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Feodosia Massacre: Soviet Killing of Nazi German Prisoners in Crimea, 1942
The Feodosia massacre refers to the killing of German prisoners by Soviet forces after the Red Army recaptured the Crimean port city during the Second World War. The violence unfolded in a city already marked by earlier atrocities committed under Nazi occupation.
On 3 November the 46th Infantry Division together with the 170 Infantry division captured Feodosia. This mid-sized city on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea had a pre-war population of 28,000. The killings of Jews in the city began on 16 November 1941. On 3 December, Erich von Manstein, the commander of Army Group South, gave the…
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