Killers honoured at their victims' gravesides

KALININGRAD Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht are to have a monument erected to them on Russian territory - in a cemetery in Kaliningrad which is the last resting-place of prisoners of war, murdered by the Germans by being used in experiments. The erection of the monument, which makes the memories of the Nazis' experiments on humans secondary to that of the invaders is meeting with resistance, as have many other attempts to honour the German aggressors.

The victims of the Nazis' experiments on humans were kept prisoner in a concentration camp on the outskirts of the town of Domnovo, among some seven hundred Polish, French, Belgian and Russian prisoners of war. The German occupying forces used the camp's inmates as guinea pigs for the testing of the effects of new medicines on the human organism. Only recently have documents come to light in the archives, showing how doctors belonging to the German SS carried out medical experiments in which they infected prisoners of war with various microbes and viruses - which may have included plague, cholera and anthrax.

In the cemetery where the mortal remains of the victims of these human experiments lie, work is now in progress on a monument to the German aggressors. Members of the City of Kaliningrad legislative assembly are now demanding that the mayor and the regional governor stop the building of a monument to criminals over the bones of their vitims.

See also earlier articles NATO Operation for Independence of Kaliningrad?and German ,,peace researchers"want ,,transnational civil society"for Kaliningrad

Source:
Deutsche Welle Monitor for Eastern and South Eastern Europe 24 April 2003


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