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November 5, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The Supreme Court will open proceedings on November 19 against dead Nazi criminal Konstantin Smowski accused of involvement in Chaty\u0144 massacre during WW2, state-run media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarusian Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied forwarded 49 volumes of case files to the court in mid-October following his earlier announcement of upcoming similar trials of dead Nazi perpetrators as part of the government\u2019s campaign to highlight the genocidal dimensions of World War II massacres committed by the Nazis and their collaborators in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators found \u201cconclusive evidence\u201d to prove Smowski’s guilt, including interrogation protocols, testimonies of surviving villagers and other archival documents, including German ones, said Valeryj Ta\u0142ka\u010do\u016d, chief investigator at the Prosecutor General’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian-born Smowski fought against Germany as a Polish army soldier but after his capture he served as deputy commander of Germany\u2019s 118 auxiliary police battalion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His involvement in the 22 March 1943 Chaty\u0144 massacre was known long before the Belarusian prosecutors launched their investigation. After the end of WW II, the man emigrated to the United States, where he died in 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is another one in a series of trials targeting dead perpetrators of war crimes against Belarusians, following the conviction of Vladimir Katriuk (1921\u20132015) in mid-March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Supreme Court convicts dead Nazi criminal of genocide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 5, Pozirk. The Supreme Court will open proceedings on November 19 against dead Nazi criminal Konstantin Smowski accused of involvement in Chaty\u0144 massacre during WW2, state-run media reported. Belarusian Prosecutor General Andrej \u0160vied forwarded 49 volumes of case files to the court in mid-October following his earlier announcement of upcoming similar trials of dead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[14,13],"class_list":["post-112624","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSupreme Court to try another dead Nazi criminal on November 19 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 5, Pozirk. 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