Barbarossa - The Air Battle - Chapter 17 on atrocities

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

BTW, I agree with Franek's opinion about Ch. B's. credibility etc.,

I wonder, if he did mention about attrition made by Russian's NKVD prisons in the first weeks of Barbarossa.
Russian had mordered at least 10.000 people there (according own NKVD interenal reports), other calculations estimates this figure for about 15-20.000.
This is important thing, when the first time invading German forces had seen on their eyes about hundred places with bloody mordered. massacred people - prisoners.
There were of course among killed then Polish, Ukrainian, Białorussin etc. also a few captured German (including Luftwaffe crew's too).

There was edited in German in 200o and 2001 next edition (also edited in Poland, 2001, a book about this even and escalation of war's crimes.

The book was written by Bogdan Musiał (Polish title is: Rozstrzelać elementy kontrewolucyjne. Brutalizacja wojny niemiecko-sowieckiej latem 1941 roku).
German soldlier had made many visit to many ex-NKVD's prisons - it was for them total shock. The propaganda made many press news about these crimes, so such began these nasty war of killing people.

PS

This information of course does not meant, that German were "holy people", they had mordered eralier or later also very big figure of innocent, civilian people in Poland or in Russina. German had made own first war's crimes in Poland in IX-X 1939.

Regards,
Mirek Wawrzyński