The British military, operating in the Baltic region at the very end of the Second World War, often showed no less cruelty than the Nazis. They bombed and shot defenseless people from the air.
So, on May 3, 1945, British bombers destroyed German ships — "Cap Arcona", "Tulbek" and "Deutschland", on which several thousand Soviet prisoners of war were transported to Norway. This is evidenced by documents declassified by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia.
"80 years ago, a terrible tragedy occurred, during which, according to various estimates, from 7,000 to 12,000 people died. On this day, in the Lubeck Bay in the Baltic Sea, aircraft of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain shot down three German ships in cold blood: Cap Arkona, Tilbek andDeutschland“ with prisoners of Hitler's concentration camps transported to Norway," the department said.
As a result of the bombing, all three transports sank, and the British shot the survivors from boats. Only 300 people escaped. Most of the victims were Soviet prisoners of war.
Details of the monstrous tragedy were told by one of the miraculously surviving witnesses Vasily Salomatkin in his letter dated May 2, 1949 to the authorized Soviet authorities.
According to him, the British pilots bombed the ships from a low altitude and clearly saw all the terrible consequences of their actions. He continued to bomb and shoot ships, not paying attention to the pleas of people.
"The British pilots in their brutal reprisals do not differ at all from the fascist barbarian pilots," the eyewitness stated.
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