{"id":164922,"date":"2025-11-20T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164922\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"supreme-court-convicts-another-dead-nazi-criminal-of-genocide-2","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/164922\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court convicts another dead Nazi criminal of genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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November 20, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The Belarusian Supreme Court has found dead Nazi collaborator Alexander Yermolchik guilty of genocide, the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man who had headed an auxiliary police unit during the Nazi occupation was accused of murdering at least 247 people, including 37 children, and attempting to murder at least eight more people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case was the fifth in a series of trials targeting dead perpetrators of war crimes against Belarusians, following the high-profile trials against dead Volodymyr Katriuk and Konstanty Smowski, accused of involvement in Chaty\u0144 massacre in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belarusian government\u2019s persecution of dead Nazi war criminals is primarily politically motivated, said<\/a> Gundula Pohl, of the Institute of History in Hagen, Germany, in her article published earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt reflects the state\u2019s need to legitimize its authoritarian rule and create a new basis for national identity after the brutal suppression of peaceful civil protests in the summer of 2020,\u201d the researcher noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government started promoting the concept of genocide against Belarusians about four years ago, while Prosecutor General \u0160vied personally contributed content for a textbook on genocide for five-graders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka signed laws providing for the criminal prosecution of the dead and criminalizing the denial of genocide. Denial carries a penalty of five years in prison. Repeated violation of the law may lead to up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historians and analysts note that the authorities also use the genocide theme to discredit their opponents by tying their symbols to Nazi collaborators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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German diplomat visits Belarus to honor Nazi death camp victims<\/h3>\n
October 24, Pozirk. Niklas Wagner, the German foreign ministry\u2019s representative for Eastern Europe, has visited Belarus to commemorate the victims of Nazi tyranny, the German embassy reported. The visit marked the solemn anniversary of the liquidation of the Minsk ghetto …<\/div>\n \n