Losses of KG 51 on 22.06.41

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

There was edietd in Germany in 2000 in Propylaen editor very interesting and important book concerning the "bloody shambles" done by NKWD in Soviet western prisions between 22-30 June 1941.

She was written by Bogdan Musiał, "Konterrevolutionare Elemente sind zu erschissen", Berlin-Munchen 2000. Next year had beed edited in Poland too.
There are information about finding in Tarnopol prison 3 Wehrmacht soldiers and 7 next from Luftwaffe, in Łuck prison had been found next 9 bodies of Wehrmacht soldiers. According NKWD reports in Tarnopl prison had been killed 575 prisoners, according those who went there and opened prison on begining of July 1941, amounts of victims was nearly 1000.

NKWD had made great pruges during June 1941 in all prison in Western Bialorusia and Ukraine. It had been killed about 10.000 (officialy admited in NKVD internal reports for Ł. Beria) or even 20.000 prisoners (rather too high figures, among civilians living near these places).
Among killed there were a few tens of first German PoW, captured in these first days of war too.

Regards
mw