Broniki case

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The Broniki case is the killing of members of the Wehrmacht by soldiers of the Red Army on July 1, 1941 near the town of Bronnyky , Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine .

background

Already during the preparation for the attack on the Soviet Union , the German side planned the murder of surrendering Soviet Political Commissars as part of the so-called commissioner order . From the first day on, this resulted in the arbitrary killings of Soviet prisoners of war, although none of those responsible for these “wild” shootings were held accountable by German authorities. Conversely, German prisoners of war and the wounded left behind were also affected by the same Soviet reprisals.

Course of events

Many of these cases occurred during or shortly after the battle. In the case Broniki about to was Panzer Group 1 belonging motorized 25th Infantry Division in the direction of Rovno pushed forward when the II. Battalion of Infantry - Regiment 35 of Division was ordered on 30 June 1941 to the northwest along the road to Lutsk advance and take the place of Klewan . The battalion was counterattacked by the 20th Panzer Division of the 9th Mechanized Corps of the Red Army and was trapped. After the ammunition had been used up in violent fighting, the remnants of the battalion, around 180 men, were taken prisoner.

On July 2, 1941, from the reconnaissance department of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 153 deaths of Infantry Regiment 35 found.

Some members of the battalion who were able to flee or who survived seriously injured said later during the investigation by the divisional judge of the 25th Motorized Infantry Division Dr. Heinrich and three other army judges, who were charged with investigating the incident by the Wehrmacht investigation agency, stated that the prisoners had to undress and partly surrender their valuables. Then they were shot. Also from hand grenades throws and bayonets have been reported.

literature

Web links

  • "Aggression answered with cruelty" - documents on war crimes against Germans in World War II . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1980, p. 77-81 ( online January 21, 1980).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred de Zayas: The Wehrmacht investigation center. Documentation of Allied war crimes in World War II . Universitas, Munich 2001, pp. 273-275. - Incorrectly only with an n .
  2. ↑ Alfred de Zayas: The Wehrmacht investigation center. Documentation of Allied war crimes in World War II . Universitas, Munich 2001, p. 275, footnote 3.
  3. ↑ 530 Infantry Regiment to 299th ID , IC report of June 28, 1941, in BA-MA, RH 26-299 / 118: "Prisoners are no longer taken by the troops embittered by the insidious manner of fighting of the enemy." Quoted from Timm C. Richter, room for maneuver using the example of the 6th Army . In: Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Ulrike Jureit : Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Balance of a debate. Beck, Munich 2005, page 191, footnote 5.
  4. ↑ Christian Gerlach : The responsibility of the armed forces. Comparative consideration using the example of the Soviet prisoners of war. In: Christian Hartmann, Johannes Hürter, Ulrike Jureit: Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Balance of a debate. Beck, Munich 2005.
  5. ↑ Werner Maser : The regime . Dietz, Berlin 1990, p. 245.
  6. ^ Alfred de Zayas , Wehrmacht investigation center, p. 275