Executions and torture by the Nazis ss in the wwii. The cruel torture of women by the Nazis. Wounded Red Army soldiers brutally tortured by Hitler's barbarians in Rostov-on-Don
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This small, clean house in Kristiansad, next to the road to Stavanger and the port, was the scariest place in the whole of southern Norway during the war years.
"Skrekkens hus" - "House of Horror" - that was how it was called in the city. Since January 1942, the headquarters of the Gestapo in southern Norway were located in the building of the city archive. The arrested were brought here, torture chambers were equipped here, from here people were sent to concentration camps and to be shot.
Now in the basement of the building where the punishment cells were located and where the prisoners were tortured, a museum has been opened that tells about what happened during the war in the building of the state archive.
The layout of the basement corridors has been left unchanged. Only new lights and doors appeared. In the main corridor there is a main exhibition with archival materials, photographs and posters.
Thus, a suspended prisoner was beaten with a chain.
So they tortured with electric stoves. With special zeal of the executioners, a person's hair on his head could catch fire.
I already wrote about water torture earlier. It was also used in the Archives.
In this device, fingers were pinched, nails were pulled out. The machine is authentic - after the liberation of the city from the Germans, all the equipment of the torture chambers remained in place and was preserved.
Nearby - other devices for interrogation with "addiction".
Several basements have been reconstructed - as it looked then, in this very place. This is the cell where the most dangerous prisoners were kept - members of the Norwegian Resistance who fell into the clutches of the Gestapo.
A torture chamber was located in the adjacent room. It reproduces a real scene of torture of a married couple of underground fighters, taken by the Gestapo in 1943 during a communication session with an intelligence center in London. Two Gestapo men torture his wife in front of her husband chained to the wall. In the corner, on an iron beam, another member of the failed underground group is suspended. They say that before interrogations, the Gestapo were pumped up with alcohol and drugs.
Everything was left in the cell as it was then, in 1943. If you turn over that pink stool at the woman's feet, you can see the brand of the Gestapo Kristiansand.
This is a reconstruction of the interrogation - the Gestapo provocateur (left) presents the arrested radio operator of the underground group (he is sitting on the right, handcuffed) with his radio station in a suitcase. In the center sits the chief of the Kristiansand Gestapo, SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Kerner - I will tell you about him later.
In this showcase, belongings and documents of those Norwegian patriots who were sent to the Grini concentration camp near Oslo - the main transfer point in Norway, from where prisoners were sent to other concentration camps in Europe.
The designation system for different groups of prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Jew, political, gypsy, Spanish republican, dangerous felon, criminal, war criminal, Jehovah's Witness, homosexual. The letter N was written on the badge of a Norwegian political prisoner.
There are school trips to the museum. I stumbled upon one of these - several local teenagers were walking along the corridors with Ture Robstad, a volunteer from local residents who survived the war. It is said that about 10,000 schoolchildren visit the Museum in the Archives annually.
Touré tells the guys about Auschwitz. Two boys from the group were there recently on an excursion.
Soviet prisoner of war in a concentration camp. In his hand is a homemade wooden bird.
In a separate window there are things made by the hands of Russian prisoners of war in Norwegian concentration camps. The Russians exchanged these crafts for food from local residents. Our neighbor in Kristiansand had a whole collection of such wooden birds - on the way to school, she often met groups of our prisoners going to work under escort, and gave them her breakfast in exchange for these wooden toys.
Reconstruction of a partisan radio station. Partisans in southern Norway transmitted information to London about the movements of German troops, the deployment of military equipment and ships. In the north, the Norwegians supplied intelligence to the Soviet Northern Sea Fleet.
"Germany is a nation of creators."
The Norwegian patriots had to work in conditions of the strongest pressure on the local population of Goebbels' propaganda. The Germans set themselves the task of the earliest possible Nazification of the country. The Quisling government made efforts for this in the field of education, culture, sports. Even before the war began, the Nazi party of Quisling (Nasjonal Samling) instilled in the Norwegians that the main threat to their security was the military might of the Soviet Union. It should be noted that the 1940 Finnish campaign contributed a lot to the intimidation of the Norwegians about the Soviet aggression in the North. Since coming to power, Quisling only intensified his propaganda with the help of the Goebbels department. The Nazis in Norway convinced the population that only a strong Germany could protect the Norwegians from the Bolsheviks.
Several posters distributed by the Nazis in Norway. "Norges nye nabo" - "New Norwegian Neighbor", 1940 Note the fashionable and nowadays method of "flipping" Latin letters to imitate the Cyrillic alphabet.
"Do you want it to be like this?"
The propaganda of the "new Norway" emphasized in every possible way the kinship of the "Nordic" peoples, their rallying in the struggle against British imperialism and the "wild Bolshevik hordes." Norwegian patriots responded by using the symbol of King Haakon and his image in their struggle. The king's motto “Alt for Norge” was ridiculed in every possible way by the Nazis, who inspired the Norwegians that military difficulties were temporary and Vidkun Quisling was the new leader of the nation.
Two walls in the dark corridors of the museum are given over to the materials of the criminal case, according to which seven main Gestapo men were tried in Kristiansand. There have never been such cases in Norwegian judicial practice - the Norwegians tried Germans, citizens of another state, accused of crimes on the territory of Norway. Three hundred witnesses, about a dozen lawyers, the Norwegian and foreign press took part in the trial. The Gestapo members were tried for torture and mockery of those arrested; there was a separate episode about the execution without trial and investigation of 30 Russians and 1 Polish prisoner of war. On June 16, 1947, all were sentenced to death, which was first and temporarily included in the Norwegian Criminal Code immediately after the end of the war.
Rudolf Kerner is the chief of the Kristiansand Gestapo. Former shoemaker teacher. A notorious sadist, in Germany he had a criminal past. He sent several hundred members of the Norwegian Resistance to concentration camps, is guilty of the death of an organization of Soviet prisoners of war discovered by the Gestapo in one of the concentration camps in southern Norway. He was, like the rest of his accomplices, sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. He was released in 1953 under an amnesty announced by the Norwegian government. He left for Germany, where his tracks were lost.
Next to the building of the Archive there is a modest monument to Norwegian patriots who died at the hands of the Gestapo. The local cemetery, not far from this place, rests the ashes of Soviet prisoners of war and British pilots shot down by the Germans in the skies over Kristiansand. Every year on May 8, the flags of the USSR, Great Britain and Norway are raised on flagpoles next to the graves.
In 1997, the Archive building, from which the State Archives moved to another location, it was decided to sell it to private hands. Local veterans and community organizations came out strongly against, organized themselves into a special committee and got the owner of the building, the state concern Statsbygg, to transfer the historic building to the veterans committee in 1998. Now here, along with the museum I told you about, are the offices of Norwegian and international humanitarian organizations - the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the UN.
This small, clean house in Kristiansad, next to the road to Stavanger and the port, was the scariest place in the whole of southern Norway during the war. "Skrekkens hus" - "House of Horror" - that was how it was called in the city. Since January 1942, the headquarters of the Gestapo in southern Norway were located in the building of the city archive. The arrested were brought here, torture chambers were equipped here, from here people were sent to concentration camps and to be shot.
Now in the basement of the building where the punishment cells were located and where the prisoners were tortured, a museum has been opened that tells about what happened during the war in the building of the state archive.
The layout of the basement corridors has been left unchanged. Only new lights and doors appeared. In the main corridor there is a main exhibition with archival materials, photographs and posters.
Thus, a suspended prisoner was beaten with a chain.
So they tortured with electric stoves. With special zeal of the executioners, a person's hair on his head could catch fire.
water torture
In this device, fingers were pinched, nails were pulled out. The machine is authentic - after the liberation of the city from the Germans, all the equipment of the torture chambers remained in place and was preserved.
Nearby - other devices for interrogation with "addiction".
Several basements have been reconstructed - as it looked then, in this very place. This is the cell where the most dangerous prisoners were kept - members of the Norwegian Resistance who fell into the clutches of the Gestapo.
Everything was left in the cell as it was then, in 1943. If you turn over that pink stool at the woman's feet, you can see the brand of the Gestapo Kristiansand.
Reconstruction of interrogation - a Gestapo provocateur (left) presents an arrested radio operator of an underground group (he is sitting on the right, handcuffed) with his radio station in a suitcase. In the center sits the chief of the Kristiansand Gestapo, SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Kerne
In this showcase, belongings and documents of those Norwegian patriots who were sent to the Grini concentration camp near Oslo - the main transfer point in Norway, from where prisoners were sent to other concentration camps in Europe.
The designation system for the different groups of prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Jew, political, gypsy, Spanish republican, dangerous felon, criminal, war criminal, Jehovah's Witness, homosexual.
Soviet prisoner of war in a concentration camp. In his hand is a homemade wooden bird.
In a separate showcase there are things made by the hands of Russian prisoners of war in Norwegian concentration camps. The Russians exchanged these crafts for food from local residents. Our neighbor in Kristiansand has a whole collection of such wooden birds.
Reconstruction of a partisan radio station. Partisans in southern Norway transmitted information to London about the movements of German troops, the deployment of military equipment and ships. In the north, the Norwegians supplied intelligence to the Soviet Northern Sea Fleet.
The propaganda of the "new Norway" emphasized in every possible way the kinship of the "Nordic" peoples, their rallying in the struggle against British imperialism and the "wild Bolshevik hordes." Norwegian patriots responded by using the symbol of King Haakon in their struggle.
Two walls in the gloomy corridors of the museum are given over to the materials of the criminal case against which seven main Gestapo men were tried in Kristiansand. There have never been such cases in Norwegian judicial practice - the Norwegians tried Germans, citizens of another state.
Rudolf Kerner is the chief of the Kristiansand Gestapo. Former shoemaker teacher. A notorious sadist, in Germany he had a criminal past.
Next to the building of the Archive there is a modest monument to Norwegian patriots who died at the hands of the Gestapo. The local cemetery, not far from this place, rests the ashes of Soviet prisoners of war and British pilots shot down by the Germans in the skies over Kristiansand.
This small, clean house in Kristiansad, next to the road to Stavanger and the port, was the scariest place in the whole of southern Norway during the war years. "Skrekkens hus" - "House of Horror" - that was how it was called in the city. Since January 1942, the headquarters of the Gestapo in southern Norway were located in the building of the city archive. The arrested were brought here, torture chambers were equipped here, from here people were sent to concentration camps and to be shot. Now in the basement of the building where the punishment cells were located and where the prisoners were tortured, there is a museum that tells about what happened during the war years in the building of the state archive.
The layout of the basement corridors has been left unchanged. Only new lights and doors appeared. In the main corridor there is a main exhibition with archival materials, photographs and posters.
Thus, a suspended prisoner was beaten with a chain.
So they tortured with electric stoves. With special zeal of the executioners, a person's hair on his head could catch fire.
In this device, fingers were pinched, nails were pulled out. The machine is authentic - after the liberation of the city from the Germans, all the equipment of the torture chambers remained in place and was preserved.
Nearby - other devices for interrogation with "addiction".
Several basements have been reconstructed - as it looked then, in this very place. This is the cell where the most dangerous prisoners were kept - members of the Norwegian Resistance who fell into the clutches of the Gestapo.
A torture chamber was located in the adjacent room. It reproduces a real scene of torture of a married couple of underground fighters, taken by the Gestapo in 1943 during a communication session with an intelligence center in London. Two Gestapo men torture his wife in front of her husband chained to the wall. In the corner, on an iron beam, another member of the failed underground group is suspended. They say that before interrogations, the Gestapo were pumped up with alcohol and drugs.
Everything was left in the cell as it was then, in 1943. If you turn over that pink stool at the woman's feet, you can see the brand of the Gestapo Kristiansand.
This is a reconstruction of the interrogation - the Gestapo provocateur (left) presents the arrested radio operator of the underground group (he is sitting on the right, handcuffed) with his radio station in a suitcase. In the center sits the chief of the Kristiansand Gestapo, SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Kerner - I will tell you about him later.
In this showcase, belongings and documents of those Norwegian patriots who were sent to the Grini concentration camp near Oslo - the main transfer point in Norway, from where prisoners were sent to other concentration camps in Europe.
The designation system for different groups of prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Jew, political, gypsy, Spanish republican, dangerous felon, criminal, war criminal, Jehovah's Witness, homosexual. The letter N was written on the badge of a Norwegian political prisoner.
There are school trips to the museum. I stumbled upon one of these - several local teenagers were walking along the corridors with Ture Robstad, a volunteer from local residents who survived the war. It is said that about 10,000 schoolchildren visit the Museum in the Archives annually.
Touré tells the guys about Auschwitz. Two boys from the group were there recently on an excursion.
Soviet prisoner of war in a concentration camp. In his hand is a homemade wooden bird.
In a separate window there are things made by the hands of Russian prisoners of war in Norwegian concentration camps. The Russians exchanged these crafts for food from local residents. Our neighbor in Kristiansand had a whole collection of such wooden birds - on the way to school, she often met groups of our prisoners going to work under escort, and gave them her breakfast in exchange for these wooden toys.
Reconstruction of a partisan radio station. Partisans in southern Norway transmitted information to London about the movements of German troops, the deployment of military equipment and ships. In the north, the Norwegians supplied intelligence to the Soviet Northern Sea Fleet.
"Germany is a nation of creators."
The Norwegian patriots had to work in conditions of the strongest pressure on the local population of Goebbels' propaganda. The Germans set themselves the task of the earliest possible Nazification of the country. The Quisling government made efforts for this in the field of education, culture, sports. Even before the war began, the Nazi party of Quisling (Nasjonal Samling) instilled in the Norwegians that the main threat to their security was the military might of the Soviet Union. It should be noted that the 1940 Finnish campaign contributed a lot to the intimidation of the Norwegians about the Soviet aggression in the North. Since coming to power, Quisling only intensified his propaganda with the help of the Goebbels department. The Nazis in Norway convinced the population that only a strong Germany could protect the Norwegians from the Bolsheviks.
Several posters distributed by the Nazis in Norway. "Norges nye nabo" - "New Norwegian Neighbor", 1940 Note the fashionable and nowadays method of "flipping" Latin letters to imitate the Cyrillic alphabet.
"Do you want it to be like this?"
The propaganda of the "new Norway" emphasized in every possible way the kinship of the "Nordic" peoples, their rallying in the struggle against British imperialism and the "wild Bolshevik hordes." Norwegian patriots responded by using the symbol of King Haakon and his image in their struggle. The king's motto “Alt for Norge” was ridiculed in every possible way by the Nazis, who inspired the Norwegians that military difficulties were temporary and Vidkun Quisling was the new leader of the nation.
Two walls in the dark corridors of the museum are given over to the materials of the criminal case, according to which seven main Gestapo men were tried in Kristiansand. There have never been such cases in Norwegian judicial practice - the Norwegians tried Germans, citizens of another state, accused of crimes on the territory of Norway. Three hundred witnesses, about a dozen lawyers, the Norwegian and foreign press took part in the trial. The Gestapo members were tried for torture and mockery of those arrested; there was a separate episode about the execution without trial and investigation of 30 Russians and 1 Polish prisoner of war. On June 16, 1947, all were sentenced to death, which was first and temporarily included in the Norwegian Criminal Code immediately after the end of the war.
Rudolf Kerner is the chief of the Kristiansand Gestapo. Former shoemaker teacher. A notorious sadist, in Germany he had a criminal past. He sent several hundred members of the Norwegian Resistance to concentration camps, is guilty of the death of an organization of Soviet prisoners of war discovered by the Gestapo in one of the concentration camps in southern Norway. He was, like the rest of his accomplices, sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. He was released in 1953 under an amnesty announced by the Norwegian government. He left for Germany, where his tracks were lost.
Next to the building of the Archive there is a modest monument to Norwegian patriots who died at the hands of the Gestapo. The local cemetery, not far from this place, rests the ashes of Soviet prisoners of war and British pilots shot down by the Germans in the skies over Kristiansand. Every year on May 8, the flags of the USSR, Great Britain and Norway are raised on flagpoles next to the graves.
In 1997, the Archive building, from which the State Archives moved to another location, it was decided to sell it to private hands. Local veterans and community organizations came out strongly against, organized themselves into a special committee and got the owner of the building, the state concern Statsbygg, to transfer the historic building to the veterans committee in 1998. Now here, along with the museum I told you about, are the offices of Norwegian and international humanitarian organizations - the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the UN
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The story contains scenes of torture, violence, sex. If this offends your tender soul - don't read, but go fuck ... from here!
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The plot takes place during the Great Patriotic War. A partisan detachment is operating in the territory occupied by the Nazis. The fascists know that there are many women among the partisans, that's just how to figure them out. Finally, they managed to catch the girl Katya when she tried to sketch the layout of the German firing points ...
The captured girl was taken into a small room in the school, where the Gestapo office was now located. Katya was interrogated by a young officer. Besides him, there were several policemen in the room and two vulgar-looking women. Katya knew them, they served the Germans. I just didn't quite know how.
The officer instructed the guards holding the girl to release her, which they did. He gestured for her to sit down. The girl sat down. The officer told one of the girls to bring tea. But Katya refused. The officer took a sip, then lit a cigarette. He offered to Katya, but she refused. The officer began a conversation, and he spoke Russian well.
What is your name?
Katerina.
I know that you were doing intelligence for the Communists. It's true?
But you are so young, so beautiful. You probably got into their service by accident?
Not! I am a Komsomol member and I want to become a communist like my father, Hero of the Soviet Union, who died at the front.
I regret that such a young beautiful girl fell for the bait of the red-ass. At one time, my father served in the Russian army during the First World War. He commanded a company. He has many glorious victories and awards on his account. But when the communists came to power, he was accused of being an enemy of the people for all his services to his homeland and was shot. My mother and I were expected to die of starvation, like children of enemies of the people, but one of the Germans (who was in captivity, and whom his father did not allow to shoot) helped us escape to Germany and even enter the service. I always wanted to be a hero like my father. And now I have come to save my homeland from the communists.
You are a fascist bitch, an invader, a murderer of innocent people ...
We never kill innocent people. On the contrary, we return to them what the red-asses took from them. Yes, we recently hanged two women who set fire to houses where our soldiers temporarily settled. But the soldiers managed to run out, and the owners lost the last thing that the war did not take away from them.
They fought against ...
His people!
Not true!
Okay, let us be invaders. You are now required to answer a few questions. After that, we will determine the penalty for you.
I will not answer your questions!
Okay, then name with whom you are organizing terrorist attacks against German soldiers.
Not true. We've been watching you.
Then why should I answer?
So that the innocent do not suffer.
I won't name anyone ...
Then I will invite the boys to untie your stubborn tongue.
You won't do anything!
We'll see that later. So far there has not been a single case out of 15 and so that nothing happened to us ... Boys to work!
In 1936, the future People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov, who then headed the department of leading party bodies of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, went to the Third Reich for treatment. Although the Soviet media sharply criticized Hitler's policies, medicine in Germany remained one of the best in the world. The son of Georgy Malenkov later reported from his father that Yezhov was sent abroad "for treatment for pederasty."
It is unknown whether the German doctors helped the high-ranking Bolshevik who approached them with such a delicate problem. However, Yezhov's trip was remembered in 1939, when the political "star" of the chief security officer had already sunk down, and the execution cellar of the Lubyanka loomed in front of him. At the plenum of the Central Committee on the case of Nikolai Yezhov, Malenkov was the speaker. Yezhov's biographer Aleksey Polyansky reports that the participants in the plenum, having heard about "unlimited assault, torture, and torture of those under investigation," qualified this practice "as methods borrowed by Yezhov in Nazi Germany." Many researchers consider this story to be fiction, created with the aim of denigrating Yezhov as much as possible.
“There could not have been any kind of“ exchange of experience ”in the conditions of then existing relations between the USSR and Germany. And who would have let Yezhov go for an "internship" at the Gestapo? " - asks the historian Nikita Petrov in the book "Stalin's pet" - Nikolai Yezhov ".
