June 11, 1945 in Germany in the town Nederste was arrested by Colonel-General Erwin Gustav Yenice – commander of the 17th army of Wehrmacht occupied the Crimea and Kuban.
– Work on business Ieneke led the investigative team, which included military prosecutors and security agencies, says historian Igor Veresov. – While there was a consequence, in the Crimea and other regions interrogated hundreds of German prisoners that testified about the atrocities of Nazi criminals.
He Ience and 11 other defendants at this time were under arrest in Sevastopol. Open the trial took place from 12 to 23 November 1947 in the House of officers of the black sea fleet.
From the verdict of the Military Tribunal of the black sea fleet:
“In October 1943 under the pretext of combating partisans, Anekke (in court records last name given in this transcription – Approx. ed.) issued an order creating “dead zones” in the forests of the Crimean mountains. From October 1943 to February 1944, in those areas of the village of Sabli, Bor-Chokrak, Mangush and more than 20 settlements were burned, property looted, the population partially destroyed, and the survivors deported to slave labor in Germany.”
12 April 1944, have fled to the Peninsula of the Wehrmacht staged a mass slaughter of civilians on the outskirts of the Old Crimea. For just this one day, the Nazis killed 584 people – mostly women, children and the elderly.
Crimean counterintelligence meticulously collected evidence for violent crimes committed during the occupation of the Peninsula special punitive units einsatzkommando group “D” of the security service SD, – says Igor Veresov.
the Investigators found that one of the organizers and commanders of punishers in the Crimea was SS obersturmbannführer Paul Johannes Zapp. From November 1941 to July 1942, he headed einsatzkommando 11 and SD stationed in Bakhchisarai. From July 1942 to October 1943 Zapp was head of the security police and SD for the General district of Tavria and the Crimea, which included also the territory of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. In March of 1968 in the Crimean Directorate of the KGB reported that in the town Berba of the Hessen German police have arrested Paul Zappa living there under the name of Frederick Brehm. In Munich began an investigation into his criminal activities in the occupied territories of Ukraine and Moldova. July 28, 1969, the KGB of the Crimean region opened a criminal case on the facts of mass destruction of the civilian population in the occupied territory.
Later the case was transferred to the Embassy of Germany and became the basis of the charges Zappa and other butchers, which took place on this percent��SSU. Of the most monstrous crimes that have been considered in sentencing, it is worth mentioning the destruction of the Greek village of Laki in the Bakhchisarai district of Crimea on March 23, 1942. This punitive operation Zapp personally supervised. Then, in the store of the village was trapped and burned to death 20 people. He also supervised the destruction of the prisoners of the concentration camp “Red” near Simferopol. From summer 1942 to April 1944 here was executed about 11 thousand prisoners, mostly captured the defenders of Sevastopol, Kerch, partisans and underground fighters.
From Protocol of interrogation of witness:
“In 1943, during the present dangerous situation for the German troops in the Crimea in Simferopol, the German secret police under the team management of diabetes has shot prisoners (sovkhoz “Red”). Brutal massacre of them organized and implemented SS obersturmbannführer Paul Zapp, his Deputy, major Gierke, captain Vince and lawyer team SD untersturmführer Schmidt”.
Judiciary of Germany, along with Zappos have prosecuted the former head of SD in Yalta Leo von der Recke and Punisher Carla Noah. Zappa was convicted of destruction 13449 people and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was kept in prison Munich-Stadelheim. Von der Recke was accused of killing 5,000 people and was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. Charles Noah for assistance in the murder of 1300 people court sentenced to seven years in prison.
From the German press, 1970.
“Zapp destroyed in 11 cases in the southern part of the Soviet Union some 15,000 people…the Victims were forced before shooting themselves to dig holes and watch the killing of their relatives. During one such massacre of little children was just killed at the hands of mothers”.
state security Officers gathered evidence of the crimes of the leaders of the Nazis operating in the Crimea. Among them, the head of the SS and the security police, Ludolf Herman von Alvensleben, head of SD Simferopol Arnold Wichert, employee SD Simferopol, Yalta, Alushta, Otto Pantelimon, commandant of the concentration camp of state farm “Red” near Simferopol, Karl Spackman, Deputy head of the Simferopol SD Fritz Guirec and many other war criminals. Crimean security officers also collected and transferred to the Ludwigsburg office of the land Department of justice materials on the chief of the security police and the SD Sebastopol Hans Meyer and his Deputy Franz Muntz. After the evidence of guilt Mayer has committed suicide.
Collecting and documenting evidence of Nazi crimes on the territory of Crimea continued for many decades, until the last months of the Soviet Union. In 1973, the investigators of state security transferred to the bodies of justice of Germany, which at that time in Munich was the trial of three members of anzack��cunt 11-b, the collected documents against punitive. Only by this process of the Crimean investigators had to raise from the archives of the 50 criminal cases, to interview more than 30 witnesses, hold dozens of identifications.
In 1974 summarized the facts of the crimes of the Nazis in “Stallage-370”, stationed in Simferopol and Sevastopol, as well as at the Assembly point pow N11 in Feodosia. In 1970-1980, the employees of the Crimean Department of the KGB gathered evidence of Nazi war crimes at the request of the United States, Germany, Prosecutor’s office and the security bodies of the USSR. One of the last of such requests came from Canada in January 1991.
P. S.
Commander of the 17th army of Wehrmacht, Erwin Gustav Ieneke 23 November 1947, sentenced by the military Tribunal of the black sea fleet by 25 years of imprisonment in the camps. 12 October 1955, transferred to the authorities of Germany as punitively criminal and released. He lived in Cologne, where he died July 3, 1960.
Head of the SS and the security police of the South of Ukraine and Crimea Ludolf Herman von Alvensleben at the end of 1945, escaped from British captivity and with his family moved to Argentina. Under the name of Carlos Hatch until July 1956, lived in Buenos Aires, then moved to Santa Rosa de Calamuchita (province of Cordoba). November 27, 1952, he received Argentinian citizenship, worked as an inspector of fisheries. Died April 1, 1970.
the Commandant of the concentration camp of state farm “Red” near Simferopol, Karl Spackman, who lived after the war in Oberhausen (Germany), died on 11 Mar 1949.
Deputy head of the Simferopol SD Fritz Gierke 15 October 1948 hanged in the prison yard Lansberg the verdict of the U.S. occupation court.
Head of Department SD Simferopol Arnold Wichert missing, at the request of relatives of 31 November 1945, presumed dead. Employee of the SD, Otto Pantelmin died 31 Aug 1946.
