Voronezh prosecutor’s office asks to recognize the crimes of the Nazis during the war years as genocide

The prosecutor’s office of the Voronezh region sent an application to the court to recognize as genocide the murders of the inhabitants of the region by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. We are talking about the events that took place from July 1942 to January 1943. It is alleged that at least 198 thousand civilians and prisoners of war died then, about 77 thousand people “were forcibly driven away from the territory of the region to the countries of Western Europe and Ukraine in order to subsequently involve them in forced labor.”

The amount of material damage caused to the Voronezh region, the Prosecutor General’s Office estimated at more than 11.7 trillion rubles. “The occupied territories of the Voronezh region were divided into German, Hungarian and Italian zones of occupation. The stay of the fascist occupation troops was accompanied by violence, torture, and the killing of Soviet prisoners of war and the civilian population of cities and villages, who were killed in concentration camps by exsanguination, lethal injections, executions, and burning, ”the statement says. press release departments.

The prosecutor’s office added that the application had been filed with the Voronezh Regional Court. The department filed a lawsuit, in particular, to “protect the national interests of the Russian Federation”, as well as “bringing to the world community information about the victims of the invaders and punishers during the Great Patriotic War, restoring historical justice.”