“If we had wings we would fly to you”. Kiril Feferman

p. 186.

      72 Stanitsy Labinskaya and Gulkevich. Conversation of the ESC member V. Grizodubov with Mariya Doragan, June 4, 1943, YVA: M.33/298, p. 17. Questioning of Anastasy Gur (Kondrat′ev), May 15, 1944, GARF: 7021/16/435, p. 130.

      73 Stanitsy Bekeshevskaya and Sovetskaya. Statement of the Commission of Suvorovsky Raion, GARF: 7021/17/12, p. 3. Statement of the Commission of Stanitsa Sovetskaya, August 15, 1943, GARF: 7021/16/435, p. 184.

      74 Statement of the Commission of Stanitsa of Novo-Aleksandrovskaya, GARF: 7021/17/11, p. 28.

      75 Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoe village. Statement of Lidiya Brailovskaya, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, p. 33.

      76 Statement of the Commission of Stanitsa of Novo-Aleksandrovskaya, GARF: 7021/17/11, p. 28. Statement of the Commission of the Village Menzhinskoe, June 27, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, pp. 155–156.

      77 Menzhinskoe village, stanitsa Bekeshevskaya. Statement of the Commission of the Village Menzhinskoe, June 27, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, pp. 155–156. See also Statement of the Commission of Suvorovsky Raion, GARF: 7021/17/12, p. 3.

      78 Stanitsa Bekeshevskaya. Statement of the Commission of the Village Menzhinskoe, June 27, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, pp. 155–156.

      79 Stanitsa Sovetskaya and Troitskoe village. Statement of the Commission of Stanitsa Sovetskaya, GARF: 7021/16/435, p. 184. Testimony of Lilia German, August 16, 1943, GARF: 7021/8/27, p. 55.

      80 Villages Olginskoe and Stepnoe. Statement of A. Kureshov, June 25, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, p. 162. Statement of the Commission of Stepnoe Village, July 22, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/11, p. 147.

      81 On the Einsatzgruppen, see C. Earl Hilary, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 4–8; See also Peter Klein (ed.), Die Einsatzgruppen in der bezetzten Sowjetunion 1941/42: Die Tätigkeits- und Lagerberichte des Chefs der Sicherpolizei und des SD (Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1997), in particular Andrej Angrick’s “Die Einsatzgruppe D,” ibid., 88–110.

      82 Stanitsa Aleksandriiskaya, Sukhoe village. Statement of the Commission of Stanitsa Aleksandriiskaya, GARF: 7021/17/9, p. 12. Statements of the inhabitants of Sukhoe village: N. Zhdanova, A. Parashuk, O. Sankova, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, p. 137.

      83 Izobilnensky raion, Stavropol territory. Statement of the Commission of Izobilnensky Raion, June 29, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, pp. 121–122.

      84 Villages Beluevsky in Libknekhtovsky raion (?) and Blagodatnoe. Statement of Nina Zaitseva, 1943, GARF: 7021/17/10, p. 166. Statement of the Commission of Shpakovsky Raion. GARF: 7021/17/12, p. 55.

      85 Clarification of Krivokhatsky, the Oberbürgermeister of Stavropol, sent to the starosta of Spitsevka village to inquire about the property of the murdered citizens, October 1942. In Stavropol′e v period nemetsko-fashistskoi okkupatsii (avgust 1942–ianvar′ 1943): Dokumenty i materialy Komiteta po delam arkhivov Stavropol′skogo kraia, Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Stavropol′skogo kraia, Tsentra dokumentatsii noveishei istorii Stavropol′skogo kraia, ed. Valeriia Vodolazskaia, Mariia Krivneva, and Nelli Mel′nik (Stavropol: Knizhnoe izdatel′stvo, 2000), 48.

      86 Anlage zu II./Pol.Rgt., Einsatz- und Tätigkeitsbericht des Batallions für die Zeit vom 1.–31.8.1942 (Auszug aus dem KTB), September 12, 1942, Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv (henceforth RGVA): 1358/1/9, p. 106. Cf. Merkblatt für das Verhalten gegenüber kaukasischen Völkern, no date, RGVA: 1323/2/263, p. 219.