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Nowo-Archangelsk, Russia: killing and ill-treatment of Russian POWs and allied nationals....
Catalogue reference: WO 309/1123
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This record is about the Nowo-Archangelsk, Russia: killing and ill-treatment of Russian POWs and allied nationals.... dating from 1946 July-Nov in the series War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1946 July-Nov
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Nowo-Archangelsk, Russia: killing and ill-treatment of Russian POWs and allied nationals.
Includes 10 photographs depicting: HQ BAOR: War Crimes Group (NWE); Adolf Mindermann, together with others (named), accused of ill treating Russian prisoners of war and mass killing of two hundred and fifty Jews at Nowo-Archangelsk, Russia, between December 1941- February 1942. Dated 1946.
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- BAOR WC/C/503
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