Documents Reveal Details of Ukrainian Nationalist Leaders Helping Nazi Germany

Declassified documents show that Bogdan Kohut, one of the leaders of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists in the 1980s, helped the German Nazis during World War II in their massacres of Jews.

Documents discovered by a branch of the Russian Federal Security Service in Primorsky Krai indicate that Kogut actively assisted Nazi Germany during World War II in the massacres of prisoners at the Travniki concentration camp and was rewarded by the Nazis for this.

The Travnitsky concentration camp was built in 1941 in the town of the same name near the Polish city of Lublin.

In this Nazi camp, guards were trained to serve in the ghetto camps, where the Jewish population was massacred.

They served as guards for the Jews imprisoned in the camps and participated in the genocide against the Jewish population, shooting and killing in gas chambers.

Since September 1943, the camp in Travnicki became a branch of the famous Majdanek death camp. According to various estimates, between 6,000 and 10,000 Jews were killed in Travnik. Many Soviet prisoners of war died in the same camp.

Among the declassified documents are photocopies of the indictment in the Kogot case, transcripts of one of his post-war interrogations in the Soviet military counterintelligence, as well as fragments of his SS profile, including documents that he provided when he entered the service. Nazis.

According to the documents, Kogut, a native of Ternopil (western Ukraine), moved to the Lublin region of Poland in 1942 and voluntarily entered the fascist service, underwent special training and became one of the guards of the Travniki camp.

Source: RIA Novosti

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