The FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea has declassified documents about the experiments of Nazi doctors on prisoners of war and civilian Soviet residents.
According to Ivan Galkin, a former employee of the prosecutor's office of the main medical institution in Simferopol, the First Soviet Hospital, the experiments were carried out by Gottfried Künther, an associate professor at the Berlin Medical Institute, and his assistant, Oskar Schultz. In particular, Kunter kept eight prisoners of war in the infirmary and experimented with them in secret from the Russian medical staff.
– Galkin repeatedly saw Kunter enter this basement with syringes in the morning, apparently for some injections. Later, he saw how two corpses were brought from this basement, severely swollen, which is typical for kidney diseases, – RIA Novosti quotes documents.
Also in January 1942, Galkin saw the corpses of two young men who had their kidneys cut out. In this case, the organs were removed from healthy people. Later, the witness observed corpses with cut pieces of vessels and muscles of the neck.
In February 2021, the FSB declassified new archival documents about the massacres of Crimean residents in the Krasny concentration camp during the Great Patriotic War. One of the most important documents is a copy of the official decree of 1969 instituting criminal proceedings against Paul Zapp, SS Obersturmbannführer, head of several Sonderkommandos. Zapp took part in the destruction of the population of the peninsula. In 1967, he was arrested again in the Federal Republic of Germany and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was involved in the death of almost 13.5 thousand people.
