Talk:Dzyatlava massacre

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Hi, regarding this article, I found a newspaper article about the former soldier Vassili Arula, from the 36th battalion, responding to the allegations by Efraim Zuroff. According to him, the ones who shot the detainees were germans and 'poles in black uniforms'. And in the august of 1942 in Novogrudok, their job was to guard the horse stables with prisoners, and there might have been jews. Why they were there or why they were prisoners, he cant say.

His story is confirmed by the history of the 36th police battalion, from the National Archive in Tallinn. According to this they reached Novogrudok on 5th or 6th of August, after which they got a few days off. Then they were ordered to fight against partisans, leaving the base with cars and then always coming back. There isnt anything mentioned about escorting or killing jews in the battalion history, written by their leader Harald Riipalu.

Then come the NKVD interrogations. Its known about one of the witnesses, Rudolf Mäeorg that NKVD got everything out of him at gunpoint - and it later turned out that he didnt even serve in the 36th police battalion.

the article in estonian is here: http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/211338

oh yeah and the interrogation in russian, which somebody cited as one of the sources, Mäeorg's "confession" is included in it: http://www.vpk-news.ru/article.asp?pr_sign=archive.2006.145.articles.history_01

Terehommikust 15:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust By Israel Gutman

does not mention either Dzyatlava or Dzyatlava massacre or Djatlovo. Nor does google books have anything on it, either does google scholar. Please provide a proper and reliable source for the article. Thanks!--Termer 09:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)