Gennady Pocheptsov Biography

Immediately after the liberation, Soviet state security bodies began to search for Nazi criminals and their accomplices involved in the commission of crimes against civilians. In the bench of the defendants were traitors and executioners of the “Young Guards”: the local police investigator Mikhail Kuleshov, secret informant Vasily Gromov and his stepson Gennady Pocheptsov. The military tribunal of the NKVD troops of the Voroshilovgrad region, all three of the accused were sentenced to the highest degree of punishment - execution.

The sentence was publicly carried out on August 19 of the same year. Subsequently, the search for criminals involved in the brutal reprisal against the "newlywords" continued not only in the territory of the Soviet Union, but also in the zone of Soviet military occupation in Germany. By the end of the summer of the year, three more German gendarmes were searched and delivered to Moscow, the former subordinates of E.

all the defendants were kept in the Lefortovo prison. During the investigation, the accused was presented to identify photographs of the executed "young guards". The captain of the gendarmerie E. Renatus, during an interrogation on November 12, confirmed his involvement in the reprisal against the “newlywords”: “[During the interrogation on November 12 of the year, the German gendarme O.

Drevitz testified about his participation in the execution of members of the“ Young Guard ”:“ [I went to the place where Kosheva was lying, and shot him in the head. ” During the same interrogation, Devitz told how Lyubov Shevtsova behaved before execution: “[She drew my attention to myself with her appearance. She had a beautiful slender figure, an oblong face. Despite her youth, she kept herself very courageously.

Before the execution, when I led Shevtsov to the edge of the pit for the execution, she did not utter a word about mercy and calmly, with her head raised, took death. Shevtsova was dressed in a dark blue coat, a handkerchief hung from her head. " Another participant in the Soviet Patriots, the German gendarme E. Schroeder, at the interrogation of November 12, also gave a confession: “[In late September and in November, the USSR State Security Minister sent reports to the country's leadership with a proposal to organize the trial in the case of participants in the brutal reprisal of the underground organization of the young guard.

Stalin is the final results of the search for participants in the brutal reprisal against the "Young Guards". Drevitz, E. Renatus, E. Schröder and J. Schulz are enclosed in ITL for a period of 25 years. In December, O.