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02-04-2011, 05:37 PM
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Re: Hung and Labelled
"We are partisans and shot at German soldiers." The young woman's name was Masha Bruskina, a Jewish Soviet partisan hanged with two other partisans in Minsk on October 26, 1941. |
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02-06-2011, 10:23 AM
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Re: Hung and Labelled
They may have been partisans (insurgents). The soviets infiltrated and forcefully recruited civilians at the point of death. Whether death by Nazis or Bolsheviks. The civilians behind what would later be "the iron curtain" were screwed.
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02-06-2011, 10:55 AM
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Re: Hung and Labelled
Here is a slightly more extended version of Masha's story: Masha Bruskina was a Russian teenage female partisan. She was a 17 year old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belorussia (Belarus), since the German invasion of Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. Her execution and that of the two men hanged with her took place on the 26th of October 1941 in the city of Minsk. In the photos of her, you will see that she has blond hair, but her natural colour was dark. She dyed her hair when she started to work for the underground. Witnesses to her hanging testified that Masha struggled hard and lost control of her bladder and bowels. After hanging for three days, she and the men were taken down and only when her body was traditionally washed before her burial by local people and members of her family, did her dark hair show up. She worked as a nurse in a military hospital and was a member of an underground cell which aided Soviet officers hospitalised there to escape and join the partisans. The members of this cell were informed on and quickly rounded up. Masha and two of her male comrades, Volodya Sherbateivich and Krill Trous, were sentenced to death. They were led through the streets with Masha wearing a large placard proclaiming that they were partisans and hanged one at a time, Masha first, by the 707 Infanteriedivision, who meticulously filmed the proceedings |
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02-06-2011, 12:06 PM
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Re: Hung and Labelled
No it doesn't. My German is a little rusty (the top portion is Deutsch), but it basically says we are partisans, and killed German soldiers, and I think the last part basically says this will be your fate too (or something to that effect)
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