Medvedev Forest massacre

Wann

11. Sept. 1941

Art

Massaker

Tote

157

Koordinaten

53.02° N, 36.16° E

Description

1941 NKVD mass execution of Oryol prisoners

1941 NKVD mass execution of Oryol prisoners

The Medvedev Forest massacre or Orel massacre was a mass execution in the Soviet Union carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD on 11 September 1941. Less than three months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, 157 political prisoners incarcerated at Oryol Prison were executed in Medvedev Forest, just outside the Russian city of Oryol, on the personal order of Joseph Stalin.

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