Live webcam broadcasts in real time a memorial to the victims of the Nazi occupation of Crimea in 1941-1944 "Red concentration camp". "Krasny" is a state farm near Simferopol, on the territory of which the German-fascist occupation authorities, with the complicity of collaborationists from the local population, organized the largest death camp in Crimea in September 1941.
CONCENTRAL RED - 1941-1944
At the end of October 1941, fascist German troops established a foothold in most of the Crimea and began the transformation of the Crimea into German Gotland. This means that the local population turned out to be superfluous and, at best, the fate of slaves awaited it. As elsewhere in the occupied territories, in the Crimea, the “new order” presupposed the creation of concentration camps. Among the first - in the state farm Krasny near Simferopol.
It was not just a concentration camp, it was an extermination camp, because the main task of the staff of this institution was to destroy as many people as possible in the minimum time with minimum cost and maximum suffering. And they did it diligently.
The prisoners were kept in inhuman conditions, cold, cramped, muddy and daily taken out of the camp for various hard work. On the territory of the camp itself, the inmates built houses, dug a well, or even simply did meaningless work, for example, trying to drive wheelbarrows with stones from one corner to another. They were fed once a day, given a bowl of gourd and a loaf of bread.
But this was not enough for the fascists. People were poisoned in gas chambers, taken to the vicinity of the concentration camp, shot and buried, still not all of the execution sites have been found. After the execution, the bodies, or even living people, were thrown into the wells.
Who are those nonhumans who killed more than 15,000 people in the Red concentration camp near Simferopol? Contrary to popular belief, these are not only Crimean Tatar collaborators from the 152nd Schumanschaft battalion of the auxiliary police of the order - "Schuma", although they were the majority. The trash who came to the Crimea together with the Germans and local renegades of various nationalities and religions also served there.
In April 1944, when our troops were already at Perekop, mass executions began in the Krasnoye concentration camp. More than 2,000 prisoners were killed in a few days. On April 13, Soviet troops liberated Simferopol and the relatives of the prisoners rushed to look for their loved ones. It is impossible to look without tears at the footage of the chronicle with the rows of bodies that were raised from the wells, at people who are looking for relatives among them, and at those who have already found them.
In 1944, not all bodies were raised from the wells. Warmth came and for sanitary reasons the work had to be stopped. But the materials collected by the investigators in 1945 were sent to Nuremberg.
At the Nuremberg trials, materials about the atrocities of the German fascists and their accomplices in Crimea, the massacre of Soviet people, including women and children, in the camp of the Krasny state farm in the Simferopol region became one of the reasons for the conviction of the former commander of the 17th Army, Colonel-General Erwin Jenecke.