Hanged Soviet Civilians, Operation Barbarossa

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Mark Cartwright
by Imperial War Museums
published on 12 March 2025
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A photograph showing Soviet civilians at Velizh hanged by Axis forces after the battle of Smolensk in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

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