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Vladimir Katriuk
Volodymyr Katriuk (1 October 1921 – 22 May 2015) was a Ukrainian-Canadian soldier and beekeeper, who was accused by the Simon Wiesenthal Center of having been an active participant in the Khatyn massacre during World War II. In the annual Nazi War Criminal Report for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, Katriuk was ranked number three under the list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals as determined by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Katriuk denied any involvement in war crimes. Early life Katriuk was born in the village of Luzhany, near the city of Chernivtsi, on 1 October 1921. Chernivtsi is situated in the Bukovina region, which was then part of the Kingdom of Romania. Second World War In 1942 Katriuk joined Battalion 118 to fight the Soviet partisans. Katriuk's Nazi ties were known at the time of a 1999 Federal Court of Canada decision, but more details did not emerge until the release in 2008 of KGB interrogation reports at the trial of Hryhoriy Vasiura, one of the battalion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lujeni
Luzhany ( uk, Лужани, ro, Lujeni, yi, לוזשאן) is an urban-type settlement in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Chernivtsi Raion (raion, district) of Chernivtsi Oblast (oblast, province) in western Ukraine. It belongs to Mamaivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement lies on the banks of the Prut River, about northwest of the regional capital Chernivtsi. As of the Ukrainian Census (2001), 2001 census, the town's population is 4,744. Current population: History First mentioned in a 1452 deed, Luzhany belonged to the Danubian Principalities, Danubian Principality of Moldavia until 1774/75, when upon the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), Russo-Turkish War its northwestern parts (the Bukovina) were ceded to the Habsburg monarchy. Incorporated into the Austrian Duchy of Bukovina from 1849, the area fell to Greater Romania after World War I. In 1940, the Romanian state agreed to cede Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union, as provided for by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),; vi, Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, , lit. 'East Ocean under French Control; km, ឥណ្ឌូចិនបារាំង, ; th, อินโดจีนฝรั่งเศส, officially known as the Indochinese Union; vi, Liên bang Đông Dương, , lit. 'East Ocean Federation'; km, សហភាពឥណ្ឌូចិន; lo, ສະຫະພາບອິນໂດຈີນ and after 1947 as the Indochinese Federation,; vi, Liên đoàn Đông Dương; km, សហព័ន្ធឥណ្ឌូចិន; lo, ສະຫະພັນອິນດູຈີນ was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin (French protectorate), Tonkin in the north, Annam (French protectorate), Annam in the centre, and French Cochinchina, Cochinchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by France to the north, east and west. The principality is home to 38,682 residents, of whom 9,486 are Monégasque nationals; it is widely recognised as one of the most expensive and wealthiest places in the world. The official language of the principality is French. In addition, Monégasque (a dialect of Ligurian), Italian and English are spoken and understood by many residents. With an area of , it is the second-smallest sovereign state in the world, after Vatican City. Its make it the most densely-populated sovereign state in the world. Monaco has a land border of and the world's shortest coastline of approximately ; it has a width that varies between . The hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118
''Schutzmannschaft'' Battalion 118 (Ukrainian Schuma)Natalia Petrouchkevitch, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityVictims and criminals: Schutzmannschaft battalion 118 (Belarus, Ukraine) was a Schutzmannschaft auxiliary police battalion (Schuma). The core of the Schutzmannschaft battalion 118 consisted of Ukrainian nationalists from Bukovina in Western Ukraine. It was linked to the ultra-nationalist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, to its smaller Melnyk wing. 900 members of The OUN in Bukovina marched towards eastern Ukraine as members of paramilitary Bukovinian Battalion. After reinforcement by volunteers from Galicia and other parts of Ukraine, the Bukovinian Battalion had a total number of 1,500–1,700 soldiers. When the Bukovinian Battalion was dissolved, many of its members and officers were reorganized as Schutzmannschaft Battalions 115 and 118. Among the people incorporated into the Schutzmannschaft Battalions 115 and 118 were Ukrainian participants in the Babyn Yar massacre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasyl Meleshko
Vasyl Andriyovych Meleshko (Ukrainian: Василь Андрійович Мелешко; Russian: Василий Андреевич Мелешко, Vasiliy Andreevich Meleshko, April 26, 1917 – 1975) was a Ukrainian war criminal who participated in the Khatyn massacre. Biography Pre-war years Vasyl Meleshko was born in the settlement of Nyzhni Sirohozy, Taurida (now known as the Kherson Region, Ukraine) in 1917. He received a secondary school education after which he graduated from an agricultural technical school, specializing in agronomy. Beginning in 1938 he served in the Red Army. In 1940, he graduated from a course at the Kiev Infantry School, where he attained the rank of lieutenant. He was a member of the Komsomol from 1939 on. Prisoner of war By the beginning of the German invasion of the USSR, he served in the 140th separate machine-gun battalion, where he was a commander of a machine-gun platoon. The battalion was based at the Strumyliv Fortified District on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MG 42
The MG 42 (shortened from German: ''Maschinengewehr 42'', or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II. Entering production in 1942, it was intended to supplement and replace the earlier MG 34, which was more expensive and took much longer to produce, but both weapons were produced until the end of World War II. Designed to use the standard German 7.92×57mm Mauser rifle round, be low-cost and easier to mass-produce, the MG 42 proved to be highly reliable and easy to operate. It is most notable for its very high cyclic rate for a gun using full-power service cartridges, averaging about 1,200 rounds per minute compared to around 850 for the MG 34, and 450 to 600 for other common machine guns like the M1919 Browning, FM 24/29 or Bren gun. This ability made it extremely effective in providing suppressive fire, and its unique sound led to it being ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Anders Rudling
Per Anders Rudling (born 11 April 1974 in Karlstad)The Algemeiner Per Anders Rudling.''The Algemeiner'' Jewish & Israel News. Articles by Per Anders Rudling. Retrieved 30 May 2014. is a Swedish-American historian, In response to the Canadian-Ukrainian complaint about Rudling, an open letter was published in his support by a large group of academic researchers.D.H. (21 October 2012) Open Letter in Support of Per Anders Rudling.''Defending History'', Vol. V, No. 1727. Scanned letter from 5 October 2012 which – according tauthorsof defendinghistory.com – has been signed by a number of leading figures of Ukrainian nationalist groups in Canadafull text./ref> Selected academic publications * Long-Distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada3''2 page book chapter in ''Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020'' * Eugenics and Racial Anthropology in the Ukrainian Radical Nationalist T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Facts and figures Lund University web site. , head_label = , head = Erik Renström , academic_staff = 4,780 (2022) (academic staff, researchers and employed research students) , administrative_staff = 2,890 (2022) , students = 46 000 (29 000 full-time e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hryhoriy Vasiura
'' , native_name_lang = , nickname = Executioner of Khatyn , birth_date = , birth_place = Chyhyryn, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) , death_date = , death_place = Pishchalauski Castle, Minsk, Belorussian SSR, Soviet Union , allegiance = USSR (1936–1941) Nazi Germany (1941–1945) , branch = Signal corps, artillery (1936–1941) Auxiliary police, grenadiers (1941–1945) , serviceyears = 1936–1945 , rank = Senior lieutenant (1936–1941) Untersturmführer (1941–1945) , unit = 67th Rifle Division (1936–1941) Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS , commands = Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 , battles = World War II * Liepāja defense * Khatyn massacre , laterwork = State farm economic director , awards = Deprived of all awards , spouse = Maria Vasiura , children = Vasyl, Hennadiy, Natalia, Liudmyla , signature = Hryhoriy Vas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interrogation
Interrogation (also called questioning) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, intelligence agencies, organized crime syndicates, and terrorist organizations with the goal of eliciting useful information, particularly information related to suspected crime. Interrogation may involve a diverse array of techniques, ranging from developing a rapport with the subject to torture. Techniques Deception Deception can form an important part of effective interrogation. In the United States, there is no law or regulation that forbids the interrogator from lying about the strength of their case, from making misleading statements or from implying that the interviewee has already been implicated in the crime by someone else. See case law on trickery and deception ('' Frazier v. Cupp''). As noted above, traditionally the issue of deception is considered from the perspective of the interrogator engaging in deception towards the individual being inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Partisans
Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland. The activity emerged after Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa was launched from mid-1941 on. It was coordinated and controlled by the Soviet government and modeled on that of the Red Army. The partisans made a significant contribution to the war by countering German plans to exploit occupied Soviet territories economically, gave considerable help to the Red Army by conducting systematic attacks against Germany's rear communication network, disseminated political rhetoric among the local population by publishing newspapers and leaflets, and succeeded in creating and maintaining feelings of insecurity among Axis forces. Soviet partisans also operated on interwar Polish and Baltic territories occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939–1940, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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