Most of the other Cossack and German officers of the Cossack units were also executed. Repatriation Memorial, Southampton Corfu 7th October from Rangoon and 11th December Almanzora 17th October from Singapore Queen Elizabeth 18th October from New York & 5th November from Halifax Nova Scotia & 27th November from Halifax Nova Scotia Indrapoera 18th October from Rangoon As they were being rounded up, many displayed documents proving that they were citizens of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, or registered stateless with Nanssen passports issued by the League of Nations. There were two reasons for this. The fate of the Russians whose return they enforced was an unfortunate but unavoidable sacrifice to the greater aim.. 1945/10/30. First, Britain wished to. CANNON- Thomas M., Sr. born September 8, 1945 of Hicksville passed away on September 2, 2017. Ile de France (S.S.) Southampton. THE VOYAGES OF HMS ALMANZORA 1915-1918 (More detailed plots follow in the text) (Maps prepared using Journey Plotter, developed by Maikel. The passenger list informs us that 241 people made the journey, including eleven stowaways and six distressed seamen. Southampton. [58], Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II, Newland, Samuel, Cossacks in the German Army (Portland: Frank Cass, 1991) 112 - 121, Mueggenberg, 243 244, 252 254, 276 - 283, Knight Robert "Transnational memory from Bleiburg to London (via Buenos Aires and Grozny)" pages 39-53 from, Solzhenitsyn, A. People in two barracks were shot with machine guns on the same day. Harald Stadler/Martin Kofler/Karl C.Berger (2005). Britains SOE (Special Operations Executive, an organization created in November 1940 to encourage, direct, and supply resistance groups in countries occupied by the Axis) had distributed leaflets to Russians in the German armed forces promising that Russians surrendering to the Allies could receive political asylum if they wished. The event was documented in publications such as Nicholas Bethell's The Last Secret: The Delivery to Stalin of Over Two Million Russians by Britain and the United States (1974). Ultimately, the fate of the Cap Arcona and its passengers was a tragic consequence of the fog of war. [11], It was in the context of the wish to remain on good terms with Stalin that, according to Edward Peterson, the US chose to hand over several hundred thousand German prisoners to the Soviet Union in May 1945 as a "gesture of friendship". Kontra has been republished several times in Polish, but has apparently never been translated into English. The SS Ormonde was an ex-troop ship that arrived in Britain with a significant numbers of Caribbean migrants. Some were executed immediately. In Italy, Field Marshal Alexander finally told a Soviet Repatriation Mission under General Basilov that he would not be allowed to bully unwilling Ukrainians into returning to Russia. accused Tolstoy of scholarly misconduct, writing that in May 1945 British policy in Austria was dictated by Operation Beehive, which entitled preparing for a possible war with Yugoslavia and perhaps the Soviet Union. Link to this speech In context Individually. Nevertheless, the prisoner hierarchy continued on board the ship. [17], In the early 1990s in Odessa's Prokhorovsky Square, where the "road of death" to the extermination camps for Odessa's Jews and Gypsies had begun on the outskirts of the city in 1941, a memorial commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was created. By the time the Romanians had taken the city, between 80,000 and 90,000 Jews remained, the rest having fled or been evacuated by the Soviets. The purpose of the clandestine organisation was to facilitate the escape of Nazi war criminals and their assets through ratlines to South America and the Middle East. [citation needed], After the death of Stalin, a mass partial amnesty (Amnesty of 1953) was granted for some labor camp inmates on 27 March 1953 with the end of the Gulag system. The first book about the subject published on official documentation was Operation Keelhaul in 1973 by the Austrian-born American author Julius Epstein, which was based on U.S. sources and primarily dealt with the American role in the repatriation. Headlines such as Friendly fires of hell have been the norm thanks, in part, to a surprising lack of scholarly attention. [13][14][15], From January 12 to February 20, 1942, the remaining 19,582 Jews were deported to Berezivka Raion of Odessa Oblast. [13], Some Jews were sent to work in the villages, and about half of them survived the occupation. [33] Bethell was critical of the repatriation, accusing the British government of "intentionally over-fulfilling" the Yalta agreement by handing over people who were not Soviet citizens, but was careful in his treatment of the evidence. [22] Nikolai Tolstoy quotes a telegram by General Harold Alexander, sent to the Combined Chiefs of Staff, noting "50,000 Cossacks including 11,000 women, children and old men". [7], Across the Marazlievskaya street, occupiers broke into the apartments of Odessa citizens and shot or hanged all residents found, without exception. [37] The 1970s were a period when dtente had become fashionable in some quarters and many on the right believed the West was losing the Cold War. [32] In 1945, Lord Aldington had served as chief of staff of V Corps that carried out the repatriation. Search here. An estimated 4,000 prisoners perished. More than 70 years on from the tragic sinking, crucial questions remain regarding the role of British forces in the final days of the Second World War. The blast killed 67 people, including the Romanian military commandant, 16 other Romanian officers, and four German naval officers. Discover the art of the Van de Veldes at the Queen's House, See the world's greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum, From fearless fighters to female activists, join us to celebrate the contributions and resilience of women throughout history, Why do artists draw, and what can their sketches teach us about their skills and techniques? First, Britain wished to halt the Soviet advance as it swept ever further west. A sergeant mixed barbiturates into their coffee. The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.. Odessa was a port on the Black Sea in the Ukrainian SSR.On 22 June 1941, the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union. Daniel Long does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. [56] Thus, the British called the Vlasov Army "White Russians" even through General Andrei Vlasov and his men were all former Red Army POWs who had decided to fight for Germany. [19][unreliable source?] Indeed, once the camp was emptied in mid-April, the local politicians no longer concerned themselves with the fate of the prisoners now held in squalor aboard the Cap Arcona in nearby Neustadt Bay. Soviet Repatriation Commissions were established throughout Western Europe, staffed by agents of the NKVD and SMERSH. [28], Thousands of Russians, many of them Cossacks, were transported at the height of armed hostilities in 1944 to Murmansk in an operation that also led to the sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz.[29]. [49], After four years of investigation, in October 1990 the Cowgill committee published its report, The Repatriations from Austria in 1945 whose conclusions largely echoed those reached by Knight in 1986 that British policy in Austria was largely governed by preparations for a possible war with Yugoslavia and perhaps the Soviet Union as well. 1945/10/22. One British officer told the Cossacks, "I assure you, on my word of honour as a British officer, that you are just going to a conference". As the Soviets emerged victorious in the civil war, many Cossack veterans, fearing reprisals and the Bolsheviks de-Cossackization policies, fled abroad to countries in Central and Western Europe. In this case, the latest intelligence on the ships in Neustadt Bay never reached the pilots who attacked them. British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, who, Tolstoy reports, was responsible for initiating the whole policy, first reached agreement with the Soviets on repatriation at the Moscow Conference in October 1944. Random House. Later that year, the Cossack cavalry division was deployed to Axis-occupied Yugoslavia to fight Tito's Partisans. [47] About Tolstoy's allegations that Macmillan was a major war criminal, the Cowgill committee concluded that Macmillan's role in the repatriations was very small and largely dictated by military considerations. Alley of the "Righteous Among the World". On October 22, 1941, in the building of the NKVD on the Marazlievskaya street where the Romanian military commander's office and the headquarters of the Romanian 10th Infantry Division had settled to occupy the city, a radio-controlled mine exploded. They beat them again, and threw them onto the floor of the trucks. [45] Both the Yugoslav and Soviet governments believed the British were intending to use Axis collaborationist forces such as the Cossack corps against them. As a result, the majority of Cossack soldiers were mobilized against the Red Army. Nevertheless, it is now possible to reconstruct what really happened including Britains role in the tragedy with a closer examination of archival files. Large numbers of Russians who had been POWs or slave laborers welcomed the opportunity to return to their homes and loved ones and they willfully went back to the Soviet Union. Art. 1, No. From that day on, the entire Jewish population of the city was sent to concentration camps, organized by Romanians in the countryside, primarily to the village of Bogdanovka (now in the Mykolayiv region). Click Continue below to continue processing your order with the Library team. This is a thoroughly documented account of the British role in repatriation. [21], On 12 June 18,000 Cossacks were handed over to the Soviets near the town of Judenburg, Austria; of those in custody, some ten officers and 5060 Cossacks escaped the guards' cordon with hand grenades, and hid in the nearby woods. [53] Under the Yalta agreement, the Soviets were to repatriate American and British POWs that came into Red Army hands in exchange for the American and British governments were to repatriate people from the Soviet Union who fell into their hands. 1945/10/18. One of the first studies of this grim episode was Peter Huxley-Blythes The East Came West (The Caxton Printers, 1964). In turn, this has led to a number of conspiracy theories about the sinking. On June 24, 1944, Patrick Dean, the Assistant Legal Adviser of the Foreign Office, declared: In due course all those with whom the Soviet authorities desire to deal must be handed over to them, and we are not concerned with the fact that they may be shot or otherwise more harshly dealt with than they might be under English law.. In early 1943, most of the Cossack units fighting with the German Army were consolidated into the First Cossack Cavalry Division under the command of General Helmuth von Pannwitz. Make a life-giving gesture Je connais un certain nombre de noms de bateaux et des dates de dpart. This indicated that the Arcona was intended as a temporary extension of the original Neuengamme, albeit one that was largely out of sight and out of mind. Near the end of the war, many Cossacks fled to western Europe, fearing the Red Army, in hopes of surrendering instead to the military forces of the United States or the UK. ISBN: 0-684-15635-0. Both informed the British that camp prisoners were being held aboard ships in Neustadt Bay. Acta Musei Sabesiensis, 6, 2014, p. 529-549. p.140, Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II, German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, "I Cosacchi in Italia, 1944'45 Atti dei Convegni di Verzegnis", "Repatriation The Dark Side of World War II", "Two new studies quarrel violently over a wartime tragedy and the legal battle it provoked", "Prilog istraivanju problema Bleiburga i krinih putova (u povodu 60. obljetnice)", "Kaznenopravni i povijesni aspekti bleiburkog zloina", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation_of_Cossacks_after_World_War_II&oldid=1142402300, These events provide the historical context for the. [6], The Cossacks who remained in Russia endured more than a decade of continual repression, e.g., the portioning of the lands of the Terek, Ural and Semirechye hosts, forced cultural assimilation and repression of the Russian Orthodox Church, deportation and, ultimately, the Soviet famine of 193233. Nor did it provide that those who had never been citizens of the USSR should be delivered to Stalin. We have [2] The primary perpetrators were Romanian soldiers, Einsatzgruppe SS and local ethnic Germans.[3][4]. It was one of the worst massacres in the Ukrainian territory. The late Julius Epstein, of the Hoover Institution, twice went to court in an effort to dislodge records relating to this topic. Beloved husband of Carolyn. The Lienz Cossack repatriation was exceptional, because the Cossacks forcefully resisted their repatriation to the USSR; one Cossack noted, "The NKVD or the Gestapo would have slain us with truncheons, the British did it with their word of honour. [19], Cossacks were included in the hundreds who were repatriated to the Soviet Union from Marseilles in 1946. 1 All men of Jewish origin, aged 18 to 50 years, are obliged within 48 hours from the date of publication of this order to report to the city prison (Bolshefontanskaya road), having with them the essentials for existence. In fact, all of the records were publicly released in 1972 after the Public Records Act 1967 reduced the amount of time they were to be kept secret and I have spent a great deal of time researching them. Loving father of Thomas Jr. (Danielle) and Stacey Zaba (Mark). In Berezivka, groups were forced to walk to Domanevka, Bogdanovka, Golta and other concentration camps. Committee Member - MNF Research Advisory Committee, PhD Scholarship - Uncle Isaac Brown Indigenous Scholarship. To put myself in a wider group, I got my . The Gulag Archipelago. [9], Another Cossack group whose fate became tied with the Germans consisted of approximately 25,000 Cossack refugees and irregulars who evacuated the North Caucasus alongside the Wehrmacht in 1943. Morris argued that if Britain broke the terms of the Yalta Agreement by granting asylum to the Cossacks, then the Soviet Union might likewise break the terms of the Yalta agreement and refuse to repatriate the hundreds of thousands of British POWs whom the Germans had concentrated in POW camps in eastern Germany (it was German policy to build POW camps in eastern Germany as it made it more difficult for POWs who escaped to reach western Europe). Orion (RMS) Southampton. [25][26] Epstein states that the prisoners put up considerable resistance: First, they refused to leave their barracks when ordered to do so. [43] The novelist Robert Graves publicly stated: "Harold Macmillan, he's a murderer you know". Odessa brings to the attention of the population of Odessa and its surroundings that after the terrorist act committed against the Military Command on October 22, on the day of October 23, 1941, were shot: for every German or Romanian officer and civilian official 200 Bolsheviks, and for every German or Romanian soldier 100 Bolsheviks. For a few days the British supplied them with food; meanwhile, the Red Army's advance units approached to within a few miles east, rapidly advancing to meet the Allies. We use cookies to ensure you have the best browsing experience and to help us improve our website. Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 05:21. [34] Though Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago did not deal specifically with the repatriation of the Cossacks, instead dealing with the repatriation of people to the Soviet Union in general, the book increased popular interest in the subject, as did his claim that Anglo-American policy towards the Soviet Union was driven in a fundamentally sinister and conspiratorial way, punishing the alleged friends of the West such as the Vlasov Army and the Cossacks while rewarding its enemies such as the Soviet Union. But the speed of the Soviet advance meant that the normal protocols and procedures that had been well established throughout the war fell to the wayside as British troops raced for their objective. Upon discovering that they would be repatriated, many escaped, some probably aided by their Allied captors;[11] some passively resisted, and others killed themselves. [39] John Joliffe, a conservative Catholic British intellectual whose fund-raising help build the monument accused "the British government and their advisors of merciless inhumanity", and ignoring the fact that Churchill was a Conservative went on to blame the repatriations on "the hypocrisy and feebleness of progressive leftists who turned a blind eye to the communist enslavement of Eastern Europe. It is the unedited footage taken by an American army camera unit at a prisoner of war camp in southern Germany in February 1946. The British then hit them with rifle butts until they lay unconscious, and threw them, like sacks of potatoes, in the trucks. As Tolstoy relates: Even the Soviet authorities who received them were astonished that the British should have included these people in the consignment. [46] Cowgill believed that the honour of the British Army had been smeared, but Booker was a supporter of Tolstoy when he joined the committee in 1986. From across the sea, an art revolution is coming. The opening of the museum took place on June 22, 2009. Second, by halting the Soviets here, British forces would be able to liberate Denmark and restore the Danish monarchy. The experiences of the prisoners released by the Soviets was considerably different depending on whether they were liberated during late-January to early-February in Poland and East Prussia, or during April and May in central and northern Germany. [6][11], The registration carried out by the Romanian administration in late 1941 counted about 60,000 Jews in Odesa. High-ranking officers were tried in Moscow, and then executed. Tel: +44 (0)20 8312 6516 (during Library opening hours). almanzora odessa 1945. [36], Subsequently, Count Nikolai Tolstoy published The Victims of Yalta in 1977, which was described by a critical historian, D.R. When repatriating the members of the 15th Cossack Cavalry Corps, the British deceived them by telling them that they would first be sent to Italy and ultimately to Canada. It was in this condition that the prisoners were brought to another Soviet boat for a speedy return to Stalin's hangmen. We knew very well what his, that is, Stalin's priority and why. Coverers, as well as persons who know about this and do not report, are punishable by death. [50] In a column published in the Sunday Times on 21 October 1990, Robert Harris accused the Cowgill committee of a "whitewash", and maintained that Tolstoy's claims that Britain had willfully sent thousands of people to their deaths in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia was still correct. The S. S. Almanzora (HMT) [His Majesty's Transport] is a dirty old troop-ship from the first war, painted grey it has one funnel & is not very big. On October 16, following a two-month siege of Odessa, the Germans and Romanians captured the city. [12], Although the agreement for the deportation of all "Soviet" citizens did not include White Russian emigres who had fled during the Bolshevik Revolution before the establishment of the USSR, all Cossack prisoners of war were later demanded. In response to the appeal of the verdict filed by the son of Alexianu, on November 5, 2006, Bucharest Court of Appeal confirmed the verdict of war criminals to death, dated May 17, 1946. To help resolve the raging controversy, Brigadier Anthony Cowgill formed a committee consisting of himself; a former diplomat and "Russia hand" Lord Brimelow, and Christopher Booker, a journalist well known for his conservative views. It was not until 1942 when Ostministerium openly began employing Cossack migrs for propaganda and administrative purposes. [27], Several hundred Cossacks were repatriated to the Soviet Union from camps close to Venice in 1947. 'Almanzora' was launched in 1914 and commissioned in the following year, like her sister ship Andes (SLR1410), as an armed merchant cruiser, attached to the Tenth Cruiser Squadron. In exile, they formed their own anti-communist organisations or joined other Russian migr groups such as the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). The Museum of the Holocaust in Odessa was created in accordance with the decision of the Council of the Odessa Regional Association of Jews, former prisoners of the ghetto and Nazi concentration camps. Jews participated in the struggle of the Odessa underground and constituted a significant part of the guerrilla units, based in the Odessa catacombs.[3]. Below them, the former luxury liner SS Cap Arcona was laden with over 4,500 concentration camp prisoners who had been evacuated to the coast and at around 3pm, the Typhoons from the Second Tactical Air Force, launched their assault. In November 1984, Macmillan gave a much publicised speech in which he called the privatisation plans of the Thatcher government selling off the family silver, which made him into a hate figure for the "dry" Conservatives. [1][5], During the Russian Civil War (19171923), Cossack leaders and their governments generally sided with the White movement. Some documents relating to this particular incident remain classified and other have mysteriously disappeared. Tolstoy is confident that the handover of Krasnov and Shkuro in particular, and the officers at Lienz in general, was no blunder committed by some hard-pressed staff officer in a moment of stress, but a carefully planned operation The motive presumably was to co-operate with Soviet forces in Austria., Military officers ordered to enforce repatriation were often surprised at the alarm expressed by the refugees when they learned that they were to be shipped eastward. 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