1973/1974 War Crimes trial in USSR

[LAstryAGAIN]

28 years after World War II there was a War Crimes trial against 4 members of German 57th Police Battalion---a surviors of a massacre of Jews and Partisians in Febuary 1943 in a cowshed in Soligorsk/Salihorsk, Belarus. viewtopic.php?f=38&t=65806&start=15
I think the London Tines Index for 1973/1974 had a brief mention of the Trial..the defendents were found guilty and sentenced to death by firing Squad
ANy other Western Newspaper such as the New York Times have a brief notice of this trial?

[steve248]

1. There were no German-German POWs still being held in the USSR.
2. The 4 men are much more likely to have been Soviet nationals in minor positions.
3. The Times (London) often carried the odd small pieces from Reuters or suchlike that reported such trials. I may have cut it out then but I do not have it now.

[Puck]

It was not the 57th Police Bataillon - it never existed.

You are talking about Schutzmannschafts-Bataillon 57.
It consisted of 80 Germans (of former 1/Pol.Batl. 3) and 300 to 400 Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians.
Commanded by german SS-Ostuba/Oberstleutnant d.SchP Hans Siegling.

[LAstryAGAIN]

thanks for the correction
Schutzmannschafts- translates to?
Was this Schutzmannschafts- part of the Einsatzgruppen murder commandos?

[Manisoa]

The Times (London) occasionally ran brief stories from Reuters or similar news agencies covering court cases. Even if I did sever it back then, I can't seem to find it anywhere.
puppet hockey

[gebhk]

Schutzmannschafts- translates to?

Security squads or teams

[lilycollins]

28 years after World War II there was a War Crimes trial against 4 members of German 57th Police Battalion---a surviors of a massacre of Jews and Partisians in Febuary 1943 in a cowshed in Soligorsk/Salihorsk, Belarus. viewtopic.php?f=38&t=65806&start=15 bitlife
I think the London Tines Index for 1973/1974 had a brief mention of the Trial..the defendents were found guilty and sentenced to death by firing Squad
ANy other Western Newspaper such as the New York Times have a brief notice of this trial?

You can try searching for information about the trial in online archives of major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Guardian, or The Washington Post. Many of these newspapers have online archives that allow you to search for articles by keyword and date range. You may also be able to find information about the trial in historical databases or archives maintained by organizations such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum or Yad Vashem.