2892 killed at Kortelisy 1942?

[Marcus]

Does anyone have any more information on the destruction of Kortelisy mentioned in the below quote from http://ukrhistory.tripod.com/page-20.html, thanks.

But the world never heard about the Ukrainian village of Kortelisy which the Germans burned to the ground on September 23, 1942 and killed all its 2,892 population of men, women and children. There were about 459 villages in Ukraine completely destroyed with all or part of their population by the German Army with 97 in Volhynia Province, 32 in Zhitomir province, 21 in Chernihiv province, 17 in Kiev province and elsewhere. There were at least 27 Ukrainian villages in which every man, woman and child was killed and the village completely destroyed by the Germans. (Ukrainska RSR u Velykyi Vitchyznianiy Viyni, vol.3, p. 150).

/Marcus

[Carnaro]

Marcus

This seem a typical example of a so-called "antipartisan op, during which preferably women, children and old peasants were targeted, maybe just for giving an example, or so on....

Quoted from Curilla, page. 684:

ingesamt wurden in Kortelisi 2.875 Bewohner, darunter 1.624 Kinder ermordet. Nach Zeugenaussagen wurden 800 Frauen, Kinder und Alte in einen Teich getrieben und erschossen. Die Schulkinder trieb man in die Schule und steckte sie an. 500 bis 600 Menschen wurden in eine Kirche eingeschlossen und verbrannt, weitere 400 bis 500 Menschen erschoss man an einer Grube. Insgesamt gibt es 6 Massengraeber in Kortelisi. Nur wenigen Menschen gelangt es zu ueberleben. Deren Aussagen nennen als Taeter mehrfach Wehrmachtssolaten, nicht dagegen Polizisten. Gleichwohl ist nach den vorstehend zitierten Belegen davon auszugehen, dass die Reserve-Poliziekompnie "Nuernberg" die Aktion durchfuehrte

The perpetrators were men of the Polizei-Kompanie "Nuernberg".
The instructions, given to the company by the Stab/Polizei-Regiment 15 on September 22, expressely ordered: "Kp.Nuernberg vernichtet Kortelisi".
The testimonies were released before the ZStL or StA Kiel/or Nuernberg. Several other sources mentions this slaughter.
Btw, there's no mention of any casuality suffered by the company during this "fight": a rather different context compared to which the company encountred just a couple of years after, when it remained closed within the pocket of Brody.

Max

[Marcus]

Thanks Max. Was Polizei-Kompanie Nürnberg attached to Polizei-Regiment 15 at the time?

/Marcus

[Carnaro]

yes, It was, but only occasionally. More precisely, the kp was attached - for the action in questions - to the Polizei-Bataillon 310 (III/Polizei-Regiment 15), which, in its turn had assigned its three companies to raiding the villages of Borysowka, Borki and Zablocie.
It is not clear, indeed, to what authority the company was formally assigned: probably under the KdO in Brest, Dressler, or maybe directly to the SSPF Wappenhans (Guenther), or depending on the circumstances.
During Kortelisy it answered to Maj. Holling of the PB 310.

Max

[Marcus]

Thanks again Max.

/Marcus