began to shout: "Uncles, who are alive, get up, the Germans are gone." I was afraid to get up, because I thought that the boy was screaming at the order of the policeman. The boy began to scream a second time, and my son responded to this cry. He got up and asked: "Daddy, are you alive?" I couldn't say anything and just shook my head. The son and the boy pulled me out from under the corpses. We saw still living people who shouted: "Save!" Some of them were wounded. All the time while I was lying in the pit, under the corpses, the screams and cries of children and women were heard. It was after us that the Germans shot the elderly, women and children.”

Children were poisoned with carbon monoxide in German cars - "gas chambers". In support of this, I refer to the Report of the Extraordinary State Commission on the atrocities of the Nazi invaders in the Stavropol Territory, already presented to the Court under the number USSR-1: The killing of Soviet children with bone tuberculosis who were being treated in the sanatoriums of the Teberda resort, exceptional in its cruelty, was organized. Eyewitnesses of this atrocity, employees of children's sanatoriums, nurse Ivanova S. E. and nurse Polupanova M. I. reported: “On December 22, 1942, a German car drove up to the entrance of the sanatorium of the first department. Seven German soldiers who arrived with this car pulled out 54 seriously ill children aged three years from the sanatorium, put them in stacks in several tiers in the car - these were children who could not move, and therefore they were not driven into the car, but laid in tiers - then they slammed the door, let in gas (carbon monoxide) and left the sanatorium. An hour later, the car returned to the village of Teberda. All the children died, they were killed by the Germans and thrown into the Teberd Gorge near Gunachgir. Children were drowned in the open sea. In confirmation of this, I refer to the document under the number USSR-63 - "Act on the atrocities of the Germans in Sevastopol."

Former prisoner Gordon Yakov, a doctor from the city of Vilnius, testified: “At the beginning of 1943, 164 boys were selected in the Birkenau camp and taken to the hospital, where they were all killed with carbolic acid injections in the heart.”

In the Bikernek forest, located on the outskirts of the city of Riga, the Nazis shot 46,500 civilians. Witness M. Stabulnek, who lives near this forest, said: “On Friday and Saturday before Easter 1942, buses with people ran around the clock from the city to the forest. I counted that on Friday from morning to noon 41 buses passed by my house. On the first day of Easter, many residents, including myself, went to the forest to the place of execution. There we saw one large open pit, in which there were women and children who had been shot, naked and in their underwear. On the corpses of women and children there were signs of torture and abuse - many had blood smudges on their faces, bruises on their heads, some had their hands and fingers cut off, their eyes were gouged out, their stomachs were ripped open ... "

In confirmation of the fact that during mass executions, the so-called "actions", German criminals buried living people in the ground, I present to the Court under the number USSR-37 the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission dated June 24, 1943: "During the excavation of a pit at a depth of one meter 71 corpses of shot residents of the city of Kupyansk and the Kupyansk region were discovered, among them there were 62 male corpses, 8 female and the corpse of an infant. All those who were shot were without shoes, and some without clothes ... The commission notes that many of the wounds were not fatal, and it is obvious that these people were thrown into the pit (and buried alive. This is also confirmed by citizens who passed near the pit shortly after the executions, who saw how the earth stirred over the pit and a muffled groan was heard from the grave ... "

“On November 3, 1943, 18,400 people were shot in the camp. 8400 people were taken from the camp itself, and 10 thousand people were driven from the city and from other camps ... The execution began in the morning and ended late in the evening. People, stripped naked, were taken by the SS in groups of 50 and 100 people to the ditches, laid face down on the bottom of the ditches and shot from machine guns. A new batch of living people was laid on the corpses, who were also shot. And until the ditches fill up…”

I ask the distinguished judges to refer to the album of documents on the Clog camp. You will find there a typical view of this kind of cruel methods of execution. To confirm this, I turn to the document under the number USSR-39: “On September 19, 1944, the Germans began to liquidate the Kloga camp. Camp Unterscharführer Schwarze and the head of the concentration camp, Hauptscharführer Max Dahlmann, selected 300 people from the prisoners and forced them to carry firewood to a forest clearing, and forced another 700 people to make fires. When the fires were ready, the German executioners began the mass execution of the prisoners. First of all, the firewood carriers and the organizers of the fires were shot, and then the rest. The execution took place as follows: on a prepared fire site, the Germans from the SD police teams forced the prisoners to lie face down by force of arms and shot them with machine guns and pistols. The dead were burned at the stake. In the Kloga camp on September 19, 1944, about two thousand people were killed.

The point of mass executions in the town of Ponary was organized in July 1941 and operated until July 1944: “In December 1943,” said witness Zaidel Matvey Fedorovich, “we were forced to dig up and burn corpses. Thus, we laid about 3,000 corpses on each fire, filled them with oil, placed incendiary bombs on four sides and set them on fire. The burning of corpses continued from the end of 1943 until June 1944. During this time, from nine pits with a total volume of 21,179 cubic meters, at least 100 thousand corpses were removed and burned at the stake.

In a number of cases, for the mass killing of civilians in the Soviet Union, the German fascists resorted to methods full of cruel cunning. To confirm these methods, I refer to the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission for the Stavropol Territory, which I have already presented to the Court under the number USSR-1: “It was established that before retreating from the city of Georgievsk on January 9 and 10 this year. On the orders of the head of the German infirmaries, chief physician Baron von Gaimann, in order to poison the Soviet people, German soldiers sold alcohol and baking soda on the city market, and the alcohol turned out to be methyl alcohol, and the “soda” was oxalic acid. There was a mass poisoning of the inhabitants of the city ... "

I turn to the presentation of evidence related to the use by Nazi criminals of special machines for killing people with gasoline exhaust vapors - "sonder machines", "gas wagons", or "gas vans", as the Soviet people correctly called them. The very fact of the use of these machines for the mass killing of people is the gravest accusation against the leaders of German fascism. Special devices for the mass destruction of people in closed hermetic vehicles, the exhaust pipes of whose engines were connected to the bodies with the help of special movable hoses, were used by the Nazis for the first time in the USSR in 1942. I remind the esteemed Court that for the first time we find mention of "gas chambers" in the act I have already presented to the Tribunal on the atrocities of the German fascist invaders in the city of Kerch (document numbered USSR-63); this refers to the spring of 1942. I remind the Tribunal, included in the act, of an excerpt from the testimony of the witness Darya Demchenko, who saw how German servicemen in Kerch threw the corpses of the dead into an anti-tank ditch from two "gas chambers". However, it is clear with indisputable evidence that the mass killing of people by "gas chambers" was first established by the Extraordinary State Commission in the Stavropol Territory. This can be seen from the document under the number USSR-1. The investigation of the atrocities of the German fascists in the Stavropol Territory was led by the late outstanding Russian writer, member of the Extraordinary State Commission, Academician Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy. A very thorough investigation was organized with the involvement of prominent specialists, forensic doctors, because human thinking, which sets certain logical boundaries for crimes, then hardly perceived the existence of these machines. However, as a result of the investigation and the testimony of eyewitnesses about the "gas chambers", the mass painful murders of civilians committed by the German fascists with their help were fully confirmed.

The Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission for the Stavropol Territory contains the first detailed description of the “gas chambers” device: “The mass extermination of the civilian Soviet population by the Germans by carbon monoxide poisoning in specially equipped gas chambers by the Germans has been established. POW Fenichel E.M. reported: “Working as an auto mechanic, I had the opportunity to get acquainted in detail with the device of vehicles specially adapted for suffocation - the destruction of people with exhaust gases. There were several such cars in the city of Stavropol under the Gestapo. Its device was as follows: the body was about 5 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, the height of the body was also about 2.5 meters. The body was in the shape of a wagon, without windows, inside it was upholstered with galvanized iron, on the floor, also upholstered in iron, there were wooden gratings; the body door is upholstered with rubber, with the help of an automatic lock it was tightly closed. On the floor of the car, under the bars, there were two metal pipes... These pipes were interconnected by a transverse pipe of the same diameter... These pipes had frequent half-centimeter holes; a rubber hose exits from the transverse pipe down through a hole in the galvanized floor, at the end of which is a hexagonal nut with a thread corresponding to the thread on the end of the motor exhaust pipe. This hose is screwed onto the exhaust pipe, and when the engine is running, all the exhaust gases go into the inside of the body of this hermetically sealed car. As a result of the accumulation of gases, the person in the back died after a short time. The body of the car can accommodate 70-80 people. The motor on this car is installed brand "Sauer" ... "

In the Stavropol Territory, a gas chamber was used to kill 660 sick people in a local hospital. Further, I draw the attention of the distinguished Court to the Report of the Extraordinary State Commission on the atrocities of the German fascist criminals in Krasnodar. I submit this document to the Court under Exhibit Number USSR-42. It also states the facts of mass murders of people with the help of "gas chambers". I submit to the Court under Exhibit Number USSR-65 the verdict of the military tribunal of the North Caucasian Front. In order to shorten the time, I will quote from this verdict a short quote: “The judicial investigation also established the facts of the systematic torture and burning by the Nazi robbers of many arrested Soviet citizens who were in the basements of the Gestapo, and extermination by carbon monoxide poisoning in specially equipped vehicles -“ gas chambers ”about 7 thousand innocent Soviet people, including over 700 sick people who were in medical institutions in the city of Krasnodar and the Krasnodar Territory, of which 42 were children aged 5 to 16 years. I then submit to the Court the Report of the Extraordinary State Commission on the atrocities of the German fascist invaders in the city of Kharkov and the Kharkov region. Document number USSR-43. I refer to the verdict of the military tribunal of the 4th Ukrainian Front, which is presented under the number USSR-32. “For the massacres of Soviet citizens, the Nazi invaders used the so-called“ gas wagons ”- large closed cars, which are known among Russians as“ gas chambers ”. The Nazi invaders drove Soviet citizens into these "gas wagons" and killed them by launching a special deadly gas - carbon monoxide. In order to hide the traces of the committed monstrous atrocities and the mass extermination of Soviet people by suffocation with carbon monoxide in gas wagons, Nazi criminals burned the corpses of their victims. As evidence that "gas chambers" were used not only in those points about which I spoke, I refer to the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission, presented to the Court under the number USSR-9, about the atrocities of the Germans in Kyiv. The court will find there evidence of the use of "gas chambers" in Kyiv. I will focus on the data on the widespread use of "gas chambers" in the territory of the temporarily occupied regions of the USSR, that is, on the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission for the city of Rovno and the Rivne region. “…3. The destruction of civilians and prisoners of war in the city of Rovno was carried out by mass executions from machine guns and machine guns, by killing with carbon monoxide in gas chambers, ”and in some cases people were thrown into graves and covered up alive. Some of the people who were shot, in particular in the quarries near the village of Vydumka, were burnt in advance prepared and adapted sites. "I refer to the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission for Minsk as confirmation of this: "Thousands of Soviet citizens died at the hands of German executioners in concentration camps." I turn to according to the testimony of witness Moysievich. He says: "I was an eyewitness of how the Germans destroyed people in the "gas chambers". They forcibly pushed from 70 to 80 people into each "gas chamber" and took them away in an unknown direction. "In Minsk, the killers used the principle of the "gas chamber" was used for the installation of stationary gas chambers, which were arranged by criminals in ordinary baths.This is also stated in this Communication of the Extraordinary Commission.

The report of the Polish government shows that the Sobibur camp was founded during the first and second periods of liquidation of the Jewish ghettos. But the main wave of atrocities passed through this camp at the beginning of 1943. In the same report, we can find a mention that the camp in Belchitsa was set up in 1940, but it was in 1942 that special electrical devices were set up here for the mass killing of people. Under the pretext that they were being taken to bathe, the doomed were forced to undress, then they were taken to a building where the floor was electrified in a special way, and there they were killed.

In addition, mobile crematoria were created. Their existence is evidenced by the SS man Paul Waldman, who took part in one of the atrocities of the German fascists - in the simultaneous destruction of many thousands of Russian prisoners of war in Sachsenhausen. Documents on this camp have already been submitted to the court under the number USSR-52. I quote that passage from the testimony of SS Waldmann, which speaks of the mass execution in Sachsenhausen: “The prisoners of war killed in this way were burned in four mobile crematoria, which were transported on a car trailer ...”

I refer, further, to the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission for the city of Minsk: “In the Blagovshchina tract, 34 grave pits were found, disguised with coniferous branches. Some graves reach a length of 50 meters. When five graves were partially opened, charred corpses and a layer of ash from half to one meter thick were found in them at a depth of three meters. Near the pits, the Commission found many small human bones, hair, dentures and a lot of all kinds of small personal items. The investigation found that here the Nazis exterminated up to 150 thousand people. 450 meters from the former Petrashkevichi farm, 8 pit-graves were found measuring 21 meters in length, 4 meters in width and 5 meters in depth. In front of each pit-grave there are huge deposits of ash left from the burning of corpses.

The mockery of the corpses of the victims was characteristic of all extermination camps. I remind the respected Court that the unburned bones of the dead were sold by the German fascists to the Strem firm. The hair of the slaughtered women was cut off, packed in bales, pressed and sent to Germany. Among these same crimes are those about which I present evidence now. I have repeatedly pointed out earlier that the main method of destroying traces was the burning of corpses, but the same vile rationalization SS technical idea that created gas chambers and "gas chambers" began to work to create such methods for the complete destruction of human corpses, in which the destruction traces of crimes would be combined with obtaining a certain fabricated product. At the Danzig Anatomical Institute, experiments have already been carried out on a semi-industrial scale in obtaining soap from human bodies and tanning human skin for industrial purposes. I submit to the Court under Exhibit Number USSR-197 the testimony of one of the direct participants in the manufacture of soap from human fat, a preparator at the Anatomical Institute in Danzig, Sigmund Mazur:

Question: Tell us how soap was made from human fat at the Anatomical Institute of Danzig.

Answer: In the summer of 1943, a three-room stone one-story building was built near the anatomical institute in the back of the courtyard. This building was built for the processing of corpses and the digestion of bones. This was officially announced by Professor Spanner. This laboratory was called a laboratory for making human skeletons and burning meat and unnecessary bones. But already in the winter of 1943/44, Professor Spanner ordered that human fat be collected and not thrown away. This order was given to Reichert and Borkmann. In February 1944, Professor Spanner gave me a recipe for making soap from human fat. In this recipe, it was prescribed to take human fat in the amount of 5 kilograms and cook for 2-3 hours in 10 liters of water with 500 grams or one kilogram of caustic soda, then let it cool. Soap floats to the top, and the remains and water remain at the bottom in buckets. Salt (a handful) and soda were also added to the mixture. Then fresh water was added and the mixture was boiled again for 2-3 hours. After cooling, the finished soap was poured into molds.

I now present to the Court these “cuvettes into which the boiled soap was poured. Next, I present evidence that the semi-finished product of this human soap was indeed seized in Danzig.

“The soap had an unpleasant odor. In order to destroy this unpleasant odor, benzaldehyde was added. Fat was collected from human corpses by Borkmann and Reichert. I made soap from the corpses of men and women. One industrial brew took several days - from 3 to 7. Of the two brews known to me, in which I was directly involved, more than 25 kilograms of finished soap came out, and for these brews 70-80 kilograms of human fat were collected, from about 40 corpses . The finished soap went to Professor Spanner, who kept it personally. As far as I know, the Nazi government was also interested in the production of soap from human corpses. Minister of Education Rust, Minister of Health Conti, Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster, as well as many professors from other medical institutes came to the Anatomical Institute. I personally used this soap made from human fat for my own needs - for toilet and laundry. Personally, I took 4 kilograms of this soap ... Personally, Reichert, Borkman, von Bargen and our boss Professor Spanner also took soap for myself ... Just like human fat, Professor Spanner ordered to collect human skin, which, after degreasing, was treated with certain chemical substances. The production of human skin was carried out by the senior preparator von Bargen and Professor Spanner himself. The worked out skin was put into boxes and went for special purposes, but I don’t know what.

I present now under the number USSR-196 a copy of the recipe for soap made from the bodies of the dead. It is basically identical to the one set out in the protocol of Mazur's interrogation. In order to confirm that everything stated in the record of Mazur's interrogation is true, I will cite the minutes of the interrogation of British prisoners of war accepted by the Court, in particular John G. Witton, private of the Royal Sussex Regiment. The document is presented to the Court under the number USSR-264. I am quoting one small passage from this protocol: “Corpses arrived at a rate of 7 to 8 per day. They were all beheaded and stripped naked. Sometimes they were delivered in Red Cross vehicles in wooden boxes containing 5-6 corpses, sometimes 3-4 corpses were delivered in small trucks. The corpses were usually unloaded with extreme speed and taken to the cellar, which led to the side door from the foyer at the main entrance to the institute. Due to the fact that the corpses were previously soaked in some kind of liquid, the tissue was very easily separated from the bones. The whole fabric was then put into a boiling tank the size of a small kitchen table. After boiling, the resulting liquid was poured into white vessels about the size of a double sheet of ordinary writing paper and a depth of 3 centimeters. Usually the machine gave 3-4 such vessels per day.

I submit, further, to the Court under Exhibit Number USSR-272, the affidavit of a British subject, Corporal William Andersen Neely of the Royal Signal Corps. “Corpses were delivered in the amount of 2-3 per day. All of them were completely naked, and most of them were beheaded. The construction of the soap making machine was completed in March-April 1944. The construction of the building in which it was supposed to be placed was completed in June 1942. This machine was mounted at the Danzig firm Aird, not associated with military production. As far as I remember, this machine consisted of a tank heated by electricity, in which, by adding some acids, the bones of corpses were dissolved. The dissolution process took about 24 hours. The fat parts of the corpses, especially those of women, were put into large enameled vats, heated by the fire of two gasoline burners. Some acids were also used for this procedure. I assume that caustic soda was taken as the acid. When the boiling was over, the resulting mixture was allowed to cool, and then laid out in special forms ... I cannot accurately determine the amount of the substance obtained, but I saw how it was used in Danzig to clean the tables on which the autopsy was performed. People who have used it have assured me that it is the best soap for this purpose.”

FROM THE INTERROGATION OF WITNESS S. SHMAGLEVSKAYA (TSGAOR USSR, f. 7445, op. 1, item 38.)

Shmaglevskaya: And doctors. During this selection, the youngest and healthiest Jewish women entered the camps in very small numbers. Those women who carried children in their arms or were carried in carriages, or who had older children, were sent with these children to the crematorium. The children were separated from their parents in front of the crematorium and taken separately to the gas chamber. At a time when most Jews were exterminated in gas chambers, an order was issued that children would be thrown into the crematorium ovens without first being suffocated with gas.

Smirnov: How should you understand: were they thrown into the fire alive or were they killed in other ways before being burned?

Shmaglevskaya: The children were thrown alive. The cry of these children was heard throughout the camp. It is difficult to say how many of these children there were.

Smirnov: Why was it done anyway?

Shmaglevskaya: This is difficult to answer. I don't know if it was because they wanted to save gas, or because there was no room in the gas chambers. I would also like to say that it is impossible to determine the number of these children, for example, the number of Jews, since they were taken directly to the crematorium. They were not registered, they were not tattooed, very often they were not even counted. We prisoners, who wanted to know the number of people who died in the gas chambers, could only be guided by what we learned about the number of child deaths from the number of strollers that were sent to the shops. Sometimes there were hundreds of carriages, sometimes thousands. …

Smirnov: Tell me, do you confirm your testimony by the fact that sometimes the number of carriages left in the camp after the killing of children reached a thousand a day?

Shmaglevskaya: Yes, there were those days.

Smirnov: Mr. Chairman, I have no more questions for the witness.

Chairman: Would any of the other Chief Prosecutors want to question the witness? Does any of the defense counsel want to ask the witness questions? (Silence) In that case, the witness can consider himself free.

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