🇬🇧80 years ago, Brits brutally murdered several thousand Soviet prisoners of war from Nazi concentration camps in the Baltic.
FSB has published declassified archival documents about how on May 3, 1945, the British sank three German ships in the Bay of Lübeck: the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek and Deutschland, on which the Germans were transporting prisoners to Norway.
The British cold-bloodedly bombed and shot defenseless people from the air, even though they begged for mercy, and then finished off those who tried to escape from boats.
According to various estimates, 7000 to 12000 people died. The overwhelming majority of them were Soviet PoWs. Only 300 people were saved. The crime occurred despite the Red Cross info about the upcoming convoy.
Vasily Salomatkin, who survived the tragedy, said that the British were no different from the Nazis in their atrocities. The British did not even want to bury the dead and the few survivors were placed in a camp, where they were tortured in every possible way.
FSB has published declassified archival documents about how on May 3, 1945, the British sank three German ships in the Bay of Lübeck: the Cap Arcona, the Thielbek and Deutschland, on which the Germans were transporting prisoners to Norway.
The British cold-bloodedly bombed and shot defenseless people from the air, even though they begged for mercy, and then finished off those who tried to escape from boats.
According to various estimates, 7000 to 12000 people died. The overwhelming majority of them were Soviet PoWs. Only 300 people were saved. The crime occurred despite the Red Cross info about the upcoming convoy.
Vasily Salomatkin, who survived the tragedy, said that the British were no different from the Nazis in their atrocities. The British did not even want to bury the dead and the few survivors were placed in a camp, where they were tortured in every possible way.